The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-12-24
MYSTERY Is
CLEARED 0P
krchduke Leopold Ferdinand
RenOunceS His Rank
TO WE'D PRINCESS LOUISE
Who Has Been Located At
Vienna.

Vienna, Dec. 29.-Archduke Leopold Fer
dinaRd intends TO take the name OF Leo
pold Woolaing. Besides formally re-
Ecuncing his rank and dignit6s as mem
Der of the imperial house, the archduke
has returned all his orders and decora-
ticns, including that of the Golden Fleece,
and has resigned his commission IN the
Austrian army. II is expected that he
viii marry his Viennese Companion; his
relatives prevented hirn from taking this
step moreanaticaiIy several months ago
he archduke Was at one tine secretly
cetrothed to Donna Elvira, the second
daughter of Don Carlos, who e!oyeo with
Count F1hppo tolchi in slSS5. lie is re-
garoed as weak mentally. He processes
IL extreme radical and almost anarch-
istic views.
Dresden, Saxony, Dec. 23.-King George
and the Grown Prince Frederick know
where the Crown Princess Louise mas
sought refuge, but they have decided to
accept the estrangement OF the princess
and her husband as irrepairable. They
lave made the cabinet priyy to the cir
cumstances of the Princess Frederick, as
they See them, and a decree of divorce is
talked of as a necessary sequence to the
princess resolution to leave the court for
ever.
This determination the princess an
ncunced to her husband early in Novem-
Der, after one of their frequent violent
scenes. She also confded her intention 70
separate herself utterly from the court
hall and its wretchedness' to two or
three of her intimate friends, and dis
cussed with them the impoSsibility Of
her longer enduring the artificial ETH
Quette of the court and the forced COM
panionship of a man who was lothsome
to her"
The princess wrote to her mother at the
end of November that it was her par
pose to leave the crown prince and give
up the prospect of the queenship. which,
instead of being attractive, the princess
frequently said was detestable TO her
She formally told members of her entour-
age that she was going to visit her par
ents at Salesburg. The letter of the
princess to her mother brought the arch
duhess Immediately to Dresden She i'm
plored her daughter to reconsider her de-
termination and make the best of an I'M
pleasant situation for the sake OF her
children, and see as little of the crown
prince as permissible. The princess re-
piled, according to one of her confidants,
that she would see nothing of that
beast" that the tutelage of her children
vas largely taken out of her hands, and
that she could not bear TO see them spoil |
ed by the "hypocrites of the court" |
What she complained OF in the prince was |
his intemperance. his infideiities and as
her partisans affirm, his cruelty of dispo- /
sition. They affirm that he has had for
years a liason with an actress named
Basic. and 1t is creditably reported that
al review of troops at Grmma, a couple
or years ago, the prince fell from his
horse, intoxicated, in front of his regi-
ment. However true these incidents may
be. the court and all Dresden knew that
a chasm separated the affections OF the !
crown princess from the crown prince. /
Though he seemingly had genuine admit /
ration for his wife the prince did his /
share of guarding and often tried to i'm I
pose his will upon her, but he always |
Hoped that she would in the end humble |
herself.
Vienna. Dec. 2S.-The flight Of the crown |
princess of Saxony is the absorbing topic /
o. the day here. All kinds of sensational 4
reports are in circulation. When she left 7
Salesburg accompanied by her brother.
Archduke Leopold Ferdinand, the princess
went to Munich. where a French tutor
awaited her Her brother was also joined
there by beautiful Viennese woman ard
the two couples proceeded to Brussels
and thence 10 Geneva.
1t appears that when the crown prince
returned recently to Dresden. after his
hunting accident in the Tyrol. he discover .
ed a secret. correspondence exchanged be-
tween the princess and the French tutor.
whose former relations With her had Gre
ated a scandal resulting IN the tutors eX-
pulsion from Saxony. Besides disclosing
the couples relations the letters revealed
another scandal. Immediately afterwa-d
the princess left her horne and went 10
Salesburg. The fact that she took trunk
filed with jewery ard other valuables in
dicates that she was prepsred -for~.1n
emergency. Il is reported that Archduke
leopold Ferdinand has written to En-
pe-or Francis Joseph renouncing his rank
ana djguities as = member 81 the imperial
house. saying he Vnl become a civil sub
3eet The VII Die Of the archduke's career
is redolent with scandal, DATING from the
time when he started 10 accompany the
heir to the throne on tour Of the world.
lie only got as far as Colombo, where
h was obliged to leave the ship en- ac-
count of mis- seaadalous behavior. The
aTohduke has Stree been mixed up in
number OF aff9srs and was confined for
some months in an asylum
The Tageblatts Dresdeii Correspondent
sSys:
The difficulty between the princely
couple dates from prior 70 K'ng Ahert's
death. They had several painful scenes
during the kinss Illness"
Il is reported hove that the crown
princes recent accident ostens;bly the
breaking OF one Of his legs while hunt
ing In the Bavarian mountains near
SALISBURY was an inventiaa the fact
being that ne had a nghh> with his
hrother-in-law. Archduke Leopold Eerdi-
nand. and the crown prince was so badly !
handled that he had to take 10 his bed
The Saxon ministers say the affair is .
definitely closed. so fSr as the Dresden
Court is concerned.
The letters OF the crown princess have
been seized. She IS expected 10 give birth ]
t. child in May ,