INTERNAL GERMANY.
v by Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) A NEW VERSION. AN AUSTRIAN TRAGEDY. (Received This Day at 9.45 a.m.) BERLIN, Oct. , 26. Ex-Archduke Leopold Ferdinand publishes in the “Morgenpost” a new version of the death of Archduke Rudolph of Austria. The Emperor urged him to break-off his intrigue with Baroness Vetsera and Rudolph agreed and went to see her for the last time. Among the guests at the Baroness’s house were two of her relatives, brothers, nam ed Hector, and Aristides Baltazzi, the former of whom had been engaged to the baroness. After dinner\the men drank deeply and a quarrel arose between the Baltazzis and Rudolph. Champagne bottles flew across the table shattering Rudolph’s skull. At that moment the Baroness entered the dining room, and one of the Baltazzis fired a revolver at the Baroness who fell dead beside Rudolph, in the midst of a scene of blood,-ami broken glass/ The guests were sworn to secrecy, and pledged to declare that the victims committed suicide. All participants in the drama are now dead. ~
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 October 1920, Page 3
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172INTERNAL GERMANY. Hokitika Guardian, 27 October 1920, Page 3
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