Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-01-17

= seeing on the first glance that there
was no help, Count HOyOs at once ran
10 Baden. II shows how great the
I CONSERVATION and confusion was that
nobody thought of putting horses to a
carriage and to drive to Baden, which
is about -. hours distant from Mey-
erling Count Hoyos arrived in full
perspiration at the railway station
and requested the station master to
: stop the express train, which general
, ly does not take any passengers at
Baden The station master sternly
declined and as there was no second
to lose Count Hoyos informed him of
the sad news that the Crown Prince
had been shot, upon which the sta.
tiCn master could not resist any long
er. hut from this source the first
! traces led to the circumstance that
several persons knew the sad news
even before Count Hoyos arrived in
Vienna.
] have to mention that the police
had found out already on Tuesday,
the 29th, that Baroness Y. was in Mey-
erling and the president OF the police
reported that circumstance to the
minister of the interior. Count Taaffe,
asking for instructions. The latter
shrugged the shoulders and said that
nothing could be done.
While Count Hoyos went to Baden.
Loschek remarked to Prince Coburg
that it would be advisable to extin-
guish both candles, which were still
burning in the bedroom and evidently
had been burning all the night as they
were burnt down so far that the paper
with which they. were fixed in the
candlesticks was near to catch fire.
For this purpose both entered again
the bedroom and at this moment, step
ping near the bedside, they discover
ed to their utmost terror a second
corpse, that of young lady, in the
bed beneath the body of the Crown
Prince.
The head and hair were nicely ar
ranged on the pillow, the hands COW
cred over the breast and holding a
bouquet of May flowers. the favorite
flower of the Prince Rudolf.
She was shot in the breast.
This unexpected discovery, of whicl I
Count Hoyos had not the slightest
idea, as nobody even not Loschek was
aware that a lady was concealed in
the castle, increased the confusion at
Meverling and later in Vienna to the
utmost and complete perplexity.
The bedroom of the Crown Prince is
level with the ground Of the yard Of
the castle and therefore, as nobody
had ever seen Baroness " passing the
anteroom or corridors, where she
would have met unavoidably the valet
de chambre Loschek, II is supposed
that she entered the room through
the window, which also was found
open. et
However, as noon arrived the Com
mission Of the Chief Chamberlain's
office and two collins at Baden and
the people there and at Meyerling was
told that not knowing exactly the
size Of the Crown Prince. two coffins
were sent to choose the fitting one
At night both cnffins were brought
to Vienna. Princess Metteruich in
vited Thirty-first Baroness Vetscere
tthe mother to promenade on the
Ringstrasse with both her daughters,
for the purpose thus to contradict
lad oculus" the rumors which began
to be propagated in society. but re-
cefVed only letter from that lady
stating that fearful tragedy had hap
pened in her family.
The whole family V. left Vienna on
the 3lst of January.
The young B. V. left a letter for
her mother on the table in the bed.
room. asking her pardon and mention
ing that she could not let die her be-
loved Grown Prince alone and there
fore willingly Joined his fate.
Therefore she was not the reason
Of his suicide, which perhaps later
will be cleared up.
The last letters of the Crown
Princes hand addressed to his father
and the Crown Princess are very
short, but the letter which was ad-
dressed to his r>sther, the Empress. !
and dated from Vienna a few DAYS
earlier. it is said contains a full ac-
count of ali his complaints.
Nobody of the court, the imperial
family and even of the aristocrats in
his company have had an idea of any
intercourse whatever between Baron
ess V. and the Crown Prince.
II is said that the Crown Prince at
a recent occasion ventured to discuss
the question Of morganatic MARRIAGE /
but the Emperor Indignantly answer.
ed that as long as he is alive he never
would give the permission Of such a
disgrace Of the imperial family.
Vienna. February the 9Th. 1889.