Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-11-06
ROTHSCHILD HEIR
DIED FOR A GIRL
Worlds Richest Banker Planned
to Break Up Love Affair and
Tragedy Resulted
GOLDEN BARON COMMITS SUICIDE
Fathers Plans to Make Him Forget
His Pretty Peasant Sweetheart
Went Awry-Fate Of the Young
Man a Terrible RetrIbutlon.

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 Rothschtld,
youngest of the six sons Of this branch
of the family noted for it's wealth and
.benefcence. is dead, 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 a 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 tbs story OF
.apoplexy fell to pieces.
With the knowledge that the young
Baron had killed himself, came the
rest Of the story, story of an at
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 aristocrattc circles of Europe,
the idea Of the young man marrying
n woman of humble parentage was
Fepulsive.
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
plan of defeat for his son. He would
trick him neatly into abandoning his
foolish young dream of love and vio-
1ation Of the family wishes. He sent
the Baron Oscar on 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
q 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 a fortune for dover when
she married another man.
10 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-
neve 1t at first, and then he found
that his father had accomplished this
with money from the hoard OF the
RothschiIds. He went home, sought
his bedroom and blew out his brains
The death of the young Baron Ii
considered in Austria to be terrible
retribution of his father for the par
he has played in life. Although the
most influential man in Austria ant
with great power because of his enor
nous wealth, he is not PERSONAL!
liked. He Is a silent man, devoted t.
the piling of dollar on dollar and Ii
considered unsympathetic-
He has ever been stern in his STAN
for the further honor and glory @
the name of Rothschild and has cal
ried this to an extreme.
So clannish was he in this regar
that he married his double-frst couE
in, keeping the name and the presug
of the family within the family
His wife was Bettina, daughte
OF Baron A1phonse de Rothl
child, head of the Paris branc
of the family. The first son, Baro
George, went mad. The only daughte
Naomi, Ia a deaf mute. The motht
died four years after the birth of tt
ill-fated Oscar, a victim OF cancer.
The Baron Oscar was regarded
his father as the strongest Of his CHI
dren, young man that gave promi'
of being powerful in finance as his a
cestors had been before him.
He would have been one OF Il
richest men In Europe.
Youthful Kansas Financiers.