Connecticut western news., 1886-06-23
BAVARIA'S MAD RULER.
KING LUDWIG THROWS HIMSELF
 INTO sTARNBERK LAKE.
The Physician Who Triod to Save Him also Drowned-The Deposed Kings AL leEed Design to Brutally Punish Count Holstein.

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 MUNICH, June 14-Ludwig, who was recent ly deposed from the Bavarian throne, com mitted suicide at 6 o'clock Sunday evening. He had gone out for promenade in the park of the Berg castle, accompanied by Dr. Gud- den, his physician. The kng suddenly threw himself into Starnberg Lake and was drowned. The physician jumped into the water to res- cue the king and was also drowned.
 The king left his castle at Hohenschwagen for Scloss Berg on Lake Stamberg. Groups of peasants saluted him along the route of his journey and some affecting incidents oc- cured. Many of the loyal mountaneers knelt in the roadway and loudly bewailed the mis- fortunes of their sovereign. The king re- sronded to their greetings mournfully but kindly. He was pale, and appeared weary and sheartened. His attendants watched him closely, having been warned by Ludwig's M self '''A' ''' ''' As p' W A'' '''
 It is now reported by members of the medi- cal commission who examined Ludwig that the late king had ordered the members of the ministerial delegation, headed by Count Hol- stein, who called upon him to procure his con- sent to regency, to be fogged until they bled, and then to have their eyes extracted. Before his death, the chief was spreading be- fore the common people of Bavaria that the kin's deposition was illegal. The people did not believe he was insane. Precautions had be,n taken to prevent the populace from ris- ing to restore the king,
 The story of tia tragedy is thus told:-1t was quarter to seven when the king and Dr. Gudden started together for stroll along the lake. No alarm was felt till half-past eight, when the guards, growing uneasy, went out with boats and torches to look for them. The search lasted several hours before any sign of the king was seen, and the guards had began to fear he had escaped The alarm was given, and Baron Washington was tels- graphed to at Munich asking instructions.
 At about eleven o'clock one of the searchers noticed footmarks on the bank. Soon after game keeper in the boat with Dr. Oveller saw two dark objects floating ill the lake in five feet of water, forty or fifty yards from land. Rowing towards them they discovered that they were the bodies of the King and Dr. Gud- den. They brought them ashore, stripped them, and with the help of the Kings warden and two gendarmes, who had once been hos pital nurses, made desperate efforts to restore animation.
 Marks of finger nails on the Doctors face and the fact that the Kings coat and overcoat struggle must have occurred; but whether, as was at first supposed, the Doctor lost his life in trying to save his patient, or whether, as is now suspected, the King, in a fit of vengeful madness, pulled him into the water with him, remains a mystery
 
 by the mute evidence of the Kings watch, which had stopped at six minutes tosseven.
 When the bodies were landed no trace of life was perceptible. Hoping against hope, the attendants continued their attempts to pro- duce artificial respiration, but in vain. At midnight their efforts were abandoned.
 Otho Frederick Wilhelm, who attained the throne of Bavaria and became Ludwig II, on the death of his father, Maximillian IT,, in 1864, was born in 1S45. He inherited in an ex. 4lo %o~ ~&o that made his grandfather's reign significant one for Bavaria. Ludwg's youth was passed in seclusion. On his accession to the throne he showed his liking for gayer life in build ing elegant palaces in which he enjoyed the boyish sports he was deprived of in his child hood. The most expensive Of these palaces was in the Ober Ammergau mountains. It was built in ]mtation of the palace of Yer sailles. Gilt balconies, expensive Gobelin ta- pestrles glltterlng with gems marble statues ln gold nlches, chandeliers studded with dia- monds and stoves ornamented with agates were among it's costly features. Such expen- ees as these destroyed the kings private es- tates, and for several years he had been at the mercy of money lenders. These latter recent. ly foreclosed on some of the kings property, and the government to save itself from bank rupcy, refused to make Ludwig any further advances. The dead kings love of music and the drama was as e1travagantly manifested aa was his tastes for fine architecture, and his fa-
 
 other great musicians. In return for his fa- vors these artists were summoned at midnight or at any time 1t suited the kings eccentric pleasure, to minister to his delight. About two years ago King Ludwig dis missed all of his body servants, and since then only troop of light cavalry have been his at tendants. They have followed him ill his wild night rides into the mountains or from town to town in a sort of steeple-chase on wheels Ludwig's only brother, Othon, three years ol. der than the dead king, has been insane for several years.
 As regards the autopsy held on the remains, the physicians declare that the brain and | membranes of the brain of the late king were in highly diseased state, resulting partly from abnormal development and partly from inflammation at different stages ot that de- velopment.
 So much concern is shown at the kings death that Dr. 6udden's has been trt ated as 8 secondary matter. He left six children. Two sons are artists-one in Frankfort and the other in Munich. A third son is student in Burghauseu. The el;est daughter is the wife of Dr. Grashey, who worked with him on the kings case. Another is married and lives in Nuremberg. The third is also married and lives in America.
 Dr. Gudden some think, must have ssrug- gled with the king as much three hours in the water, the bodies were only found al
 ten, with animation left. o hers have con-
 long, and say that the king and Dr. Gudden
 were not alive when found, and that the hnt- tering movement of the jaw was mechanical, caused by the air escaping from the bed es. Dr. Gudden's nose is broken and there are
 very deep marks of finger nails down the
 right side of the face and down the nose and on the forehead; his face likewise bears marks of . severe blow. The nail of the kings mid
 dic finger on the right hand is half torn off His face had no marks.