A TRAGIC FAREWELL
A ROMANCE OF ROYALTY SEQUEL TO A VIOLENT QUARREL (Sun Cable)* PARIS, March 30 Thirty-nine years after the Mayorling tragedy, when the Archduke Rudolf of Austria and the beautiful Maria Vetsera were found dead in the Imperial hunting lodge, the first authentic account appears in the memoirs of the late Empress Eugenic just published. It relates how Rudolf’s mother, the Empress Elizabeth, widow of the Emperor Francis Joseph, revealed the full story. It appears that Rudolf’s, after a violent quarrel with the Emperor, consented to break the liaison and gained permission for a last farewell of Maria who was awaiting dinner in the hunting lodge. He told her of the promise given to his father under threat of renouncing his rights to the throne. She replied coolly. They talked throughout the night and agreed to die together. Rudolf shot Maria in the heart, laid the body on the bed and covered it with roses from the vases. He then wrote to his mother a long letter in which he said: “I have killed someone. 1 have no longer a right to live.” At six in the morning Rudolf died with a bullet in his bruin.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20111, 2 April 1928, Page 3
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198A TRAGIC FAREWELL Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20111, 2 April 1928, Page 3
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