Chapter 60 Section 9

Prince Alexander listened to the "advice" of the German maid in a very gentlemanly manner.In a house like von Prowe, who employs a large number of people, it is nothing to complain about a servant's criticism of a certain master.Maria finally said that she knew that in her own capacity, she should not have intervened in the affairs of the master and his wife.Alexander thought, why not me?In any case, Cross is not the prince's biological father, and for so many years, the siblings have always called their stepfather by his first name, so it's better to say less. In a blink of an eye, in late February 1980, according to Maria Singlaham’s testimony to the court, one day, in her apartment on Fifth Avenue in New York, “I brought breakfast to my wife, who was so weak that she couldn’t help herself. Sit up... I told my husband that he said the hamburger Madam ate the night before was too greasy to be so, but I don't believe it..." Maria said Sunny was sick again, and Cross said it was all right. "The next day, I was cleaning out a closet. It was originally Mr.'s closet, and I didn't care about it, but Mrs. always put her own things in it... I saw an open travel bag, Mr. Every time I go from New York to Newport, or from Newport to New York, I use this bag to carry his belongings... There is a small black leather case in the bag, similar to the kind that men hold electric razors , I was curious, so I opened it... I know this violates my professional ethics, I can't explain why I did this, but, I opened it..."

Inside the box were several small medicine bottles filled with various colored pills, powders and pasty liquids.According to Maria, some of the vials had the patient's name as Klos von Pro, and others that Maria had never heard of. When Prince Alexander returned from Providence at the weekend, Maria couldn't wait to show him the casket and the vial.Alexander is still a young master of "a gentleman stays away from the kitchen", only expressing "It is indeed a bit suspicious, but to be honest, Maria, I really don't know what these are for, or what I should use them for... "

Maria had to go to Princess Anne Lorraine, who was living in another apartment in the same building after her return from Europe.Cross went to work.Anne Rowling asked Mariah to take the black leather case to her room, and the two women copied the labels on the medicine bottles, took out some powder and paste, and quietly sent them to Sunny von Prow's private doctor in New York. Chad Stoke.That date was Tuesday, March 4, according to transcripts filed in court two years later. A few days later, the results came out.A light yellow paste was identified as diazepam, and the white powder was a sedative called "secobarbital". Because of its strong anesthetic effect, it was listed as a third-class drug in some parts of the world, such as Taiwan Province of China. High-grade drugs, the local smuggling group commonly known as its "red".

Yes, Dr. Stoke told Anne Rowling that he had prescribed these medicines to Sunny, but the problem was that the Valium and Secobarbital he prescribed were pills, and there were only pills for those two medicines on the market .Who would go to the trouble of grinding a pill into powder and making a paste?Or, did they come from another source, such as through some illegal channels? So far, Maria's intentions have become very clear. She is proving to the princess and the doctor that someone may be harming Sunny. Later in court, one of the points of contention between the prosecution and the defense was, since this matter was so important and related to Sunny von Pro's life, why didn't anyone tell her herself?

Maria Singlaham said: "A servant is not supposed to have a tongue." The von Osberg siblings said: "Mother knows, she will drive us out of the house." It was also Sunny’s close friend Ruth Flood who said: “Sonny had a failed marriage once, and she doesn’t want to have a second one...No matter how she feels or what her situation is, at least, she doesn’t Hope, and even very taboo others to discuss her relationship with her husband."