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THE CHINA MAİL, DECEMBER 1, 1930
TO-DAY'S STRANGE STORY OF REAL PEOPLE
THE MAYERLING TRAGEDY
By VINCENT TOWNE
All of the hopes of Franz Josef when Emperor of Austria-Hungary, were centred in his only son. the Crown Prince Rudolf. This promising young man was married to the Prin- cess Stephanie, daughter of Leopold II, King of the Belgians, but the union was unhappy. Rudolf was of a lively disposition, carefree, dashing and fond of adventure, while his wife was moody, sullen and jealous. Thus were supplied two points of the "eternal triangle." The woman in the case was the beautiful, young and wealthy Baroness Marie Vetsera, only 17 at the time.
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THE TRAGEDY OF MAYERLING. “
zine published an article on the Ma- yerling 'mystery. The author. quoted two persons' opinions that Rudolf and Marle were murdered by Rudolf's sup- posed friend, Philip, Duke of Coburg. According to one informant the mo- tive was politics. According to the other it was Jedlousy, the Duke, a wi- dower at the time being Marle's nance
This same article quoted a third in- formant's theory that the two lovers committed suicide on being informed that Marie Vetsera was a half-sister of Rudolf, Emperor Franz Josef being her father.
Crown Princess Stephanie, whóm the Mayerling tragedy cheated out of the throne of Austria-Hungary, was known as "Europe's unhappiest Prin- cess" during the next 17 years, and until her marriage in 1906 to Prince Elmer Von Lonyay. At her husband's 110-room castle on the Danube she ted suicide, and great excitement re-itative encyclopedia records its skep- told the Associated Press in November sulted. But a third shock was in ticism of the official account of his 1937 that she knew without question store for the subjects of Franz Josef. death by stating that he was "believ- that Rudolf had committed suicide, There gradually leaked out the fact ed" to have taken his own life. she having viewed his body after the that the corpse of Baroness Marle In 1937 a New York weekly maga- | tragedy. Vetsera had been found with that of the Crown Prince.
For some time Princess Stephanie had wished a divorce, and Rudolf was willing to supply her with all of the legal grounds that she needed but his stern father, the Emperor, forbade such procedure. Rudolf like his cou-
Then followed a long list of con- sin, the Grand Duke Johann Salvator,flicting theories as to the cause of the offered to relinquish all of his honours Mayerling tragedy. According to one for the woman he loved--to give up story, Rudolf, during the
gay house his rights to the throne if he could but party at the castle, had told the Bar- oness of his father's refusal to allow his divorce and that she, unwilling to live without him, had killed herself. Some say that she left a note beseach- ing him to follow her into eternity. and that upon finding this he had co- had lain upon the floor beside vered her body with a pall of flowers, couch and blown out his brains with un army pistol.
wed Marle Vetsera.
Rudolf arranged a gay houseparty late in January, 1889. The scene was the castle of Mayerling, 12 miles from Vienna. His beloved Marie was one of the guests. On the morning of January 30, one of Rudolf's servants entered his bedchamber in a hunting lodge on the castle grounds and be- held a scene which turned his blood cold. Before him the sole heir to the
throne of Austria-Hungary lay dead. At first it was given out that the young Crown Prince during the night had died of apoplexy, but as he was only 30 and possessed of a magnificent physique, this story was not credited by medical men, and the suspicion be- came broadcast that the public was being deceived by the court bulletins.
Lafer, there was issued an an- nouncement that Rudolf had commit-
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According to a further theory the lovers, as soon as they discovered their marriage was hopeless, had upon a suicide pact, that Rudolf agreed to shoot the Baroness between the shoulder blades and that he left a note explaining that he had placed the bullet where it would not "mar her beauty."
There was another story that Marie herself had shot Rudolf and had then taken poison. And it was further re- lated that the Crown Prince while hunting had been shot by a peasant whom he had once subjected to cruel- Marle, ty, whereupon the Baroness upon seeing his body brought back to the castle, had committed suicide from grief.
Some time after the tragedy, a New York paper published evidence pur- porting to prove that Rudolf and his beloved Marie were living in volun- tary exile in America under assumed names, and other papers have from time to time hinted that the story of been a the Mayerling tragedy had hoax designed to cover up a scandal and enable him to lose himself in for- eign lands. Several times, it was re- ported that Rudolf had been seen in various parts of America. An author-
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