The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-05-26
4 ROYAL ROMANCE
REVEALED BY DEATH
Known Son Of Austrian Ems
peror's Titled Physician Cast
Off Because Of Love.
HE MARRIED q BOHEMIAN
Emperor Franz Josef Wished HIm to
Wed a Nobleman, But His Love
for a Daughter of Bohemian
Prevailed.

New York special. NneH INC Nof
nme OF human puthos is finally pub
ished, Il page VIII be filled by the story
Of the life and love OF Bia Szabo, a
lisinherited son OF Count Biia SZaoo,
physician to the Austrian emperor,
Franz Josef, and Of his sweetheart
wife, Rosa, for whom he threw way
wealth and title, and in whose arms
ne died on Monday, at their home 26o
West Torty-third street.
The romance Is best told by Mrs.
Szabo herself, a beautiful woman, just
Is she told 1t last night.
"Blla," said she, was born at Buda-
ocst Of a noble family. His father,
he Count Sgabo, has long been the
trusted medical adviser of the Aus
.rian emperor and the royal family.
When Bila was Is years of age he went
% the University of Vienna and be-
,alne an officer In one of the cavalry
.roops of our Countrywide Jh!ans.
when Bila was 20, his father, the
,Ount, with the APPROVAL Of the emperor,
arranged a match between my hus-
sand and a noblcwoman of the court.
3ila did not love anybody at that time,
90 he agreed to the engagement.
Met His Fate at a Reception.
"One morning l went to a reception
given by a friend. Some Dun officers
If the Uhlans came In. Btla Szabo was
among them. and hat Is how we came
o meet. My father was not OF noble
blood, but he was not poor. He owned
many large hotels In Austria, When
3ila found where l lived he came to
Zee me, and after a while told me he
owed me and wished to marry me,
~ loved him, too" said the dead
mans wife, with fearful frankness. II
could not help loving him. He was a
gentleman in all his words and actions
out I told him l would not marry HIN
oecause-wc were different-you un-
ierstand."
Several times In the course of heI
narrative Mrs. S2abo broke down and
sobbed bitterly, for the young couples
happiness was just beginning.
"But Blia was strong in his deter
minatiou to marry me- continued the
young widow. He told my father so;
10 told his own father, he told the
tmperor-told the whole world, in fact
The emperor said it must not be; Rila
must marry the noblewoman whom he,
Franz Josef, had chosen for him. Tor
answer Bila-my Bila-broke off the
engagement with this noblewoman and
said he would marry none but me
Rosa M~enschiek, the daughter of q
Bohemian. The Count Szabo was
! NIX y. anu St4h LIZ NohtA hAiA
Of all his estates. Bila laughed. for he
had esates in his own right. The en-
peror, too, was angry, and said he
would exile him. Blla laughed and
cane to ma and offered to marry
me and take me with him to this Coun-
try. I said l would 60, but later Bills
said he would so first and make q
home in America for me, then send fol
me. And I promised I would come al
ais command.
She Was But Eighteen Years Old.
$50 he cane to this country twelve
5 years ago. l was only eighteen then
but I was a woman, and I waited FOR
Bila to send for me. But when he
: wrote It was to tell me how hard 1t was
tor a gentleman who he'd led the life
IF luxury at court to make a living,
, In the meantime my friends IN
! Austria laughed and said: He VIII
aim ! wrote and told Blla what they
sa!d. He was angry and cabled Inc
: % come to him at once, 80 we could
) 1ght together. l hid the message from
= ny people and II night I stole from
my fathers house, sold all my Jewels
: md set out for America, I arrived
leTe quite safely in November, 1903,
md there was Bila-handsome, gentle
8ila Szabo-waiting for me on the
2Ier.
we went straight to the city hall,
md there we were married. Then he
I brought me to these rooms, where we
= lave been so happy.
= 1T was only last Wednesday that he
:ook III. He had been teaching Latin
e md Greek in a private house, and
caught pneumonia on the way home.
Z All Saturday-all Sunday, I sat with
ny arms around his neck, and he made
ne promise shat | would 20 back to
t Austria and ask my fathers forgive
less. At l o'clock on Monday morn
4 ng he died, and I sat all alone with
4 aim tn morning-just as he had died
= with his head on my shoulder"
So ended the life and the love of a
nan who defied his king and kindred
'or the sake Of a Bohemian girl. He
Will be buried at Calvary cemetery on
3 Sunday. after which his wife will re-
s urn to Austria to tell Count Sza he
D md the Emperor how Bila died.