Evening star., 1909-07-18
Almost Overwhelmed by Sui
eide of Her Lover.
STORY OF THEIR ROMANCE
Her Father Tells Of Her Meeting
Baron Rothschild.
PLANS OF THE YOUNG COUPLE
Had Hoped to Meet in Europe and
Win Consent Of the Baron's
Father.

! Special Dispatch to The Star.
CHICAGO, ILL.,, July 17.-"Poor girl: SHIT
is desperate and cannot be consoled.
do not believe Olga will ever outlive this
lgreat sorrow. Her mother cables that
she has given herself up to grief and has
almost collapsed
| Standing on the doorstep of his home
ID Lincoln avenue, holding in one hand
a cablegram from his wife. who is ir
Hamburg. Germany. DR.. Rudolph Mem
spoke thus today of his daughter, Miss
Olga Mem. for love of whom Baron
Oskar Rothschild. scion Of the enormously
wealthy Austrian house OF Rothschild
ended his life
'"The poor girl has never before known
sorrow, and she was so supremely
happy that do not see how she can face
her future with this awful disappoint-
ment and tragedy before her." continued
| the doctor.
Il am SO broken down myself that dc
not see how can take the trip to Ham
burg. 1t would take over week for
me to get there l am SO afraid of my
poor little girl. Every cablegram I have
received tells of her intense grief and
how desperate she feels, looks and speaks
Confident Of Elder Baron's Remorse
II am quite sure that the father of tn,
young baron who shot himself rathe
| than live without my daughter nov
| srieves over his opposition to the mar
riage L fully expect that he and his es
cort will meet my wife and daughter ant
entertain them until can reach the othe
side and bring them home. That woul.
be the just and proper thing for th
elder Baron Rothschild to do.
Every few hours l get message from
my wife and from friends who have re
mained with her since the awful new
reached them. These messages all tel
of the great shock the news Of the youn,
baron's suicide gave them"
The doctor told Of his daughters meet
| ing with the young baron when he arrived
| in Chicago with party of friends OF
| their way to Europe from the orient. TIL,
baron was travelling under the name O
Oskar Wolf and was introduced unde
that name to many Chicagoans who hat
| no idea of his identity. Miss Menn, pop
ular In North Side society. took him t,
dances at the Germania Club and othe
social affairs and he attracted much at
| tention.
Not more than week after meeting
| Miss Menn, the doctor said, the youni
| baron proposed marriage.
Hoped to Gain Consent.
Then the baron left for Vienna with the
promise that Miss Mem and her mothe,
would follow. He expected that hi.
father would not consent to his marriage
| with an American girl. but thought the
young woman's beauty would win him
over.
The baron cabled to his father, but ths
reply was not enthusiastic. Young Roths
child then wanted to marry Miss Menr
at once. but DR.. Menn refusedto allow
this, and the baron sailed for Europe te
plead with his father. short time agt
the girl and her mother sailed.
"You can't realize what a shock the
news Of her fiance's death was to my
daughter" continued the doctor. "Olgs
was expecting Baron Oskar to join her a
Hamburg and take her and her mothel
| on to Vienna. They were there to be In
troduced to the barons family. They
expected to go with the Rothschilds tt
their summer place in the south OF
Austria, and there they were to be enter
| tanned according to the. young baron:
| plans"
DIR. Menn and his young son. Paul, ex
pect to sail soon for Hamburg.