The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-02
IS A RUNAWAY Louise of Saxe-C -COburg is
 Missing. NOT HER FIRST ESCAPADE Disappears from Hotel in
 BaldeSter, Sax0ny. Not Long from sanitarium in Which She Had Been ceanned-Believed to Have Made for the Swiss Frontier.
NOT HER FIRST ESCAPADE

cess Louise of Saxe-Copurg, IL now dP- pears, escaped alone from her hotel at o'clock Tuesday morning. She was joined under the trees in the hotel gar den by two women and man. They entered a two-horse carriage which was waiting outside and were driven siftIy away in the direction of Muni h.
 A man namei w. Gratz, who was stopping at the hotel, has not appeared since Monday night. It Is supposed he provided the means for the night of the Princess and that he was an agent of Lieutenant Count Matassich- Kegle- witch. with whom she eloped in 1897.
 The Princess, closely attended by her physician ard a lady of the court. went to the theatre Monday evening. She was animated and seemingly enjoyed the music, as she has enjoyed every thing during three weeks she had been permitted to leave the seclusion of the sanitorium Pierson at Coswig. where really she was a prisoner of state. She had been pi ovided with attractive costumes for this reappearance into the world and she was allowed once more to wear the splendid jewels which were part of her dowry when she married Prince Philip of Saxe-Coburg.
 Disappearance Discovered.
 After the theatre the princess and her little party bad supper in one of her rooms. She said good night at Il 80 and her guardians were not aware of her departure until o'clock in the morning, by which time she probably was far toward the Swiss frontier.
 Cratz first had room on the third floor of the hotel but Monday he nov ed to one on the ground floor, with q private entrance into the garden. It is presumed that the princess used this exit and it is certain that Frau Schu- bert, of Dresden engaged the carriages at a local livery stable. Neither the driver nor the equipage have returned.
 Beyond the outskirts of the town some of the occupants of the carriage were transferred tc an automobile and the carriage continued it's rapid flight. probably to confuse possible pursuers.
 It Is deemed likely that the Princess was one of those taken into the auto mobile. The chauffeur drove the machine through several roads lead ing in different directions from the town, doubtless with the purpose to further create doubt as to which road the princess really took. An auto mobile similar to that which left Badelster was traced to Hof, forty miles away. Whether the princess took the a. m. train there for Munich or proceeded in an automobile Is undetermined.
 Photographic reports reaching here to the effect that she had been seen at Asch. Bohemia. and that rooms had been engaged for her in Paris are con sidered improbable.
 The disappearance of the princess was most dexteriously managed as she was under sharp surveillance day and night, both by an especially trust worthy court lady, with three servants and by the manager of the royal baths, who had been made responsible for her safe keeping.
 A watchman who was In the cor ridor of the hotel at the time the princess escaped saw nothing of her.
 A chambermaid who had access to the princess apartments carried notes regularly to the princess and another person. It was :n this correspondence doubtless that the plans for the escape were conveyed. The princess was tc have been taken back to the sanitarium in a day or two. A visit from her sister. the Countess Lonyay, had been promised for September '.
 The pursuit is not likely to be keen as 1t Is very well understood that the husband of the princess is rather pleas ed than otherwise at her escape. be- cause he thinks she has been sufficient ly punished.
 The sympathies of the Belgian court have been with her for the same reason 1t being thought that she has been harshly treated. The princess 1t ap- pear, met Lieutenant Matassich K ekle- witch In the garden or the Dresden art exhibition two weeks ago, where she was taken under the escort of Manager Pierson. of the sanitarium. The latter had turned away a few minutes be- fore to look at a piece of sculpture.
 As soon as he saw the princess talk ing to a strange man, Pierson hastened toward them. She told him that the man was Lieutenant Matassisch- Kegls witch. and begged to be allowed to speak with him. Pierson replied that she knew that to be impossible and that he must insist that she go with him immediately.
 The princess began to cry and asked to be allowed to talk with the lieuten- ant for few minutes. She became su distressed that pierson turned tc Matassische- Keglevitch and requested him to give his word of honor that he would not attempt to persuade the princess to leave those who were tax. ing care of her.
 The lieutenant promised. Piersor withdrew out of hearing and the two so long separated talked together fol several minutes until Pierson told them that the interview must end.