Delaware gazette and state journal., 1902-12-25
CROWN PRINCESS
FLIGHT AT NIGHT
The Wife Of the Crown Prince Of
SaIony DISAPPEARED December
itth, and Court Circles
Are Greatly Asitated.
SOCIAL EVENTS DECLARED OFF
Husband Has Discovered Her
Whereabouts.
ESTRANGEMENT BEYOND PREPARATION

Dresden, Saxony, Dec. 9a.-Kine
George and Crown Prince Frederick
know where Grown Princess Louise
has sought refuge, but they lave de-
cided to accept the estrangement of the
Princess and her husband 40 irrepara
bile. They have made the cabinet privy
to the circumstances Of the Princess'
Hight as they See them, and decree
OF divorce Is talked OF as necessar,
sequence to the Prircess' resolution to
leave the court forever.
The Grown Princess Of Saxony fed
from her home on the night of Decem-
ber llth. Tho DresdEer journal yes.
terday said:
Tho Princess, in a state of inten So
mental excitement, suddenly teserted
her family at Salzburg and went
abroad. The Saxon court functions for
the winter, including tho Now Years
reception, have beon cancelled .
The foregoing paragraph in yester-
days Official Journal, which was in
serted by order of the King and Grown
Prince of Sayony, has turned into truth
what for several days had heen regarded
as an incredible tale. The Grown
Princess of 5uxuny, surrounded by
her ladies in waiting and numerous
attendants and servants OF the royal
household, vanished SO utterly teat
the ToiIce of every Kingdom nf Europe
Hero for 10 days unable to trace her.
Accompanied by the Crogn Prince,
the Princess went to tho aa9tle of En-.
Eeror Francis Joseph, near Salzburg, d
month ago. A week after thsir arrival
at the castle the Prince broke his leg
while hunting and was brought back
to Dresden. The Princess, however,
remained at the castle Why she aid
so the people of tho court did not
know except that, with gloomy tenaoity,
the Princess usually does what she
pleases. For little while this explana-
tion suiiiced: then fragments of gossip
began to reach Dresden.
> IL was said that the Princess had
surrendered herself to periods of nor
yous excitement, and that her eccen-
trioities of department caused much
concern to her suite and to some of her
A ustrian kinsfolk who were staying at
that she was under surveillance, and If
this is true it makes her disappearance
the more extraordinary.
The narrative of tire events at Salz-
burg during the night of December
llth-l2th as told in Dresden is that the
Princess, who appeared 10 be in an
unusually Tranquil mood, retired be-
fore IL O'Clock. Three hours lator,
when maid looked into the royal he'd
chamber, something in the appearance
OF the bed prompted her TO go closer
and examine it. Instead Of the
Princess the maid perceived dummy
figure. She awakened the lady-in- wait
ing, and the latter with other menbers
OF the Princess suite, searched all the
neighboring apartments, then the en-
tire castle and finally thu grounds of
the castle for the Princess, but no
trace OF the missing woman was found.
At dawn the police of Salzburg were
informed of the disappearance, and in.
quiries were made throughout the
whole countryside, but with no tangi-
BILE result.
A number of what had seemed to be
traces Of the Princess were shown to
be without foundation upon cateful ex-
animation 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
emo of the second day to ali of Europe.
The theory of suicide was suggested
and a fruitless search for the Princess
body vas made. All the ponda ana
other pieces Of water in the vicinity of
the castle were dragged without result.
The disappearance Of the Princess will
cause tho circulation of many stories,
1t is already related that she eloped.
hut Inquiries made here have brought
'rIut nothing to substantiate this state.
Nhent.