The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-09-05
AS TOLD BY The MOTHER OF THE LADY.
A Niece of the Empress of Austria
Mixed up With the Tragic
Affair.
The Whole to be Published Simultan-
eOusly i'm America and in
London.
AN INTERESTING PA MPHIET.
Giving the Particulars of the Killing of
two Scions of Nobility

Giving the Particulars of the Killing ol
two scions of Nobility
New York. Aug. 29.-The World will
publish tomorrow exclusively in America
but in conjunction with the London
Times, which holds the original manu-.
script. of the hitherto suppressed pam.
phlet prepared by the family of the late
Baronne Marie Velzera, who was found
shot to death together with her lover,
Rudolph, crown prince of Austria. at
Mayerling, on the Both of January. 1889.
The pamphlet was to have been pub
lished to the extent of fifty copies to be
circulated among a few friends in order
to vindicate the memory of the %unfortu-
nate young lady. But the Austrian
court. to whom it was distasteful to have
the crown prince 60 down to posterity as
a murderer or to suicide, caused the
printed sheets of the pamphlet to be
seized in the publishers hands. but the
original manuscript was secured from
the family by the London Times and is
now made public by the World by spec
ial arrangement and simultaneously
with that paper.
The pamphlet tells the whole story in
a circumstantial manner and backed by
autograph letters as to leave no doubt as
to its value as a historical document. 1t
gives a consecutive narrative of the affair
in a detailed way that its accuracy APP
parently can not be called into question.
An important feature, according to the
mothers story, is the infamous part
played in the tragedy by no less a per-
sonage than the niece of the empress of
Austria. This distinguished lady's ac-
tons are given with the fullest of detail
and the pamphlet accuses her of being
not only an intermediary but a black
mailer as well. The baroness
Marie's last letters to her family, and
made public, and a story is told
of how a fortune teller was made to play
a mysterious part in the tragedy which
deprived the Austrian emperor of his
direct heir and the Nelzera family of a
.favorite daughter.
Briefly summarized and as told in the
young girls letters. the story is that the
baroness Marie Velzera, then II years
old, fell in love at first sight with the
prince, and that she frequently
met him in an ordinary social way. Fin
ally she entrusted her secret to the
Countess Larisch, the Empress of Aus
tria's niece, and this lady at once under
took to act as a gO-between, while taking
advantage of her knowledge of the state
Of affairs to levy blackmail from the
prince. At this time the mother of the
girl was afraid that something was
amiss but the countess Larisch was
ready with some plausible tale. The
of all this are given in great detail
the mothers pamphlet. At last she
He'd by Encouragement with the prince
and a few hours later her death was
to the emperor but not to the
distracted mother who in vain implored
the chief of police and Count Tatfe, the
premier, to cause a search to
be instituted for her daughter.
The truth of the double suicide or
and suicide is at last definitely
established by this publication. The
of her death was broken to her
mother by the empress of Austria her
self. The pamphlet showed that the
mind had long before been given
thoughts of suicide, but that Marie
lid her best to dissuade him from this
'atal step. 1t was not until both of
hem had fled that she resolved to share
lis death.
For the first time is revealed the in
iignities offered to her dead body. How
he was carried away in a sitting posture
her two %uncles, ever a coffin
'eing denied her relatives when moving
Ter; how her mother was prosecuted
nd vilitied; how everything was done
O lay the blame on the girl forms a har-
owing story as told by her mother. AL
eyed f~alsehOods circulated about her
re exposed, and the daughters dying
Messages are given.