St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-30
AUSTRIA'S DEAD HEIR
Story Of His Ill-Fated and
Wicked Intrigue With Ma-
rie Velzera.
The Family Of the Baroness
Publishes Facts Hitherto
Suppressed.
A Niece OF the Empress oi
Austria Is Shown Up in
Dark Colors.
Sorry Plight Of the Proud
Duke of Meeklenburg-
SehWerin.

NEW YORK, Aug. 29.-The World
will publish tomorrow exclusively in
America, but in conjunction with the
London Times, which holds the original
manuscript. the hitherto suppressed
pamphlet prepared by the family of the
late Baroness Marie Velzera, who was
found shot to death, together with heI
lover, Rudolph, crown prince of Austria,
at Mayerling, OH the 30th day of Janu,
ary, 1889. The pamphlet was to have
been published to the extent of fifty
copies, to be circulated among few
friends, in order to yindicate the MEM
ory of the unfortunate young lady:
but the Australian court, to whom il
was distasteful to have the crown prince
go down to poSterity as a murderer or
as suicide, caused the printed sheets
of the pamphlet to be seized in the pub
lisher's hands. The original manu-
script was secured from the family by
the London Times, and is now made
public by the World by special ar
rangement and simultaneously With
that paper. The pamphlet tells the
whole story in so circumstantial a man;
ner, and backed by autograph letters,
as tU leave no doubt as to its value as
An Historical Document.
1t gives a consecutive narrative of the
affair IN detail in such way that its
accuracy apparently cannot be called
into question. An important feature,
according to the mothers story, is the
infamous part played in the tragedy by
no less parsonage than the niece Of
the Empress of Austria. This distin-
guished lady'S actions are given with
the fullest detail, aud the pamphlet ac-
cuSes her of being not only the inter
mediary, but a blackmailer as we'll.
Baroness Marle'S last letters to her fam
lily are likewise made public, and the
story is told how fortune teller
was made to play mysteri-
Gus part ip the tragedy which
deprived the Austrian emperor
of his direct heir and the Velzera family
of a favorite daughter. Briefly sum
married., and as told in the young girls
letters, the story is that Baroness Marie
Velzera, 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
intruSted her secret to Countess Lar
isch, the empress of Austria's niece,
and this lady at once undertook to act
as gO-betWeen, while taking adYan-
tage of her knowledge of the state OF
affairs to levy blackmaiI from the prince.
At one time the mother of the girl
feared that
Something Was Anliss,
but Countess Larisch was ready with
some plausible tale. These facts are all
given in great detail in the mothers
pamphlet. At last the girl fed, by pre-
arrangement with the prince, and few
hours later her death was known by the
emperor, but not by the distracted
mother, who in vain impIored the chief
OF police and Count Taafe, the Austrian
premier, to cause a search to be insti-
tuted for her daughter The truth of
the double suicide or murder and sui
eide is at last definitely established by
this publication. The news of the
death was broken to the mother by the
empress of Austria herself The
pamphlet showed the princes mind
had long before been given to thoughts
of suicide, but that Marie did her best
to disSuade him from this fatal step. 1t
was not until both of them had fed that
she resolved to share his death. For
the first time is revealed the indignitieS
offered TO her dead bOdy-hoW she was
carted away in sitting position be-
tween her two uncles, even a coffin be-
Ing denied her relatives when moving
her; how her mother was prosecuted
and villified; how everything was done
to lay the blame on the girl, forms
narrowing story as told by the mother.
The alleged falSehoods circulated about
her are exposed and the daughters
dying messages are given.