The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-09-21
LUDWIG OF BAVARIA.

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Bavaria would be mysterious mo- longer.
aays the Pittsburg Dtspafch, IL the story OF
J. Erlanger, of Forbes street, this city, In
accredited. This man was for nearly four
pears Kin Lutlwig's private b~ody-guard.
He claims that during all that time he was
never over mn hour AWAY from the royal
p~ersonage and he asserts no can make an
affidavit to all he says. ErlanRcr was born
In the Bavarian mountains. He entered
the Royal Life guards rs n private soldier,
hat one day on parade Ludwig III. was at
tracted by the handsome young soldier
and singled him out from the regiment To
attend upon him at his castle, near the
lake at MIR. while
at the house of a friend on Gist street last
evening told the following story:
"First of all. let me tell you that Ludwig
III. was not mad al all. He was a. sane
as ever any man was. He was the soul OF
goodness. IL is true he Withdrew from the
society of thu world and preferred To live
by himself. But he did not do that be-
cltise he hated the world or the people,
but because he had to hide himself tai es-
cane the dagger OF some mysterious assas-
sin or the pistol of u hired murderer.
"The cause of all his trouble can he
enemy of Bismarck and he refused to
marry n woman who had been reiegated
"a him by royal relatives. He was i'm a
war i'm Berlin. Various innovations were
proposed by Bismark to be introduced i'm
10 the Bavarian army, but Ludwig II.
u AYE NIUStN VI lftshtD tthsttts u NV
rally he was always at variance with Bis
mark, and several of the pet schemes of
she iron had to he abandoned
because King Ludwig refused to he "a party
so them. For that reason several conspir-
acies were formed tn remove the king i'm
some way. { first the m~achinery was set
IN work to replace the trlsty Bayarian SER
wants surrounding the king 10y Pr'issians.
Then a physician was Obtained tai
Nobody had ever before Thought such "a
him necessary, hut his enemies sue
ceesied. and u doctor, | forget his name,
next move was To have him placed I'm "a
asylum. The plans had been well
laid. The carriage which was To carry
che gate Of the royal castle, when the plot
was discovered and the king refused tn go
out. 1 remember the day well. Several
of us were standing around his majesty
when the announcement was made that
the carriage was awaiting to take him for
u drive. But no sooner had the door
closed again than Baron Won Zeckingcn,
the kings second physician, came i'm. He
implored Ludwig not to- GO ont and
revealed the whole plot. The king arose
end quietly walking over to one of us,
saying: command that carriage To be
AXE away again, do not care tai drive
THAT settled it. The evil had been
~vertesi that time. hut his enemies were
not to he daunted by one failure. Baron
i'm the palace, and soon gained the conf
dence Of the king. The meshes were 81
lently hut cunningly woven by this man,
Prussia. How he succeeded the world
knows, hut nobody thought the willy baron
meant to drown the king. However. the
"On the morning of that fatal day ON
which the body OF our beloved king was
drawn from the lake. Baron kuddcr gave
his order To the guards: Unless the
king makes n special request for your
attendance, let him GO unaccompanied
on his walk through the 9r%1S 1, u.,,
out. never To return alive. was AT the
lake when they dragged his body from the
Sass. Of Dr. IRS sa sinT,s . hana had IN " ad siEGns
Ia that the lapel of the doctor's coat was
torn of and his face was scratched in sew
that a sever, struggle had taken place.
You must remember that the king was a
very strong mnn. He measured six feet
No sooner had va seen this sight than we
knew hat there had not been u suicide or
AN accidental death, but u foul assasina-
ton.
'The only rsslecming feature in the
whole affair was that the murderer had
died with his victim. Preparations were
kept a secret. The attendants were inn
mediately discharged. A few days after
the catastrophe "a number of us were sing-
ing i'm a beer den. when one OF our num-
her openly stated that the king had been
assassinated. A few minutes later he was
arrested and has never been heard of
since. This was "a warning to the rest and
We escaped. I left the country without "a
passport. We had at first intended to
make the whole thing public, but showing
that We would all bc imprisoned without
gaining our point We abandoned that
plan"
"But you have not explained to me why
the king so strenuously refused to marry"
"Simply for this reason: The king was
i'm love with "a miller's beautiful daughter
and he would not give her up tn please
his mother. His family wanted him
to marry the Princess Won Darxcs, a lady
OF the royal house of Bavaria, hut he Il Il
not want her and that settled it,"
DO you know anything about his rs.la-
tionship with the miller's daughter:
II know all about t.. Often have I
gone Ia her house. with baskets of lowers.
wine, fruit, and other d~elicacies for the
young lady. She WAS the most beautiful
girl l ever saw. The king became ac-
quainted with her while hunting i'm the Bu-
varian Alps. Her father had "a Windmill
ON the top of IA hill, about five miles from
the Starnberg castle. He was lame and
walked with "a crutch. sd we called hint he
Miller" The young lady was
born May "A, lisa. She was tall and dark.
with deep, dreamy, black eyes. She had
a charitable gift of writing poetry, and I
had "a whole volume of verse written by
her. The king was p~assionately fond of
her, and had il not been for the fact that
he would have angcrssl all the crowned
heads Of Europe lac would have married.
Her first name was E~llapcnia. 4 do not
remember her other name, because We
always called her Fraeulcin or Ellapenia.
the stories that have been told