THE LATE PRINCE RUDOLPH.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1852, 12 February 1889, Page 4

THE LATE PRINCE RUDOLPH.

London, February 7, Tho Daily News publishes a statement from its Yienna comapondnnt purporting to be the correct version of tho citcumetancea connected with Piince Rudolph’s death. According to this story a young Bohemian baroness who accompanied tho Archduke was accomodated in the quarters of the gamekeeper of the chateau. Rudolph visited the house at midnight, and an hour later a forester knocked loudly for the purpose of obtaining orders from tho gamekeeper. While he was knocking a man jumped from tho window. The forester fired, and discovered that he had wounded Rudolph in the shoulder. The lady, believing her lover to be dead, look poison, and tho Prince, upon recovering consciousness, was convoyed to the castle and there committed suicide. Peb. 8. The Vienna correspondent of the Daily News stales that the Emperor Francis telegraphed to the Pope that the cause of Prince Rudolph’s death was both suicide and a duel. A conclave of cardinals met, and it was reached to permit the burial to be accompanied with the rites of the Catholic Church. Vienna, February 8. At Laybnch, in tho Tyrol, Father Mervian refused to offer a requiem on behalf of Prince Rudolph. Nevertheless the congregation sang tho requiem without the aid of the choir, and forced tho soxton to toll the bell. Berlin, Feb. 9. The official agency denies tho statements of the Figaro, and publishes letters left by Prince Rudolph and a lady to Duke Bmzanda and the Bareness Kersera, the girl’s mother, Rudolph’s letters say that death was inevitable. The Baroness Kersera, in a letter co her mother, slates that her lov« for tho Prince was so great that she resolved to die with him.