The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-23
DIVORCED.
Crown Princess of Saxony Has
Been Found.
She Is Living With a Music
Teacher at Geneva.
ARCHDUKE FERDINAND
And Woman Accompanied Her
On Escapade.
FERDINAND
Whole Party to Spend Christmas
at Swiss Capital.

Geneva, Dec. 23-The crown princess of
Saxony is here under the name of
Fraulein Oben. Her brother, Archduke
Leopold Ferdinand, and Prof. Giron are
at the same hotel The archduke has
assumed the name of DeBurano- The
party are living quietly and propose to
spend Christmas here.
DIVORCE TALKED OF.
Dresden, Saxony, Dec. 2S.-King
George and the Crown Prince Frederick
know where the Crown Princess Louise
has sought refuge, but they have de
cided to accept the estrangement of the
princess and her husband as irreparable.
They have made the cabinet privy to the
circumstances of the princess fight,
as they see them, and d decree of di-
vorce is talked of as a necessary Sc
quence to the princess resolution to
leave the court forever.
The princess wrote to her mother at
the end of November that it was her
purpose to leave the crown prince and
give up the prospect of the qUee1tihip,
which instead of being attractive, the
princess frequently said, was detestable
to her. She formally told members OF
her encourage that she was going to
visit her parents at Salzburg. The let
ter of the princess to her mother
brought the archduchess Immediately to
Dresden. She implOred her daughter to
reconsider her determination and make
the best of an unpleasant situation for
the sake of her children and see as lit
tie of the crown prince as permissible.
The princess replied according to one of
her confidants that she would see notn~
ing of that beast" that the tutelage of
her children was largely taken out of
her hands and that she could not bear
to see them spoiled by the hypOcr1S1eS
of the court" What she complained of
in the prince was his intemperance, his
inhdelities and as her partisans affirm,
his cruelty of disposition. They affirm
that he has had for years a llaSon With
an actress named Baste, and it is cred
IDLY reported that at a review of troops
at Grimma, two years ago, the prince
fell from his horse intoxicated in front
of his regiment However true these in
cidents may be the court and all Dres-
den knew that a chasm separated the
affections of the crown princess from the
crown prince. Though he remittingIy
had genuine admiration for his wife, the
prince did his share of quarreling and
often tried to impose his will upon her,
but he always hoped that she would in
the end humble herself.
This determination the princess an
nounced to her husband early in No.
vember, after one of their frequent VIC
lent scenes She also confided her in
tention to separate herself utterly from
the court and 'tall it's WretchedneSS'' To
Two or three of her intimate friends, and
discussed with them the impossibility OF
her longer enduring the artificial eti-
quette of the court and the forced com
Danionshi7e of a man who was loath-
some to her
Her attitude recently until she had
actually gone appears to have been that
of diSdainfuI Indifference and belief that
she really intended to carry out her
threa IS.
The crown princess days at SaIzburg
were spent in controversy with her
father and mother. who did not excuse
her for moment in her mad desire TO
leave ner position and family. Her
brother took his sisters part. The cir
cumstances of her flight are still OBJ
scure and no further reliable news is
available. The only fact that seems
clear is that the king and crown prince
know where she is and are in commun-
ication with her.
Dresden is absorbed bv the sensation
The theory that the crown princess is
suffering from mental alteration is now
only feebly propagated by the Saxon
court and the princes adherents admit
that an Illicit love affairs is the cause of
the princess desertion.
The Dresdener Nachrichsten, one Of
the principal newspapers and having
conservative leanings after saying it
could almost be sorry for the princess.
with a disposition incompatible with
that of the .,rince and disliking the ct
iquette of this court, suggests that ito
find the reason for her departure
one must find the man."
The man in the case who is associa ted
with gossip with the princess is a hand
some Frenchman, whu was tutor to t1ee
princess children He was Deremptor-
lily discharged by order of the crown
prince December 2
An instance of the princess lawless
disregard of court manners was her
cycling through the streets with an
American dentist who at her request
taught her to ride, though the king and
crown prince commanded her not to
learn The name of the dentist was a t
first coupled with hers when it was
heard that she had disappeared but as
he is quietly living here with his fam
lily the story was dropped.
The crown princess had a lively Vien-
nese manner. She was Independent and
high spirited and was inclined to ridi
cule the ObSerVances of the little Saxon
court which takes itself most seriously.
SCANDALOUS REPORTS
Vienna, Dec. 23.@The flight of the
crown princess of Saxony is the absorb
ing topic of the day here. All kinds of
sensational reports are in circulation.
When she left Salzburg, accompanied by
her brother. Archduke Leopold Ferdi-
nand the princess went to Munich.
where a French tutor awaited her. Her
brother was also Joined there by beau
tiful Viennese woman and the two
couples proceeded to Brussels and thence
to Geneva
It appears that when the crown prince.
returned recently to Dresden after mis-
hunting accident in the Tyrol he dis
covered secret correspondence ex-
changed between the princess and the
French tutor, whose former relations
with her had created a scandal resulting
in the tutors expulsion from Saxony
Besides disclosing the couples rela tons,
the letters revealed another scandal
her home and went to Sa1zburg. The
fact that she took a trunk filed with