Word: windisch
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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When the convicted ringleaders, Chief of Police Emmerich von Nadossy of Budapest and Prince Ludwig Windisch-Graetz, stood up for sentence the courtroom became a pandemonium of sobs, groans and cries. Momentarily the representatives of the Bank of France, the civil plaintiff, experienced a qualm lest their instant lynching impended. Then Chief von Nadossy spoke...
Prince Ludwig Windisch-Graetz interrupted: "No! I implore the Court to hold only me responsible! Thank God there will always be Hungarians willing to do even more for our country than forge a few thousand French francs...
...prying into the nature of these "motives." Instead he called another prisoner, a dapper little man with his hair cut in the German fashion, a nervous but determined young man, who clenched and brandished a cane in one hand while he gesticulated with the other. This was Prince Ludwig Windisch-Graetz, a descendant of the "Holy Roman Emperors...
...said Prince Ludwig Windisch-Graetz ; "this was no common crime, but part of a great patriotic fight .... I had not the honor to originate this gigantic scheme .... a circle, the members of which I shall not name, prepared it, and merely called on me for financial aid, which I gladly gave...
...Chief Counterfeiter Gerce. "It was the stupidity of Prince Windisch-Graetz which ruined us. . . . I made the paper we used myself, from German pulp; and the first 20,000 notes which I produced were not successful. . . . Prince Windisch-Graetz, however, insisted upon having them passed, and of course they were detected. . . . Later I raised our paper and technique to such a pitch of perfection that my last notes will continue to pass current in France indefinitely without detection...