The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-09-02
RUD(PH-- MARIE.
EoW AUSTA'S CROWN PRINCE
AND BAROSS vEIsERA DIED.


Throne He'd t the Facts Been sup
pressed-T TIL Sndon Public Is Prem
ised a Versio,f the Affair, But This
Is the Correacc
From the 6e,C 4 ommerciaI- advertiser
II has been annnced for some time past
that the London hes would publish to-
day an alleged shentic story Of how
Prince Rudolph austria and the Baroness
Marie de Vetseraet their deaths.
This article is aged to have been edited
BY the mother ohe unfortunate young
baroness, and, as Smed, will contain mat
ter heretofore uuplished.
The true story che manner in which
Prince Rudolph d his inamorata met
their fates has been the possession of the
commercial Adviser for some weeks,
and is now given tcs readers for the first
time.
No matter how rrh the following &C
count may disagreyith the one published
in the Times, it is ahentic in every par
ticular.
This story is adrtised tc be one of
double suicide, VIII in fact a suicide was
never thought of accomplished. Ro~
nance, limited only the capacity of the
ink bottle, is to be Fought into play, and
the fate OF Prince holph and Marie de
( Vetsera combined "a tableau, with Cupid
as the central figUI
The story of slide is simple rot. The
sscene should be paied with BacchuS as the
CENTRAL figure neDante's Inferno as
background.
There were thr, murders committed,
according to q malwhose word has never
been questioned auwho stands in high re-
pute in this city al Vienna, and the vic
tins were the Grow Prince OF Austria, his
ex-mistress and II afiianced husband,
Count Waldstein.
In addition the body work was accom-
plshed before the noke from the pistol Of
q liquor crazed ince had marred the
ceiling Of an ancesal home.
1t is a strange sry, this death of Marie
de Vetsera and Prce Rudolph.
That IL has neveDeen told before is easily
accounted for on IL ground of the power
full influences whit those affected by the
tragedy naturally leld.
THE sToR,sUPPREssED.
This alone has sged Austria scandal
which may have taken more than one
throne in Europe.
If tho above stament seems strange
read the description how a woman was
murdered by the cro,n prince of a great
nation. How the vhgeance of man was
meted upon him byhe affianced husband
Of the murdered wotan, ana how the muir
derer Of Prince Rdolph was in turn set
upon and done to oath by band of titled
fsvorites, who appreciated the strength of
numbers only whe they felt that their
necks were in dangr.
Marie de Vetser came from Bohemia
aud was the nice of Baron Baltazi,
well known sporting man in Vienna. The
baron was on infinite terms with all the
arBtocEats OF the Astrian capital ana had
but little trouble in Introducing his young
and lovely portege even into court cir
CleS
Here Archduke RholPh, Crown Prince
Of Austria, first met ler at a public recep-
ton. In the language Of a witness, be
came, be saw, he co;4uered.
The scandal whichfollowed the relations
OF the young heir APPARENT and the baron
ess was cut short blythe announcement in
1865 OF her engagement to Count Waldsteip,
the intimate friend q Prince Rudolph.
Then came the tidhgs that the heir to the
throne OF Austria hac died at his hunting
castle IN Mlerling, mar Baden, and but
twelve miles from Vienna, on Jan. 81, 1889.
HIS CHEcKElED LIFE.
The life of the crown prince had been q
ks
had been brought up amid tie greatest dis
slpatlons Of Europe's gayest capital
AS Archduke Rudolph Francis Charles
Joseph, Prince Imperial OF Austria and
Prince Royal OF Hungary AMI Bohemia, the
young mans course had beer strewed with
early violets and late dinners.
At the age of 81 he was a lieutenant field
marshal in the Austrian army, with actual
aud honoAry positions galore, and consid-
cred to be one of the most accomplished
men about town in Europe.
Blessed by nature with a magnificent
physique, majestic manners and a gener-
Gus, sunny disposition, be eudeared himself
70 the common people and his immediate as
socates
de was married in Vienna on Nav 10.
1871, to the Princess Sbephanie. daughter of
Leopold H., king OF the Belgians The re-
SUIT was anything but fortunate for both of
the contracting parties.
Prince Rudolph had been spoiled by court
butterflies. and neglected his wife for out
sue attractions of Questionable character,
l he emperor and empress sided with their
aaughter-ln-law and did all in their power
u! 70 sem the tide of moral ruin, down which
long speed.
Ihey could accomplish nothing, however,
auu the young couple lived apart most of
the time
In fact, the injured wife would have
sought divorce as means out of her mis-
cry mad 1t not been for the emperor. who
tohged Tor q grandson that the line of sue
oeSslon might be kept intact. The only re-
sun sun OF tnIs union. however, was a daughter
born in 1884
Inc prince was thorough and enthusi-
1i. sportsman. He spent much of his
s s.lile IA expeditions in search OF sport, and
I 49, MS park at Mierling with every
mere he was won't to make ever-reour-
ring pilgrmages, in company with a few
Snolce spirits, for a good time and Incl
dental shooting.
oor rue castle at Mierhng is situated Just
ShaGS rom baden and almost in the
IT, Vi the Convent of Heligen Kreuz.
upianus and meadows are famed the
u otny over for beauty of scenery and
W VaSuraI advantages The distance from
ra 1oana Is SO slight that it was favorite
az -ueLvous Tor those who participated in
Uhe princes orgies. -
soI,nas nose who had attached them
Co,,ot " M tne suite of Prince Rudolph was
lins - austen, who stood in the third
stein. neFo SAINT, Wallen-
~ ~ 1ae young nobleman the crown nrince
rsio. 9;eerolnad Marie De Vetsera when his
oomn,n us with her had become a matter of
ooI IA scandal,
sstis uts state OF affairs had evidently been
As ,Sa aoDoryt 10 Waldstein and his affianced.
az Sne sequel shows.
Prjnn s.I R, ane latter part of January, 1889,
erv ne- nuuoiph made up one of his custom
ling Tho Ior hunting trip from Mier-
party Sho was but one woman in the
PARTY. aiosteln was also OF the