The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-21
ADvENTURER TO
VISIT EDEN TO
PROBE MYSTERY
Fate of Blond Empress,
Two Lovers Sought by
American.

BIZ United Press
LOS ANGELES. Nov. 21.-An
American yacht leaving here Friday
for the equatorial Pacific may learn
the fate of Baroness EloiSa BOsquet
de Wagner Wehrborn, blond en-
press of the Enchanted Isles" and
Robert PhilippSOn, her German
sweetheart, it was indicated today.
Dispatches from Guayaquil, Ecua-
dor, nearest land point to the En-
chanted isleS-Galapagos, or Tur-
tie islands, on the map-hinted
that the bodies Of the baroness and
PhilippSon might be found on
Floreana island, whence they dis
appeared without trace March 3d.
Discovery on the nearby barren
volcanic island of Maichena of two
bodies only began to obscure the
mystery of the baroness fate and
that of the handsome, carefree
German who cast his lot with her,
content to serve her and call her
queen.
The bodies were found by Captain
Manuel Rodrigues, in his San Diego
tuna fisher Santa Amaro. They
seemed to be those of Alfredo Ru-
dolph Lorenz, muscular German
business man whom Philippson had
replaced in the baroness affections,
and Captain Nuggerud, Nor
wegion yachtsman.
Baroness, Lover Disappear
Lorenz was the last man to see the
baroness and Philippson.
Before the baroness and her
sweetheart disappeared there had
been trouble in the little home she
and the two men maintained, she as
the empress"
After their disappearance, Lorenz
left the island with Nuggerud and
Negro deck hand of Nuggerud's
yach Dinamita. The deck hands
fate seems impossible to determine.
Captain G. Allen Hancock, Los
Angeles oil man and science en-
thusiast, will sail with ten Smith
sonian Institute scientists for the
Enchanted islands Friday.
Captain Hancock has announced
they will try to solve the mystery
that has risen regarding the disap-
pearance of the baroness and
Philippson as we'll as the death of
Lorenz and Nuggerud.
The few facts in the latest of the
Galapagos many mysteries have
come from Los Angeles, Paris,
Guayaquil, a radio entertainer
yacht in the South Seas, and from
fragmentary wireless messages and
old letters from the islands.
Planned Dream Resort
Rolph Blomberg, Norwegian news
paper man, and Professor Martin
Voegel, German scientist, the travel
ers who reported the disappear
ances, filled in some blanks of the
story of the romantic minded trio
who went to the iSlandS-the
baroness, former proprietor of a
Paris curio shop, woman familiar
with the gay life of European CAPT.
tails, and Philippson and Lorenz,
German business men, who had
fallen in love with her, and who with
her were willing to abandon the
world they knew for life on trop-
ical island.
They left Paris several years ago
for the South Seas to seek a life Of
beauty and serenity on some island
untouched by civilization. The ba-
ronesS had conceived a plan of set
ting up little empire there, with
herself, young and beautiful, and
ready for any adventure, as empress,
and the two men as her courtiers.
In her madcap brain she planned
with her ample supply of money to
establish q dream resort.
The three arrived on Floreana.
They built hut against the rocks,
laid out a garden, and called it
paradise" For a time the three
lived in happiness. Lorenz was the
head man in the baroness affec-
lions, reports said. her favorite and
prime minister.
PhiIippsOn New FavOrite
AS time passed slowly in the lazy
islands, Philippson, jovial, of the
good fellow type, f1ourished in the
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