The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-11-04

without title or country. married in
| London the dancer of the opera house,
! Almost Immediately after the wedding
the archduke sailed for Buenos Ayres
in the sailing-ship St. Marguerite,
which he had recently purchased His
bride met him in South America. To-
gether they sailed in July from Buenos
Ayres, bound for Valparaiso. The.
| rounded Cape Horn and appeared in
a little port in South Chile.
After the st. Marguerite left this
harbor no one ever saw her Or any Of
her crew. Archduke Johann, of the
Imperial House of Austria, his wife,
the Viennese dancer, and twenty-five
sailors vanished from the earth. From
time to time it was reported that
Johann had been recognized in one
place or another. Detectives were sent
from Vienna to run the clues down,
but the fate of the archduke and his
bride remains a mystery.
ROGER TICHBORNE'S FATE.
Far below the archduke in station,
but destined by his disappearance to
become no less celebrated, was Roger
Tichborne, the son of an English coun-
try gentleman. Born in Paris in 1929,
Roger was allowed by his mother,
French woman apparently of a very
disa greeable temperament to grow up
in ignorance until he was about six
teen years of age. Then his father in
sisted on his going to an English pub
lie school and later obtained for him
commission in the army. Although
an attempt was afterward made to
paint Roger as an oaf and a drunkard,
he seems to have been an average
young Englishman, who. about this
time, fell violently in love with his
cousin
The father of the young woman re-
fused to permit the marriage for three
years, and in 1853 Roger sailed for VAL
paraiso. For more than a year he
Travelled in South America. Then he
left Rio de Janeiro on the ship Bella
for New York. A week or so after
ward another vessel reported having
passed at sea an overturned boat with
the word Bella" on the stern, as we'll
as various other pieces of wreckage.
The Bella never reached New York
and it was commonly supposed that
all on board had gone down with her.
This belief Rogers mother never
shared. After her husbands death in
1862 her conviction that her son had in
SOII1S way DSSn ESSCueu became SO
strong that she advertised for infor-
nation concerning him. A reply came
from New South Wales saying that her
son was in New Zealand, working as
butcher. More correspondence fol-
lowed, with the result that the butcher
finally arrived in England to claim the
Inheritance of Roger Itch borne-an in
heritance which yielded an income of
about five thousand dollars a year.
That the newcomer really was Roger
Tichborne the widow was determined
to believe. The trustees Of her hus- ,
bands estate were less convinced by /
his story of a rescue at sea and life in ,
Australia, and the matter dragged
along for several years, Mrs. Tichborne
doing all in her power to make up for
the sudden lapses of memory concern
ing his past life to which her new
found son was subject. But 50 strange
were these lapses that in 1874 the Aus 1,
tralian was put on trial for perjury.
STRANGE LOSS OF MEMORY.
For one hundred and sixty-eight
days, the longest time recorded in the
history of English justice, the trial
dragged along. According to the de-
PENDANTS counsel. his client had So in
jured his mind by long course of dis |
sipation that he could remember little
of his past life. He had been drunk
on the Bella and did not know just
how the vessel had been wrecked. One
boatload of persons had been picked up
by the Osprey, a sailfng-vessel bound
for Australia, and landed at Melbourne.
In Australia the possessor of an in
come of five thousand dollars a year, :
with wealthy relatives at home, had
become first a servant, then a butcher.
and had married a servant into the
bargain. Also he had lived for some
time in the bush. The only explana-
ton vouchsafed was that Tichhorne
had decided to cut himself off entirely
from his old associations in England |!
Against this story several things told
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