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Show 'AUSTRIAN NOBLE-I NOBLE-I HAN StiCfDES Sail 1-akc, Feb. 20. Attracted by a strange oaor of drugs omanatjng ffom room J03 at tho Albert hotel, employes of the hotel forced the door at 5 o'clock yesterday aiternoon and found the body of Count Rainer Paltry, first scion oi me Hoube oi Komarom, Aus-trla.IIungary, Aus-trla.IIungary, upon the bod. the oaor was tnat of opium. Gnawed Gnaw-ed by a sorrow, the secret of which even death had railed to reveal, tho count, who for three weeks had been a sojourner In Bait Lake under his American name ot Paul Af Rainer. had swallowed opium, boiled to lis liquid fofm. Suicidal intent was obvious. On tho nritlng table was found a. letter addressed ad-dressed to George B. T&IIferro, an attorney at-torney of San Antonio, Texas, giving directions as to the disposal of tho count's estate in Texas. The police learned Jast night that Cqunt PalfTy had lost ?3,S)0 last week betting on horses running at, Juarez and posted in a local pool room. It was also leal-nod that he Jost hoally the preceding week and thai his losings los-ings Blnce his arrival in Salt Lake probably total more than $5,000 cash. Several of his acquaintances were found in the pool rooms. One of theso iuformed the police that Pa Iffy clalm-.ed clalm-.ed to be connected -with the famous Rainer family, said to be one of tho noblest lines In the Austrian empire. Theodore Roosevelt 'was tho guest of a prominent nobleman of that name when he stopped in Austria on Mb tour of Europe following the African expedition. Within that letter was another addressed ad-dressed to Mrs. Anna B. Fullerlon of San Antonio, into which the Austrian nobleman had pourod tho secrets of an aching heart a few minutes before swallowing the fatal potion. This let-letter, let-letter, couched in tragic, extravagant langungo of a troubled lover, Is held by the coroner to bo dellvorcd to her for whom It was written The majoi portion of tho contents are withheld on the gTound of being purely personal. per-sonal. Those extracts made public by tho coroner, though stating no cause for the suicide, carry between the lines the notes of a tragedy, deep, though veiled The letter to the attorney reveals Rainer's real identity as the eldest son of the House of Komarom, Austria-Hungary, and shows him to have been a man of considerable wealth located In and near Texas The let. ter Is in the naturo of a will, in which the woman, Mrs Fullerton, Is named as the sole hclres6. Count Palffy came to Salt Lake January Jan-uary 26, accompanied by a woman who registered at the Albert hotel as his wife. She left two day3 later, taking her baggage with her, and from that time until hlB death the count Is said to have lived a lonely, morbid life According to the hotel employes, he never associated with pany one aftor the woman left and never appeared to have any business In tho city. He frequently played tho races, his aristocratic, though mournful mourn-ful countenance having been seen nearly 'evor-J day mingled with the pool-room gamjilers. rFrom what could be learned 'last night he lost heavily playing certain horses on Mexican and Texas race ..courses. |