JOHN ORTH MYSTERY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 233, 20 February 1913, Page 8

JOHN ORTH MYSTERY

TRAVELLER 'CONVINCED THAT THE ARCHI'I'IsE \< MAW-:. A curious *lory is ii.iii in ii Hueuos Ayres newspaper of <i traveller who thinks lie. has discovered nlivc. John Orth, otherwise Hie Archduke .lolm Salvalor of Austria. Al. -Ccuae, a Frenchman, travelling in the country, knocked at a farmhouse door to ask for a drink, and a farm hand brought him water in a silver goblet. As the cup was embla/.nned. and the crest on it was a double-headed eagle, with an imperial crown, At. Celiac asked to whom it belonged. To his master, Don Ramon, said the man. The .frenchman asked to see Don Ramon, who proved to be a tall, militarylooking, distinguished, elderly man. After thanking him, the Frenchman suddenly asked Don Ramon, ''Did you ever know John Orth?" Don Ramon seemed annoyed, and answered with irritation, "Why should T have known John Orth? And, supposing I did know him. what then? He is dead. isn't lie? And you might go about telling everybody that the whilom Archduke John Salvalor of Austria, who renounced all his titles and his name, is still alive. '<t nobody would believe you. Dead in. n don't come to life again." M. Cenae is convinced that Don Ramon is John Orth.