Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-01-05


in the jungle. The consequence of big bulle
fired from revolver the muzze of which pressed
to the forehead or to the back of the is still
more destructive. 1t is necessary to explain thi
in order to dispel the impression created by thu
story of the appearance of the wound, to the efec
that the shattering of the skull had been caused
by bludgeon, and that the death of the
Crown Prince was therefore due to murder,
instead of suicide. SO
Professor AngeE who was not merely the
favorite portraitist of the reigning houses of
Austria, Prussia, and England, but also :
treated by them as member of that in
innate circle and old friend, i
ployed by the Emperor to paint the portrait >
of the Crown Prince after he had been pre-
pared for burial. While staying few weeks
afterward at the chateau of one of the great 4
women of the court of Berlin, the photogra- L
pher informed her that having occasion
during his work to examine the head of the
dead Crown Prince closely, he found that all
one side of it had been built up artifcially.
AS for Count Nigra, for many years
Italian Ambassador of Vienna he claimed to
have seen the body of the Crown Prince at
Meyerling before its removal to the capital.
After retiring from the diplomatic service he
was wont to relate that, having inquired of
the Princes faithful valet, Loscheck, what
possibly could have induced Rudolph to kill
himself,-the rumors of suicide being already
in circulation,-the servant, without uttering
a word, had pulled aside the bandage and
allowed the Ambassador to see that above
the ear behind the temple there was a hole
almost large enough to contain mans fist.
In Bavaria and Numan1a
TN Bavaria throughout the reign of the late
King Louis the exhibition and sale of
the pictures taken of that monarch with his
cousin Sophia during their engagement was
strictly forbidden by the police who went to exraor
binary lengths in confscating and destroying al
likenesses of the royal lovers which they could Sc
cure When the King led by the disgracefu
conspiracy of one of the women of the court to jill
Princess Sophia of Bavaria in SO sensational man
ner he not only smashed with his own hand the ex
quisite marble bust which he had caused to be made
of her by the leading sculptor of the day. but like
wise moved heaven and earth to obtain for pur
poses of destruction all the photographs of her anC
himself taken together as an aftanced couple. The
pictures in question therefore very rare indeed
though longer under the ban of Bavarian law
Princess Sophia, it may be remembered, subse
quently married the French Duke of Alencon, anC
persisted in the Charity Bazaar fire at Paris
Rumanian diplomatic agents abroad have the
orders of the King to buy up and destroy all copies
of that large sized photograph in which the
poet Queen is shown seated on a platform at
piano, surrounded by odd looking crowd Of
and women professional musicians. whose
abandon of attitude and manifest familiarity Of
manner indicate garng lack of respect toward
Carmen Sylvia Unfortunately, the picture got into
of the German illustrated papers, and the ser
vices of the Berlin Government were secured from
Bucharest in order to enforce the destruction of the
journal and picture wherever found.
Equally highly priced by the collectors of these
tabooed portraits of royalty is the one showing
Crown Prince Ferdinand of Rumania tenderly
clasping the hand of Mile. Vacarescu, the maid OF
he was about to marry when the engagement,
was broken off by the King and Government, who
jointly exiled the woman threatened Ferdinand
with the forfeiture of his succession to the throne
and sent Queen Elizabeth, who had persisted in
encouraging the attachment, to Germany, where
she spent couple of years under the of hel
brother the Prince of WED before being permitted
to return to Bucharest. The photographs portray
ing the Queen with Mile. Vacarescu sitting at he1
feet gazing up at her with look of rapt admiration
have also been gathered in and consigned to the