The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-23
DISAPPEARANCE
OF A PRINCESS
Suppressed Excitement in All
the Courts of Europe.
HER HUSBAND WAS TOO GAY
a PRETTY ACTRESS FIGURES IN
THE CASE.

Dresden, Saxony, Dee. 22--The crown
princess OF Saxony fed from her home
on the night of Dec. IL The Dresdener
Journal says today:
The princess. in a state of intense
mental excitement suddenly deserted
her family at~.Salzburg and went
abroad. The Saxon court functions for
the winter. including the New Years
reception. have been Cancelled"
The foregoing paragraph in today's
official journal, which was inserted by
order OF the king and csawn prince OF
Saxony, has turned into truth what
for several days past has been regard
ed as an incredible tale The crown
princess OF Saxony, surrounded by her
ladles-in-waiting and numerous at
tendants and servants, has vanished 50
utterly that the police of every king
dom in Europe have for ten days been
unable to trace her. The official an
nouncement was in order TO obtain the
aid of the general public in finding her.
and because the court fiction that she
preferred TO remain in retirement at
Salzburg rather than 10 return to her
husband and children at Dresden can
not longer be maintained.
Princess self-willed.
Accompanied by the crown prince,
the princess went to the castle of En-
perOr Francis Joseph. near Salzburg, a
month ago. A week after their arrival
at the castle the prince broke his leg
while hunting and was brought back
/ to Dresden. The princess. however, re-
NAMED at the castle. Why she did so
the people of the court did not know
except that with gloomy tenacity the
princess usually does what she pIeases.
For a little while this explanation suf-
4 need; then fragments of gossip began
TO reach Dresden. It was said that the
princess had surrendered herself to
periods of nervous excitement and that
her eecentricities of department caused
much concern TO her suite and to some
of her Austrian kinsfolk. who were
staying in the castle with her 1t is
now believed that she was under sur
veillance, and that if this is true, it
makes her disappearance the more ex-
traOrdinary.
The narrative of the events at SaIz-
burg during the night of Dec. II-12, as
told in Dresden, is that the princess,
who appeared TO be in an unusually
tranquil mood. retired before II O'Clock.
Three hours later, when a maid looked
IN the room, something in the appear
ance of the bed prompted her to go
closer and examine it.
Dummy Figure Found
Instead of the princess. the maid per
ceived a dummy figure. She awakened
the ladies-ln- waiting and the latter.
with other members of the princess
suite, searched all the neighboring
apartments of the entire castle. and
finally the grounds of the castle, for
the princess, but no trace of the miss
ing woman was found.
At dawn the police of SaIzburg were
informed of the disappearance and in
ouiries were made throughout the
whole countryside, but with no tan
gible result. A number of what had
seemed 10 be traces of the princess were
shown to be without foundation, upon
careful examination by the police. The
inquiry by the end of that day had
extended to all parts of the kingdom
of Saxony- and, on authority from
Dresden. by the end of the second day
to all of Europe. The theory of sui
eide was suggested and a fruitless
search for the princess body has been
made, although ponds and other
bodies of water in the vicinity of the
castle have been dragged without re-
suit
The disappearance of the princess
doubtless viii cause the circulation Of
many stories. It is already related
that she eloped, but inquiries made
here have brought out nothing to sub
stantiate or support this statement.