The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-08-12
RJlHSCHILD HEIR
DIED FOR A GIRL
Worlds Richest Banker Planne J
to Break Up Love Affair and
Tragedy Resulted
GOLDEN BARON COMMITS SUICIDE
Fathers Plans to Make Him Forget
His Pretty Peasant Sweetheart
Went Awry-Fste Of the Young
Man a Terrible Retributon.


Vienna, Austria.--With all of the
great wealth that has bulwarked the
Rothschild family against hurt and
sting of evil circumstances, there has
crept into the domestic circle Of Baron
Albert de Rothschild, head of the
Austrian branch of the famous bank
ing house, grief and sorrow that
money can never wipe away.
The Baron Oscar de Rothschild,
youngest of the six sons Of this branch
of the family noted for its wealth and
benehcence. is dead, a suicide.
So stricken was the father when he
was summoned from his bank to his
home and found there his son dead
with bullet hole in his head that
he sought to cover the case with re-
port that his boy, the young baron,
had died of apoplexy. 1t did not re-
main long hidden.
The authorities were compelled to
examine the body before granting the
burial certificate and the story of
apoplexy fell to pieces.
With the knowledge that the young
Baron had killed himself, came the
tempt to play wealth against the nat
ural instincts of young humanity.
The young Baron, who reached his
majority only few months ago. fell
desperately in love with comely girl
of poor parentage. Her beauty en-.
thralled him, and he vowed that he
would marry her. To the Rothschilds,
who have finally reached into the
highest aristocratic circles of Europe,
the idea of the young man marrying
woman of humble parentage was
repulsive.
The father argued with the son,
and the son with the father. The one
was old and rich and the other was
young and impulsive.
The Baron Albert, as keen a man
in finance as lives to-day, laid out a
plan of defeat for his son. He would
trick him neatly into abandoning his
foolish young dream of love and vio-
lation of the family wishes. He sent
the Baron Oscar on a trip around the
world, gave him limitless credit, sent
ahead of him messages to interesting
and charming persons to take him
and entertain him and make him for
get this peasant sweetheart.
The young Baron went to England
and to America, spent his money, was
entertained freely, but always carried
heartache.
The trick that the father had plan
ned seemed clever. While the son was
away on his travels he used his vast
wealth to buy off the pretty girl He
gave her fortune for dover when
she married another man.
Then came home the Baron Oscar,
weary of the entertainment given him
in strange lands and eager only for
the kiss of his peasant sweetheart
and the feel of her soft arms about
him. He hurried to her home to find
she had married. He asked how this
had come about. He could not be-
lieve it at first, and then he found
that his father had accomplished this
with money from the hoard of the
Rothschids. He went home, sought
his bedroom and blew out his brains
The death of the young Baron Is
considered in Austria to be a terrible
retribution of his father for the part
he has played in life. Although the
most influential man in Austria and
with great power because of his enor-
nous wealth, he is not personally
liked. He is silent man, devoted to
the piling of dollar on dollar and is
considered unsympathetic.
lie has ever been stern in his stand
for the further honor and glory of
the name of Rothschild and has car
r!ed this to an extreme.
SO clannish was he in this regard
that he married his double-first cous-
in, keeping the name and the prestige
of the family within the family.
His wife was Bettina, daughter
of Baron Alphonse de Roths-
child, head of the Paris branch
of the family. The first son, Baron
George, went mad. The only daughter,
Naomi, is deaf mute. The mother
died four years after the birth of the
ill-fated Oscar, victim of cancer.
The Baron Oscar was regarded by
his father as the strongest of his chill
dren, young man that gave promise
of being powerful in finance as his an
cestors had been before him.
He would have been one OF the
richest men in Europe.