Bridgeton pioneer., 1914-09-03
A Fatal Farewell.

revived, and he agreed to meet her
that night in hunting chateau near
by for last farewell. When the royal
family and guests assembled. for the
state dinner the crown prince could
not be found. After wait of several
hours word came that the bodies of
Rudolph and the Baroness Vetsera had
been found in room In the chateau.
For many years the affair was
shrouded in mystery. Only recently
Countess Larisch tore away the veil
in her book entitled my Past" Her
conclusion was that the lovers agreed
to die together, Rudolph Staying the
baroness and then himself.
The widowed Stephanie fell in love
with and married Count Elmer Lon
yay, young nobleman. The crown
princess lost her royal rank in Aus
tria and her native country through
the marriage.
Next In order the Archduke Johann
Salvatore fell in love with Mill Stubel,
a viennese dancer, and was refused
the right to marry her.
Finally, after d stormy interview
with the emperor, the archduke wrote
q terrific brochure against the Austrian
army, resigned all his, rank, took the
name of John Orth and departed from
Austria. In February, 1890, he met
Mill Stubel in London, where they
were married. They set sail on the
ship St Margarita for South America.
The vessel was wrecked, and nothing
authoritative has been heard of Sal
vatore since.
Every few years stories have cropped
out purporting to reveal the where
sbouts of the lost archduke.
Tragic Death of Wife.
AS deep and long lived a grief as any
borne by the emperor of sorrows came
through his wife. At the outset it
was love match, and for many years
the emperor and his consort were ideal
ly happy. The private lives of both
always were above reproach. But as
| years crept upon her the Empress Eliz-
abeth began to show the eccentricities
that have beset all her line.
Austria and its emperor became dis
tasteful to her; there were long alb
sences, domestic scenes and gossip.
| Finally Elizabeth decided to make her
own home and court At an expense
| Of 100000 she built on the beautiful
island Of Corfu, in the Mediterranean.
the remarkable castle of Achilleion.
Beyond this sum she spent on the
grounds and furnishings as much
more.
The empress spent her winters, her
autumns and springs at Corfu. The
rest of her time she Travelled. She had
come from Corfu only a short time.
and one day was walking in the sun
on the quay at Geneva with an at
tendant. She was making her way
along to little boat that was to carry
her to Montreux when a man darted
out Of a bevy, walked a moment near
the empress and then stabbed her
through the body with a stiletto.
She fell in trickle of her blood. The
man ran and for the time made his es-
cape. They carried her aboard the
boat, and there she died within half
an hour, thrust through vital spot
with the dagger, which had been fash
toned from small file. Within few
hours an Italian anarchist, Luigi Luc-
ceni, had been captured and confessed
his crime.
Own Life Thrice Menaced.
Thrice was the life Of the emperor
himself attempted. In 1853 at a re-
view in Vienna a Hungarian named
Joseph Libenyi tried to cut the emper-
or's throat before all his troops. Fran
CTS Joseph suffered slight wound.
The man was caught on the spot. On
the next day he was hanged.
In 1865 when the emperor was leav-
ing theater at Prague a man In the
crowd tried to kill him with a pistol
Rescue came from an odd source. A
British steamship engineer who chanc-
ed to be in Prague and near by sub
dued the assassin.
Trieste was the scene of the third at
tempt In 1882. Bombs were placed,
but failed to do their work. The chief
conspirator, Oyerdank, was executed.
The venerable monarch bore many
titles. The ''sorrowful emperor" was
one, justified by the three appalling
tragedies of brother, son and wife
the brother shot in Mexico, the son
slain in the mysterious tragedy of
Meyerling and the wife butchered by
an assassin in the year of his golden
Jubilee. The reform emperor they
called him when in 1867 the idea Of a
Ifcentralized Austrian empire gave way
to that of a dual Austro- Hungarian
monarchy, consisting of an indissoluble
federation of two equal states under a
single sovereign, each having a con-
stitution, government and representa-
/ tive parliament of its own.
The peace monarch he was called
In reference to the function of his realm
as the balance wheel of the European
diplomatic machine, until the present
war.