Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-08-31

The Suicide OF Aastria's Crown Prince and
Baronne Marie de Netzera.

Baronnc Marie de NetZera.
The New York World publishes the story pre-
pared by the mother OF TIE late Baronne Mario
Vetzera. who was found shot to death, together
with her lover. the Crown Prince Rudolph of
Austria. at Mayerling. January 80, 1889. The
account Of this tragedy. and the circumstances
leading up TO it. formed the contents of pam
phlet which was to have been published to the
extent Of fifty copies. to be circulated among a
few friends in order TO vindicate the memory
of the unfor :unate young lady.
But the Austrian court, to whom ii was dis
tasteful to have the crown prince go down to
rOsterity as a murderer or as a suicide. caused
the printed sheets of the pamphlet to be seized
In the publisher hands The original manu-
script was secured from the family by the Lon
don TW,eS. The pamphlet tells the whole story
In clrcu.nstantial manner. backed by auto
graph letters. II gives consecutive narrative
o. the affair in so detailed way that its ac-
cCracy apparently cannot be called into qucs-
ton.
An important feature. according to the
mother story, is the infamous part PLAYED in
the tragedy by no less parsonage than the
niece of the Impress OF Austria. This distin-
gulshed lady actions are given with the fulies t
of detail. and the pamphlet accuses her of be-
ing not only the intermediary, but a black
mailer as well. Baronne Mare's last letters to
her family are likewise made public, and the
story is told how fortune teller was made to
play a mysterious part i'll the tragedy.
Briefly summarized. and as told in the Young
girls letters. the story is that Baronne Marie
Netzern. then seventeen years old, fell in love
at first sight with the crown prince. and that she
frequently met him in the ordinary social way
Finally she entrusted her secret to Countess
Larisch, the Empress of Austria's niece. and
this lady al once undertook 10 act as a go
between. while taking advantage of her knowl-
edge of the state OF affairs to levy blackmail
from the prince.
At one time the mother OF the girl suspected
that something was aniss. but Countess Larisch
was ready with some plausible tale. The facts
81 all this are given IL great detail in the
mothers pamphlet.
At last the giN fed to Mayerling by pre-
arrangement with the prince and a few hours
later her death was known by the emperor, but
not by the distracted mother, who In vain i'm
plored the chief Of police and Count Taafe the
Austrian premier, 70 cause a search TO be in
stltuteG for her daughter. The truth of the
double suicide or murder and suicide il at
last definitely established by this publication.
Inc news OF the death broken to the
mother b. the Empress Of Austria herself
The pamphlet shows that the princes mind
had long before been given to thoughts of sui
clce. but that Marie did her best to dissuade
him from this fata! step. 1t was not until hope
for both of thom had He'd that she resolved 10
share his death.
Gor tho tirst time is revealed the indignities
offered to her dead body. How she was carted
away IN sitting posture between her two I'M
cles. even coffin being denied her relatives
when moving her. how hey mother was perse-
euied and villitied. how everything was done to
lay the blame on the girl forms u narrowing
story as told by the mother. The alleged false
moods Circulated about her are exposed.