PRINCESS; ROMANCE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9639, 14 January 1903, Page 1

PRINCESS; ROMANCE.

AT j TEMPTED " ELOPEMENT WITH Xl NG LEOY 'OLD'S DAUGHTER. i t VIENNA, December 4. Accoi Iling «(.o the Budapest evening >apers, Lieut anant Mattasich Keglevich nade a bold attempt to rescue Princess Louise i »I Cc iburg from the Liudendorf Asylum, near Dresden. He wi Jut to Dresden, and hovered iround ti 11 b o succeeded i« meeting the prisoner ■ jriv ing, and communicated to ler a ph m of flight. After a hurried :onversati on the /Princess returned to Lindstfjta i, \ promising to meet Keglevich Jie. foSp? ing • day m order to elope again. Keglevi .eh bribed the Princess* attenlatit, wb k> I >romised to help the lovers. She, how Tite r, betrayed the secret to tho ;>roprieU »r <\f the Lindendorf, who had jfceps tal :ea feo prevent the dopment. The. fcttendan .t t»i\ >te to KeglevksJi informing lim tha' I tile i 'reject liad failed, and that [ireeauti oils ha d been taJceu to l^eiwler further efforts , useless. Kt-gk .vie/ h r^tytmiJed to Budapest, where m an ii ate? cv\e\\r 'lie recounted the difficulties he a sperjeivccd before he wus able to speak to the "■•■Princess. He declared that she is perfectly si.ne, and tJiat his life's wo? cfs. would i>e to liberate "her. Referr incr to ' the statement published hi some of the journal that .the attempt to reset ie the Princess failed because she was it -luctant, Keglevk* declared that she cej -uinly was prevenU^d forcibly from going away with him. She complained of unhar .piiiess, and was eager 'or il'ght. It i i s several years since Lieu, cnant Mattasfcf a Keglevich eloped with J™e?s Loui se of Cobm-g, wife of PrintV Phi'm of i Joburg, and second daugiiter '*» '"» Kio gof the Belgians. The ruittways v:ei -c caught, and the Princess was fonfln ed to an asylum at Koswig, n«ar pj esden. The lieutenant was impnsonea Ie »r four years for forging the name of 1 'rincess Stephanie, Princess Louises sis'^er, and using the money thus obtained to satisfy the latter's extravagant tastes m dress and jewels. ;