TANGLED SKEIN OF LOVE AND SORROW
0 TRAGIC STORY OF MRS. STEANE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, November 10. Mrs. Steano's story reveals a tangled skein of lovo and sorrow. It is stated that tho late Emperor Francis Joseph gave a priest .C 50.000 for her up-bringing and education in America, under tho liamo of Alma Vcrcora, and eho appeared io receivo largo supplies of money from Austria. Being remarkably beautiful, alio fascinated many pien, and married at the age of 17 a Canadian stocldbroker, who took her to Vienna, but failed to gain an audience with the Emperor. Sho returned to New York, and entertained regularly, moving in tlio most exclusive and tho gayest society. She divorced .her husband after several brilliant seasons in New York, and married another Canadian. who shortly divorced her on tho ground of desertion.
Early in the war she came to London, where she made many aristocratic friend', and became engaged to a distinguished soldier. The engagement was broken off, and as the result she lieeame melancholy, and wrote to a friend, staling that sho intended to follow her parents' examplo and commit suicide. She took poison, but recovered. v Scotland Yard's inquiries show tlint her income from Austria ceased a month ago. Her husband slates that this lind no' effect upoi her. as ho had ample moans, and she continued spending lavishly, civing parties and dances in her (Int. She was ono of the most beautiful dancers in London, and was in great demand at privato society halls, wliero she wore most artistic dresses, enhancing the notable beauty of her figure. Sho confided to a fri»nd that, as the child of Prince Rudolf's unfortunate infatuation, she was doomed to unhappiness. When sho married Stenne, the places for the names of the bri'do's parents were left blank.
The newspapers, after examining the facts, conclude that sho was Kndolf'a daughter, but a London stockbroker, who lived in Vienna at the. time of tha Tioyal tra«;edv and was a friend of the Vercera family, declares that (he v Prince and tho Baroness had no child. Ho gives a new version of Prince Rudolf's death, stating that tho Baroness, then 19, was affianced to Count Hoyos, an intimate friend of Rudolf. Hoyos learned that the Baroness was staying at Meverling, and. knowing th» nature of Rudolf's amours, burst into tho house, and 6hot tho Baroness: then, shouting.'"You are not worth a bullet," crashed in Rudolf's skull with a silver candlestick. An equerry shot the Count, and the Hapsbnrgs circulated the story that tha lovers jiad committed suicide.—Aus.-N.Z. Cabls Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 48, 20 November 1919, Page 7
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431TANGLED SKEIN OF LOVE AND SORROW Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 48, 20 November 1919, Page 7
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