Arizona republican., 1899-04-24

that of forgiveness and generosity to-
 ward their most cruel enemies. |
 The death of Hector Baltazzi of con- gestion of the brain, at Vienna, serves
 to recall the part played by his brother | in that Austrian tragedy that culmi-
 mated in the suicide of Crown Prince | Rudolph at Meyerling Henry Bai-
 tazzi, like Hector and Aristides, was brother Of the widowed Baroness Vet
 zera, and uncle, therefore, of that l Baroness Marie whose own suicide by means of poison led the crown prince l to blow his own brains out Henry Raltazzi, at the request Of his sister, 1 followed his niece, Baroness Marie, to Meyerling, where he attempted to break in upon the privacy of the crown prince, with the object of bring ing the girl back to Vienna. Whether he reached the crown prince or nos
 cannot Ee stated with any degree of certainty. But the fact remains that during the course of a violent alter
 cation in the little hunting box at Mey6rling he was shot down, receiv- ing a severe and dangerous wound in the stomach. It has never been made quite clear as to whether it was the crown prince himsclf, or his friend and follower, Count Joseph Hoyos, who did the shooting. But the general De-
 lief is that it was the count who in- fiicted the wound and that he shot in self-defenSe.
 Shortly after the shooting an aged
 priest from the neighboring church was summoned to the hunting bCz, and subsequently the wounded man was conveyed by the priest and by one of
 the crown princes servants to the neighboring little town Of Baden, where he was cared for secretly until he succumbed there to his wound shortly afterward.
 The official date of Henry Baltazzi's death at Baden is given as the 18th of April, 1889, nearly ten weeks after the shooting. But it is unlikely in the ex- treme that he survived so long. h. deed, there is every reason to believe that he succumbed early in February, all the more as the transfer of his body together with that of his niece, Baror- ess Marie, to the family vault of the Vetzcras, from the churchyard at Mey- orling, took place during the last nights of March.
 The only thing that can be stated positively is that Henry Baltazzi pro- ceeded to Meyerling on the day before the self-GestructiCn of his niece and of the crown prince, and that he sue cumbed shortly afterward at Baden or in the neighborhood of Meyerling, to a bullet wound in the abdomen That Count Hoyos should never have b9en called upon by the law officers to explain the share which he is be- lieved to have had in Henry Baltazzis death can only be explained by the fac1 that he satisfied the emperor and the minister of the imperial household that he had shot Baltazzi in self-de- fense. Until the time of this tragedy the Baltazzis were conspicuous in Aus trian society. True, they did net sorm part of the court circles, from which they were debarred by reason Of their levantine birth and their lack Of gene alogical qualifications. But they were conspicuous in all sporting matters and leading members of the jccKey club. This was particularly the case with Hector. whose death has jusL taken place. and who was the most d. minutive Of all the brothers. He was married formerly to Countess Ugarte, daughter of the former Austrian en- vOy to the court of Wurtemterg, q woman who was not only possessed Of extraordinary beauty, but was like wise Ona of the most superb horse women in the world. She welded Hector for the sake of h1s ea1th, and likewise owing to his devotion to the turf. But shortly after the tragedy of Meyerling she secured a separation from him, and s0Cn afterward he was forced out of the jockey club nominally in consequence of the financial diff culties in which he had involved it's kitchen committee, but in reality ow- ing to the part which his family had played in connection with the Meyer ling tragedy.
 Few will mourn his loss. Indeed, for the las, few years he may be said to have vanished from public ken at Vienna, where he was once, in spita of his diminutive stature, a very con- spicuous ersonage.-Marquise de Fon- tenoy in Washington Post.