The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-09-02
PRINCESS LOUISE NOT FOUND.
SHE AND HER SOLDIER LOVER
ARE STILL MISSING.
Her Husband, Prince Philip, Takes Measures
for Her Recspture-Paris Editor
Said to Have Assisted I'm the Eiope-
ment-She Took $3.50 Along.

for Her Recspture-Paris Editor
Said to Have Assisted I'm the Eiope-
ment-She Took ezS,OOO Along.
Special Cable Dispatches to THE sun
From TIE SUN Correspondent at Berlin.
BERLIN, Sept. 1.-The driver Of the auto
mobile In which the Princess Louise OF
SAKE Coburg left Elster has returned to
the latter place. He says he drove the
Princess and her companion. Lieut.. Malta
chich Kegievitch, to Hof, Bavaria, where
they took train for Munich. 1t Is believed
this statement Is intended to mislead the
pursuers.
Dispatches from Prague say the auto
mobile passed Asch In the night on the way
to Franzenbad. Prince Philip, the hus-
band of the Princess, has telegraphed his
solicitor in Vienna to take energetic legal
measures for her capture. She had $4,000
In money, besides valuable jewels.
1t Is stated that the automobile and other
assistance was furnished by lie Journal OF
Paris, whose editor went to Elster to aid In
the escape OF the Princess The latter left
a letter declaring it was impossible to bear
imprisonment in the sanitarium any longer.
1t Is believed the Coburg family will
treat the affair as the Dresden court did
that OF the Crown Princess Of Saxony and
induce the husband to abandon the pursuit.
LONDON, Sept. "A despatch from
Vienna to the Erpress says that the husband
of Princess Louise has offered $4,000 Tor
the recapture of his wife. The Austrian
and German police are searching Tor her
in cooperation and are using bloodhounds.
VIENNA, Sept. 1.-The search for the
Princess Louise of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
who disappeared from Bad Elster, where
she was taking the cure and who was sup
posed to have gone away with her lover.
Mattaohich Kegievitch. late Lieutenant in
the Austrian Army, has been without result
30 far.
Through a similarity OF names Princess
Louise OF Coburg is often COMPOUNDED
with Princess Louise of Saxony. who eloped
with a tutor named Glron in 1902. An
American dentist was involved in that
scandal, but when he returned to this coun-
try a short time afterward he denied the
charge emphatically. His relations with
the Princess, he said were Of purely
business nature, he having done some
work on her teeth.
The Princess Louise of Coburg first met
He was a poor Lieutenant, with no fortune
except his pay as an officer in the army.
1t is said that she first saw him when he
was breaking horse in the street. Later
he became her riding master. and their
conduct gave rise to great scandal, which
eliminated in a duel between the Lieu
tenant and Louise's husband, Prince Philip.
Directly afterward Kegevitch received
ia
When Louise found that her protests against
this order were fruitless she went to Naples
wit. the Lieutenant and lived year with
him in his stepfathers house.
They soon became cramped for funds
and bills OF exchange were drawn on
Louise's sister. In connection with this
transaction, Kegievitch was arrested for
forgery and sentenced to five years imprtson-
ment in an Austrian fortress He was also
expelled from the army The Princess was
On his release. in 1902, Kegievitch pro-
tested that he had not committed forgery
and that great injustice had been done
to him A few months ago the Emperor
Francis Joseph granted him a pardon.
He made one unsuccessful attempt to re-
lease the Princess as soon as he got out Of
the fortress and another last April The
Princess had been confined in an insane
asylum in 1898, but there seemed to be
little ground for believing that she was
| really of unsound mind
Louise was taken to Bad Elster three
weeks ago in charge of two physicians and
| a woman companion. 1t was discovered
| one day that she was receiving written
messages from kegievitch and the sur
| veillance, which had been greatly relaxed
| in the seven years since her first elope-
'ment, was made doubly rigid. In spite Of
| this she escaped. 1t is thought she must
! have had the connivance Of the hotel people,
If not her OWL, guards
| She is the daughter OF Ming Leopold Of
| Belgium. and was born at Brussels in 1858,
being christened Louise Marie Amelia.
| When II years old she married Prince
Philip, brother of ferdinand of Bulgaria
and cousin of the King of Portugal. Two
| children were born to her, Prince Leopold
In 1878 and the Princess Dorothee Marie
| Henriette Augustine Louise in 1881 The
latter was married in 1893 to Ernst Giinther,
Duke of Schleswig- Holstein. Princess
Louise's sister stephanie, born in 1884,
| married the Archduke Rudolph, Crown
Prince of Austria, who shot himself. in
company with a young woman. in January,
| 1899. In March, 1900, Stephanie married
Count Longay.
Leopolds third daughter, Clementine, is
unmarried. Her two sisters recently sued
the King for money alleged to have been
| withheld from them from their mother e
estate.