The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-11-24
BOY NAINER|CA I.
I Nl|AyG'|LAl IN THRONE !
He Is Rudolph Hayne and His
Mother Says He's Franz 3.
\ Iosef's GreatoraudsonI 4
Brought Lad,To America To Live
But Death Of Emperor May
Make Her Renew Claim

NEW YORK, November 22A-It Is
possible that a small boy now being
educated in the United States will lay
claim TO the succession Of the throne
of Austria: Hungary, for his mother has
long claimed that she is the child of
the late Crown Prince Rudolph and
Marie vetsefa, those two young lovers
who were found dead together in the
hunting lodge at Mayerling.
That there were any offspring as n
result of the romantic union between
Ffauz Josef's only son and Marie Vet.
sera'has been denied time and again in
Vienna, in Official circles, but the Aus'
TRAN capital has always rung with ru-
mOrs. .... a..
Mrs. Alma Vetsera Hayne, beauti-
| ful Young Austrian, who first came to
this side of the water some sixteen
years ago, asserts that she is the child
of the tragic love affair, and her hus-
band, from whom she is now divorced,
said several years ago that he believed
she was the "truest of all the Haps.
burgs."
She returned to this country in June,
ll9A, with her little son, who is named
Rudolph, after the prince whom Mrs.
Hayne claims as her father. At that
time Mrs. Hayne told friends that she
had abandoned the title Of "Princess
l'yetsera," and that she expected to
abandon Paris and London for many
Iyears, in order that her boy could be
i educated in America. ~,
May Press Sons Claim
l. CT don't want to live on the other
side any more,' she said recently.
"There are too many unhappy memo
.ries associated with it. I have built a
house now near New York, where l
4 have a real home.'
l. But since the assassination of the
former heir apparent, the rArchduke
Franz Ferdinand, and his consort and
the death Of the aged ruler, whom she
claims is her grandfather, it is prob
able that Mrs. Hayne will change her
mind.
l. The aged Emperor had been dying
by inches for months, so it is freely
said in Vienna. Optimistic reports Of
his condition were issued at frequent
intervals by the chamberlain at the
'ltImperial Hofb0rg, where he lay i'll, but
1.-the common people sitting on the park
benches in the Stadtwaldchen, in Buda.
pest, and the Wurstel Prater, in Wen
ma, have been surnising for the past
ten years what win happen when Franz
Josef dies.
\ One particular reason why Mrs.
Hayne will perhaps change her atti-
tude is because it has always been
tFranz Josef himself who preserved
such stern opposition to any irregu.
larity in the Hapsburg succession.
i After Rudolph was found dead more
than Twenty-Five years ago, the late
Emperor offered the succession to his
brother, Carl Ludwig, who declined.
The honor passed to Carl Ludwig 8
son.. Franz Ferdinand, who was killed
In 1874; but when Franz Ferdinand
contracted m6rganatic marriage the
Emperor made him renounce all rights
for his possible heirs. =,
This illustrates the unyielding posi-
|
Dual Monarchy. 1t might be, however,
that with the old rulers death Mrs.
Hayne would feel freer to push the
claim of her son.
Her Own Career Romantic
| She herself has had q rather roman.
tic time of it. She was married in
1907, in Toronto, to a stock broker
named George Osborne Hayne, but
about three years later one Justin B.
Macdougall, son Of Canadian Cobalt
capitalist, was mentioned in o. com
plpint 'Hayne filed with his swife's law
yer, James B. Egan, of SO Wall Street
this city. This difficulty, however,
was adjusted, for Macd ougall' s father
had his son arrested in Chicago, in No
yember, 1911, while Justin was hurry
ing east to marry Mrs. Hayne. The
young man was put in an asylum, and
Hayne read about j I'm the newspapers
and went around TO the Hotel Carlton
to effect q reconcile ation with his wife,
In January, 1914, Mrs. Hayne ap.
peared before a special master, Francis
Child Jr, in Newark, and charged her
husband with desertion. She said he
had left her in the. Windsor Hotel, in
Montreal, with her son Rudolph and an
unpaid bill of 5000. Then, she said,
she began to paint miniatures; but she
never heard from her husband again.
Except that at Christmas, 1912, he
sent his son letters and presents. The
master recommended q divorce.
Mrs. Hayne is small and slender,
with very wide and heavy.lidded blue
eyes, rather large but smiling mouth
and plenty of blond hair.
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