FULL TEXT: London, Nov. 1. – Details of the love tragedy of Prince Leopold Coburg, nephew of King Ferdinand of Bulgaria and the beautiful Lottie a, in Vienna, have been received hero from Budapest. Report of the girl's death is confirmed. The prince is still living. [He died from his injuries on April 27, 1916]
The
prince, who is thirty-seven, and the girl, who was eighteen, met two years ago
at a high social function. Their meeting was a case of love at first sight. The
prince convinced the
girl that he would be able to overcome the Inexorable rules preventing the
marriage of members of royalty with commoners.
Despite
the opposition of the girl's father, who is a high official of the Austrian
state police, Miss Rybichka gave up her home and traveled with the prince
throughout the country. Finally the couple took apartments in Vienna, where the
tragedy occurred.
The
reconstructed story is that the girl urged marriage before the departure from
Vienna. The prince futilly endeavored to obtain his father's consent.
His
efforts in this direction falling, the prince offered the girl half a million
kronen as recompense. This offer the girl refused. The prince I then pointed
out marriage was impossible and tried to break off relation? with the girl, in
obedience to his father's orders.
Seeing
the hopelessness of her plight, the girl, threw vitriol in the prince's face,
destroying one eye and injuring the other, and followed the acid with four
shots from a revolver which she had kept concealed, four bullets finding
lodgment in the prince's body.
Then
she turned the weapon upon herself with fatal effect.
[“Prince
Figures In Love Tragedy - Blinded and Shot By Young Girl Who Ends Her Own
Life.” syndicated, The Democratic Banner (Mt. Vernon, Oh.), Nov. 2, 1915, p. 1]
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Wikipedia: Leopold
Clement Philipp August Maria (19 July 1878, Szent-Antal,
Hungary - 27
April 1916, Vienna);
he died when a prostitute flung acid in his face.
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