Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-09-10
MEM ROMANCE
TOLD BY MOTHER
CHICAGO WOMAN BRINGS HOME
HER BROKEN HEARTED
DAUGHTER.
GIRL FIANCEE OF ROTHSCHILD.
Young Baron Took Life When Father
Opposed Marriage to
American.
YOUNG WOMAN BROKEN HEARTED

CHICAGO, I'LL, Sept 9.-Carefully
guarding their i'll and brokcn-hearted
daughter olga from the inquisitive
world, Dr. and Mrs. Rudolph Mem told
tor the first time last night the story Of
The romance between the Chicago society
girl and Baron Oscar de Rothschild.
which was suddenly closed with his sui
eIde in Vienna July -
Mrs. Mem end the daughter arrived
b Chicago direct from Berlin yesterday
nornlng. The young woman, who had
bravely withstood the Iigors of travel
tainted in her fathers arms when she
lighted from the train. and was hur-
ted to her home, 1882 Lincoln avenue,
where she is seriously i'll.
THE Baron Oscar de Rothschild COM
pitted suicide for the love Of my daugh-
PR and threw a pail Of gloom about the
bves Of two families said Mrs. Mem
b brief statement. "IIe had given mp
hope OF parental consent - his marriage.
md the insult offered us by the ROths-
ehIld family so Inundated him that he
those death To meeting my daughter.
a party had assembled ut the Roths-
child castle in Vienna on the evening of
July u, and young friends of the baron
were pleading for the leniency of the eld-
p baron. while | and my daughter were
snxiously waiting at a summer hotel
Love Letter Kept Sacred
''When the entreaties of the young
RothSchild awaited nothing he was over
come with a sudden fit Of despondemcy.
Going to his room. where the sounds of
the mcrriment added to his suffering, he
spent the last ten minutes of his life pens
ming Il letter 10 my daughter. the contents
IF which will he sacredly kept. He then
shot himself.
He was independent. and would have
left home To marry olga had not the
shame Of the rebuff which we had re-
eeived from his father embittered him
against the world. His last letter was
The tenderest yet most manly tribute ever
paid to a woman.
I'VE had every reason to expect that
lhe older baron would be cordial i'll greet
ing uS. Young Oscar met my daughter
about June IS, while a guest of my hus
band. both being officers in the Aus
hian army He vas smitten with her
at once and proposed 10 her the third
evening they were together.
Old Baron IN Ruse
'My daughter ut last accepted him
npon the condition that he obtain the
ronsent of his father. \ dozen cable
grams were exchanged. in which the old
er baron expressed himself pleased,
and desired To meet us at his home. 1t
was All Il TuSt 10 nIlllS the SUI uutllt.
where he would come under the power
of his father. After the tragedy he re
reived us III Il most humble way, and
will always grieve that he opposed the
marriage.
Dr Mem was very guarded III his
statement and would discuss but shortly
his former statements that neither he
nor his daughter had ever met the baron
Or his refusal to identify the stranger
seen about the home as Il guest but a
Few DAYS before the death of the Baron
De Rothschild.
"Any statements | may have made at
The time of the death of the baron were
for the protection of my family" he
said Il do not care to discuss them at
this time. The statement which has
been made by Mrs. Mem is correct, and
! hope will close the natter
Friends and neighhors who had told of
The presence Of The baron" at the Mem
home on July I. less than six days be-
fore the arrival of Baron de Rothschild
in Vienna. reiterated their statements
last night. and were at q loss to explain
the apparent plausbility of the present
confederation of the Mem romance.
Many gifts which We're gwen the bar
on by the Chicago woman have been re-
the Mem home. \ general atmosphere
Of grief pervadeS the north side home
and the family were dressed in mourn
ing 4 positive denial was given out of
the stories of legal action To he taken hv
DR. Mem against the Baron Albert de
Rothschild.