STRANGER DISAPPEARS
BELIEVED TO BE A PRINCE DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Australian Press Assn. —United Service.) (Received Sept, 20, noon.) BERLIN, Sept. 19. The police are investigating the disappearance of a mysterious stranger who is rumored to be a prince of the House of Hapsburg. Tho man hired a. boat on Lake Koouigsee and l vanished, leaving an unsigned letter stating that lie had unknowingly financed bomb throwers and preferred death to dishonor. He requested that if his body was found it would not be placed in the family vault, as his crowned ancestors would turn in their graves if lying next to a Socialist. He asked to he buried on the shores of his beloved Koenigsee.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17061, 20 September 1929, Page 7
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121STRANGER DISAPPEARS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17061, 20 September 1929, Page 7
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