A PRINCE REAPPEARB.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 13983, 14 August 1909, Page 6

A PRINCE REAPPEARB.

Johann Orth, the long-missing Archduke Johann Salvator of Austria, Prince of the House of Hapsburg, has been discovered in Painsville, Ohio. Orth married in 1890 Emile Stubel, a beautiful- actress at Bowery- Theatre, renounced all claim to succession, and went' to England. In May of the same year he and his wife left London oft the sailing vessel Santa Margarita. That ship was last sighted on July 13 off Monte Video. There is no doubt that the Archduke Salvator was on that vessel, and the Austrian authorities were convinced that he lost his life in the shipwreck or on the Pacific Islands if he ever reached the shore. Every now and again it is asserted that the Archduke has been discovered, but he soon disappears again. Now he has' turned up in Painsville, where he had been working as a machinist at £3 a week. He is a feeble, whitebearded man of 60, and says he wants to be, buried in Austria. After telling the story of his life he vanished agaih. Orth says he is the second cousin of the Emperor Francis Joseph. He declares that he landed at Cusatena, south of Rio de la Plata, and agreed with his wife to fight his own battles in the New World. He bought a ranch in Argentina, and Kved on it for seven years, his two children, Anna Margie and Leopold, being born in 1897 and 1898. The family were in Martinique in the calamitous year of 1902, and. the wife and children perished in the ruins of St. Pierre. He wandered from the West Indies to the United States,- and returned to Paris. He says that someone in the city tried to assassinate him, and he went back to America, where he has picked up a precarious existence erer since. The Austrian Ambassador in Washington, "when shown a photograph of the claimant, admitted the resemblance to the Emberor's brother, but was unable to identify it.