Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-02-02

Sensational Tale of an Attempted I.iason
 and Pursuit by an Averaging Husband.
 Shot Through Kis L5dge Window.
 VIENNA, Feb 2-It is officially announced that Crown Prince Rudolph committed sui eide by shooting himself in the head The weapon used was a revolver.
 The Weiner Zeitung says: Professor Wiederhofer, who performed the autopsy on the remains of Crown Prince Rudolph, found a large wound in the side of the head, which must have caused instant death. The revol- ver with one chamber discharged, was found on the bedside close to the right hand of the dead prince. The position in which it was found proves beyond doubt that the crown prince committed suicide. The pericranium was torn and the skull bones were partially shattered. The report of the revolver was heard by no one, the crown princes attend ants having loft the house to make prepara- tions for a hunting excursion"
 PARIS, Feb. 2.-It is positively stated here that the Crown Prince Rudolph mur- dered by one of the highest nobles of Austria, in revenge for the betrayal of his wife. The story goes that at grand ball given by the German ambassador the crown prince paid marked attention to the lady in question: Arrangements had been made to drive him to his shooting lodge immediately after the ball, the object being to enjoy the drive in the early morning hours.
 After the ball the prince met his com panions at the appointed place and told them of an engagement he had made with the lady They urged him to come with them, and warned him of the consequences of keeping IT., Irt, ever and insisted on keeping the tryst. He laughingly told them to cease their remon- strances, which he declared were quite use less, and after specially enjoining them to avoid mentioning to anyone that he had failed to keep to the original plan of driving out with them to the ShOotin, lodge, he dis appeared down the Heircngasse, waving in the air a pass key and singing snatches Of popular ballad.
 On Monday morning at o'clock one of the richest and most powerful nobles of the em- pire, man of princely rank, although not a member of any of the royal or reign ing families, in the act Of leaving his palace for the purpose of trying a young horse, which. reared in the imperial stud farms at Godolio, had just been presented to | him by the crown prince, when suddenly he | happened to catch sight of a man skulking in | the shadow of the wall just under the private | staircase leading up to his wife's apartments. l The prince sprang forward to catch the stranger, who endeavored to save himself by | flight The prince, who was teeter on foot,
 soon overlook him, and, clutching his cloak,
 tore it from him. To his horror he discovered
 that the recreant was no other than
 the heir to the throne. The latter, taking
 advantage of the momentary consternation | of his pursuer, sprang forward, and quickly 1 jumping into the plain two horse tiacre, which
 he invariably uses on such occasions, was | driven off before the wronged husband re-
 covered his senses.
 Reaching the shooting lodge at Meyerling
 at about II o'clock, the crown prince spent
 the remainder of the day out on the hills
 shooting, and made no mention of or reference
 to the unpleasant ending of his adventure tc
 his friends. On Tuesday his old valet, Johann
 who has attended him from his boyhood
 noticed that his master was very much wor
 ried, and oil asking why was told rather
 curtiy that it was nothing.
 On Wednesday morning the crown prince
 awoile very early and called to Johann tt
 open the blinds and bring him his letters. |
 should be mentioned that the shooting lodg,
 at Meyerling is a small two story building
 and that the crown prince occupied an apart
 ment on the ground floor, scarcely five fee
 above the level of the garden. On opening
 the blinds the valet renlar,,cei that there were
 two strange men in the garden, and men
 toned the fact to the archduke. The latter
 carelessly replied that they were prbably
 some of the beaters come for orders, aul then sitting up in his bed, propped the pillow III against the window, aud, leaning hs heae against it, commenced to read his letter. Johann then left the room to prepare til, , coffee, but, meeting Count Hoyos ir the hall said: , ''There are two men iu the garden whom I have never seen before and whoso looks , don't like"
 - At this moment a pistol shot was heard S All rushed to the crown princes room where a terrible spectacle presented itself 8 The window pane was smashed into a thou sand pieces, and the archduke lay dead in tn l bed, with the back of his skull shattered an 2 the brains scattered on the sheets
 The strangers ill the garden were seen t
 jump the fence and mount horses. Lik
 lightning they disappeared into the forest. no
 however, before Count Hoyos had recognize t in them the husband and the brother of tl princess with whom Rudolph hat! danced fir, n quently at the German embassy ball. @ Tie Parnell Trial.
 t LONDON, Feb. 2.-In the session of the Pa e nell commission Constable Wilkinson, c l. Rochdale testified that Patrick >N alsh, wh 5 was implicated in the Phoenix park murder t. had cashed checks, which were tracaable t .' the Parnell leaders. Inspector Jackson test '' fled that Walsh and other Invincibes had al
 tended league meetings at Bradford. Tn
 place of the meetings was searched and fort