Show DEATH HEArn LEGEND a Of f I New Version of Austri Austrian n I Crown Prince Tragedy Put F Forward By MAURICE A. A HALLGREN United Pr PrEss ss Staff Correspondent a March SeeminglY IS-SeeminglY tho legend ot of will not I down I It has been foUr decades since Crown Prince Rudolph of I and his mistress the ear oid Marie Marje were dead in fn 1 Chateau near Vienna That they killed themselves has been fairly welt well established nevertheless ne the legend le- le e- e gend end that the they were murdered continues con con- to grow and to find audIences There are arc at least tour four popular solutIons ot of the crime at present i in One has bas It that n a simple woodsman or peasant killed tho paIr but the motive o varies aries with the narrator Another on- on outraged kinsman ot Marie lot rol thE woodsman A third that Rudolph shot his ss and nd then In the tho midst ot of a drunken rever revelry umber Number four em- em employing as the was as a iw fe weeks celes ngo igo upon the occasion occasion oc- oc casion ot of the th anniversary annh ot of the tho tragedy given Ilven new life by no a nou u conservative Berlin 1 per er PUBLISHES PA PAPERS ERS ThIs pUblished what were represented as authentic documents supporting th the theory that the fiance flance ot of the young oung baroness was the murderer According to this orlon erSton he broke Into the where herc ho and the crown prince were sleeping and without prelimInary nary formalities tired the shot which disposed ot of his alleged rival ir 11 loeher bye e Thereupon her upon Marie unhesitatingly took look her oWn life lite I Critics ot of this solution however howe assert that MarIe was not engaged to 10 be married although h It was sas understood un- un at the time that she was vas lioon to be betrothed to Duke dig Ug ot of Braganza Moreover 1 thel point with considerable satisfaction ion tion to th tb biography ot of the crown prince published n. n fe few months R ngo which was by Baron von IUs erstwhile keeper leeper of the royal Toyal archives ot of Austria The biography blog- blog raphy raph Is said to contain documentary tary i e evidence enco which makes it Impossible impossible Im- Im possible to accept any but ut the sui- sui theor theory It Ic-as Ic on January 28 1889 that Crown Prince Rudolph h accompanied by his In brothe Prince ot of Coburg and by Count drove o out to ostensibly for or a few tew days dars ot of shooting flu Ru dolph however howe J. J himself from the dugout pleading a bad cold The followIng he dined Rone with Count Hoos and retired early arly his servant man to awaken him for break break- ast at In the tho morning BODIES DISCOVERED When the next morning th the prince failed to respond to Los Los- chek's repeated knocking knocking- Prince Philipp and Hoyos were summoned and they broke In th the locked door ot of RUdolph's chamber On the bed Rudolph and Marie Marle lay dead each with a bullet wound In the right temple In n his right hand tho index in- in dex finger still tightly grippIng the trigger Rudolph held a revolver which when broken open was ras found to contain two empty cartridges Near his left hand lay a a. mirror which he apparently had used In Int t aim During DurinS' the tho night ot of th the ot of January the body ot of the prince was removed to the imperial palace The following night under even more nore remarkable circumstances the body of the baroness was taken out ot of Wrapped In a. a fur mantie man man- tie It was placed In a slUing sitting position post post- tion In a cab between two uncles ot of the girl and the cab was then driven oft off with unusual haste to the Private burial ground ot of a religious order And there without ceremony without benefit ot clergy and uner uner un- un er the cover ot of night a shallow grate was hurriedly dug and into this mean trench was lowered all that remained ot of the baron baron- ess Complying with ith thE legal forms ot of the th da day a a. protocol concerning the burial was drawn up by the two This read Within the communal precincts ot of was found a female corpse with a bullet wound In th head which was recognIzed by the undersigned witnesses wit wit- nesses Count Count Stockau and Herrn the uncles of the girl as that oZ ot Baroness Marie and th they y buried it in fri the Holy Cross |