The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-01-04

much oftener in the society of the mother
than in the company of the children. The
crown princess did not even take the
trouble to hide her fondness for the tutor.
Almost insane with rage, the crown prince
drove the Belgian out of Dresden at a mo-
ment's notice, on Dec. 2. On the same day
he ordered his wife to go to her parents.
Furious was the crown prince, he was
diplomatic King George is seriously i'll
with influenza. Should he die Louise An
toinette would be Queen. Their separation
| being inevitable, her husband determined
| TO hurry her away while she was yet crown
| princess.
All the gossip and scandals that have
clouded her fame have not affected the
crown princess's popularity with the Sax
! ons of all classes the highest They
| greatly admired the bright Austrian wom-
an, who spoke to them and even mingled
| with them without assumption of superior
| ity, and who was constantly doing kind
| nesses to the poor. The crown prince is too
Ostentatiously pious and proper to be loved.
| His people know that, whatever her faults,
| his wife has been miserably unhappy amid
stern. unsymrathetic surroundings.
| FORSAKEN BY PARENTS.
| Hurried out of Dresden, the crown prin-
| cess sought refuge with her father and
mother in their palace at Salzburg. They
received her coldly. In the attempt to
/ bring about a reconciliation the old grand
| duchess implored pardon of the crown
| prince. Her prayers were vain. When she
| and her husband became convinced that
| nothing could prevent the crown prince
| from publishing the scandal to all Europe
/ they told their daughter they could not
| support her in her position. She angrily
| demanded to know why.
| "You forget, Louise, that we have three
more daughters to marry" they answered.
| Under these circumstances We cannot
| countenance such behavior as yours"
The crown princess. mortaliy offended,
| determined to leave Salzburg without so
/ much as bidding farewell TO mother, IA
/ ther-to any one. She readily found the
| support of her brother Leopold whose be-
havior is the more remarkable because he
| is his fathers oldest child. Brother and
sister left Salzburg together in the night
| of Dec. u.
Two days later Captain Toepliz. gentle
man in waiting to Archduke Leopold was
sent in pursuit, and finally found his mas
ID Angleterre, at Geneva. The situation was
| clarified to his understanding when Toepliz
also discovered there Giron and Miss Ad-
| amovics. 1t is now known that the crown
princess was in communication with Giron
from the moment he was sent away from
her, and that he met her somewhere be-
tween Sulzburg and Geneva. But even this
knowledge does not satisfactorily explain
Il
much-loved crown princess. They insist
now that Giron has her under a hypnotic
spell.
The shocking affair is complicated by the
fact that the crown princess expects to be-
come mother in May. Her husband repu-
dates the paternity of the unborn child
but under the Saxon statutes governing
families it must be recognized as being OF
royal birth.
| DIVORCE NOT PROBABLE.
The report that the Pope is being an.
preached TO divorce the crown prince and
princess is not credited in Catholic circles
The only ground on which the Vatican
could sanction a divorce would be that the
marriage was null, and this can not be al.
| legged. Besides, the Pope has so sternl,
and successfully resisted the new Italian
divorce law that it has been dropped. /,
is scarcely TO be expected that the Pontin
will divorce a royal couple so conspicuou:
at this time.
1t is authoritatively stated that in tn,
| communication made on her part by tn.
crown princess's lawyer. NJ. Lachenal. O.
Geneva, she denies that Giron is with he,
there. and states that she is accompanied
only by Archduke Leopold. NJ Lachena
! says:
Her Highness will never return to Sax
ony or Germany She fears lest she Shout,
be shut up In an asylum, whereas she il
perfectly we'll. mentally and physically.
am taking steps toward securing a divorce
either IN Vienna, Dresden, Geneva or Leip
zig
Another report, which comes from Wen
} ma. has IL that the crown prince is ever
now willing to be reconciled to his wife
and wishes her TO meet him at Meranat
, in the Austrian Tyrol. But no one believe
, she will set foot on Austrian or German
territory lest she be thrown into a mad
house, was Princess Louise of Saxe-Co
} burg. the eldest daughter of the King O
! Belgians.
There Is no possible doubt that the cour
; is trying to end the scandal in some way
and is being assisted by Emperor Franci
Joseph. Very tempting offers of none
have already been made TO the crown priu
cess to turn away Giron. but all arc con
| yinced that these offers will be futile, no