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...hunting lodge at Mayerling not far from Vienna the body of the Archduke Rudolf, only son & heir of the Emperor Franz Josef was found shot through the temple, lying by the side of his dead mistress, the beautiful Baroness Maria Vetsera...
...mysteries, a delight to novelists and playwrights. There were dozens of versions: Rudolf committed suicide. The pair were killed by a jealous husband. It was a political murder inspired by the Czechs, the Poles or one of the other minorities fighting for state's rights. Members of the Vetsera family murdered...
...Despite all that has since been written, the Crown Prince first shot the unhappy Baroness Vetsera through the temple and then shot himself. All other versions are pure fairy tales. . . . The Crown Prince abandoned life because he saw no hope of permanently uniting with little Maria Vetsera whom he loved uncontrollably...
IDYLL'S END-Claude Anet-Dodd, Mead ($2.50). On a morning in January, 1889, in a shooting lodge at Mayerling, Austria, the bodies of Crown Prince Rudolph, heir to the great Dual Monarchy, and Marie Vetsera, pretty young noblewoman, were found by horrified attendants. Since then controversy has raged: 1) whether they were both killed (by order of Emperor Francis Joseph); 2) whether they died voluntarily in a suicide pact. Author Claude Anet, and many another, thinks Rudolph shot Marie, then himself. Rudolph, as Author Anet shows him to us, was intelligent, able, liberal-minded. But he was married...
...England, of a fall from a ladder. He was obscure, frequently destitute, a recluse in his cottage. His death notice was to many the first intimation of his existence. Died. John W. Alden, 77, direct descendant of John and Priscilla Alden, famed Pilgrims; in Duxbury, Mass. Died. Baroness von Vetsera, 78, mother of the beautiful Countess Marie von Vetsera, who, in 1889, was found dead with Crown Prince Rudolf, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, in his hunting lodge near Vienna; at Payerbach, near Vienna, where she lived in seclusion. Died. Edmund Plummer, 93, last of the boys who suffered...