WORKING ARCHDUKE.
LOXG-MISSIXG AUSTRIAN PKIXCJ3 KEAPPEAKS IX OHIO. ' Johann Orth, the long-missing Archduke Joltann Salvator of Austria, l'ri:i?p ut tile House of dlapsburg, has been discovered iu l'aincsville, Ohio. Orth married in 18U0* Emilc Stubel, a beautiful actress at a lJowery theatre, renounced all claim to succession, aad went to England. In May of the same year he and his wife left London on the sailing vessel Santa Margarita. The ship was j n last sighted on 13th July oft 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. Jfow he has turned up in Painesville, where he had 'been working as a machinist at £3 a week. He i 3 a feeble, white-bearded man of sixty, and s'ays he wants to be iburicd in Austria. After telling the story of his life he vanished again. Orth says he is the second cousin of the Emperor Francis Joseph. He declares that he landed at Cusatcna, south of Eio dc |a Plata, and agreed with his wife to fight his own (battles' in the New World. He bought a ranch ; n Argentina, and lived on it for seven
yeare, his two children, Anna Jlargic and Leopold, being bom in 1397 and 1898. The family were in Martinique in the calamitous year of 1902, and the wife and children perished in the ruins of St. I'ierre. He wandered from the West Indies to the United States, and ieturned to Paris. He says that someone in that city tried to assassinate him, and he went back to America, where lie has' picked up a precarious existence ever since. The Austrian Ambassador in Washington, when shown a photograph of the claimant, admitted the resemblance to the Emperor's brother, but was unable to identify it.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 138, 10 July 1909, Page 4
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338WORKING ARCHDUKE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 138, 10 July 1909, Page 4
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