The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-02-28
PRINCE RUDOLPH.
The Story of the Affair That Led to his
Death.
From the Nelo York World.

From the NeIC York World.
l have hitherto ignored the chr0niq1te
ScanddteltSe of the princes life. They
have furnished the soto roce conversation
of salons with risky gossip for years. The
ways of the Vienna court are illustrated by
a st Dry told of a scene between Stephanie
the unloved wife, and the recreant husband
and the kaiser making peace and preaching
homily in this wise: Eyes, Stephanie, you
are quite right" quoth the kaiser. 'Ru-
doiph must never more see the Count
ess -; | forbid him to. And you,
Sbephanie, must not watch Rudolph so
closely. IL you never had him spied upon,
you would never learn all these unpleasant
stories and so never have your peace of
mind disturbed. "
THE BARONESS VETSCHERA.
Rudolph met his fate one day in the per
son of a shy young girl of wonderful beau
ty, who, more than this, was an lmpulsive,
generous and intellectual woman. She was
the daughter of a baroness vetschera, who,
before marrying an Obedient employee of
the foreign office, had had a history, the
particulars of which are now happily for
gotten. The baroness was not "hOE fdhign
the manner in which her title was obtained
being of oubtful honor. But the beauty
or her daughter, and the favor it found in
princely eyes, broke down the barrier which
the harsh chancellor, if so disposed, might
have raised and in a twInkllng of the eye
the whole family was declared ''hOf, fdhig,n
and the husband of the baroness-merely a
clerk, a supple Dalmaton Greek-became a
chief of department in the foreign Office
The crown princ9 pursued the young girl
with every possible attention and found an
ally in the young lady's mother, who had
no objections to getting into the "Almauach
de Gotha" even though it were by the back
door.
As sentimantalist, l would like to be-
lieve-and the sequel OF the story seems to
indicate it-that the young woman lear ed
to love the prince for his own sake. The
courtiers saw the matter was serious and
found it convenient to fawn around the new
power. The scandal became notorious, but
the crown princess never complained. She
probably felt less Inundated than when
displaced by nimble ecuyere or plump
soubrette. Baroness Vetschera's influence
upon the crown prince Is declared to nave
been wholly for good. Her mother undoubt-
eddy made money while the sun Of her
daughters favor was in its zenith. AS for
the daughter, she asked for nothing.
QUEER TRIPS TO PARIS.
Her disappearance from the Prater were
synchronous with tire crown princes hunt
ing tours in Styria, Pennsylvania, and other
distant corners of the empire. But it is now
well established that the crown prince
never attended these hunting parties; that
his friends the Duke of Coburg and Count
Hoyos guarded his secret well, and that
the prince, during some Of these absences,
was in Paris with the baroness Many
Austrians claim to have seen him at the
opera, ali (of course) the prominent hOtelieqs
claim to have lodged the young couple; but
strangest of all is the story which the radi-
cal Gem 9Qcelu tells,
zone day last winter" said the doctor,
/ was about to proceed to the chamber
when young man who spoke good English,
but WITH a marked German accent, called,
and when ushered in said he wished to in
terview me for an American paper. | told
him my lnvariable rule about interview
never to give them. He seemed very much
distresssd and asked if | would not explain
TO him personally the radical programme.
The Young mans charming manner aud in
tellec,ual interest pleased me, and. trusting
him implicitly, / talked for half an hour
about our objects and aims. When | had
finished, for some moments he seemed lost
in thought and then said, unconsciously:
"'God knows am with you in many
thin gs.
"Ilooked up surprised; the Young man
blushed and hastily left. Some weeks
later. while walking on the Boulevard, /
stumbled upon a photograph Of the young
crown prince. There l saw, feature for
feature the mysterious correspondent of
an American paper.
TIE courtiers in Vienna waited in vain
for the wane Of the princes passion. Spring
followed winter and summer spring. win
ter came again, and the beautiful Wiener
Wald, in which the Schlo.s of Meierhng
stands, was bright with fall foliage OF red
and green and gold, aud the silken cords
which bound the young couple showed no
sigrs Of tension or of relaxation.
There were probably no witnesses to the
scene, and so one of the most interesting
chapters IN the heart history Of man must
20 without exact record. The scene, |
mean which took place some two months
ago in the old burg on the Ring Strasse
which is silent with so many secrets aud is
50 full of closeted skeletons-I mean the
scene bet ween the imperial father and the
princely son, upon which subsequent events
have cast reflective light.
The day--we will never know the day,
but the kaiser will never forget 1.-THE
crown prince came and told his father that