Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1912-04-28
AVARIAN POPULACE
OBSERVE ANNIVERSARY
OF MAD KINGS BIRTH

Munich. April - Kne otto OF
Bavaria entered upon hi1 sixiy-nith
year TODAY. and Munich. with other
Bafarian towns. Boz honor Of The oo-
casian displayed FLAGS and bunting
sang Te Dcums bad O. review 81
troops and perfuretorily drank % the
health OF the king Who remains shut
up in the castle of Fucisteu-leI.
hopelessly insane AVID carellly
Guarded an these celebrations are
merely a matter q form aud in ac-
cOrdance with i1Cnarrh.al traditions
The rlvauans care bat little Tor fhel-
Rims whom many have never F.fr.
Ne was insane when D.. fDccec &C. 90
fhe throne OF Bavaria after the death
1f DIS brother Ludwig o.. who hail
dop0scd 900 account of Dis madness
and drowned himself IN Starbers
Lake two days later ICnc l9. 1856
Even then OTTO Has confined 20 Cas-
he Feursienried. while Prince Luit-
noId. appointed resent for me mad
Ludwig. continued as regent for lho
even madden OuC
Bavaria had not cause 90 complain
for under me wise aut conservative
rulc ~ tho faithful recent the clun-
try prospercd beyond an cype .iaiions
spent many millions Building castles
and had slddlod O tremendous Dep
pom his country Luiipold enforced
strlrt economy In an government. eve
rendituros and net only settled the
debts u the former king but 1O.
clnulated a large surplus.
Otto Wilhelm Leopold Adllbort
Waldemar. Tho present nominal ruler
Of Bavaria. was born iu Munich ON
April %. 1siN Ills father was Max
MILAN u and his mother o Princes
Marie of Prussia u is from bis
fathers side of fho house that ptto
inherited his ius uifv q faint o.
which d.solso was latent in quite q
number of soIous of The ancient mouse
OF Nito'sh1ch
Whom Ludwig % succeeded his
father Macmillan Co., upon the
throne oi Bavaria the disease which
finally incapacitatCd him from reign
iug and made tho appointment Of o
regent necessary manifested ITSELF
merely in ucContri,Itv But. when
Ludwig died on June 10, 1856, with
out leaving an heir 20 he throac, his
younrer brother otto. Who succeeded
TO the throne under the Bayarlap
constitution. was already insane. This
tact preoluded his actral accession
aui while he was nominallv -eoupHiz-
ed rs the lawful king and his head
WAS stamped upon the coins OF tho
realm. Prince Luitpold continued a.
regent, To- the complete satisfaction
rt be- Hayariun people
nttos insanity f.rsi manifested
itself daring the Frlnco-Prussian
war when the prince then only tween
ty-two years at age. held "A commits.
sion in the German army. Ills lC.
lions we're so peculiar and Wroasou-
able that II was considered hes; ~
call the yoIng prince to staff head
quarters, decorate him for his ser.
vices and seld mm back home under
escort ln the hope that his ronGi.
ton would improve. he was sent 10
the castle Of Fuorstenried, where he
was kent under strict Surveillance 1rl
careful! observation.
HHi the loor madmau's ,pnditio'
iid not improve His disease pio-
crossed and developed through us
various stages and when Otto suc
eclen Z. the throne he was So fac
advanced IN his disease that learned
SPECIALISTS pronounced Il as incur
able Since no was first taken -
castle Fu'-stelried. Cro has never
le,, the enclosures Of The bcautifu,
estate '>cnut lor occasional drives
during thu first few years of his COZ;
fincment As the disease progressed
and the par0Nis1s OF violence -
which tie king was subject became
more irepuen, and less controllahle
these drives had to De abandoned as
II was considered undesirable ~ al
low the people 10 witness such VIC.
lent outbreaks.
Surrounded by faithful attendants