Archduke Meant To Vanish.

New York Times 100 years ago today, May 2, 1913:
"John Orth" Arranged for Communication by Cipher Advertisement.
By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times.
    LONDON, May 1.— Countess Marie Larisch, niece of the late Empress Elizabeth of Austria, interviewed today regarding the reasons that prompted her to write "My Past," declared that it was not for the sake of acquiring cheap, ephemeral notoriety. She added:
    "Many anonymous venomous publications have appeared on the subject, and I owed it to my family to exonerate myself from the slanderous charges leveled against me."
    As regards the unsolved problem of the existence or non-existence of Archduke John, (John Orth,) Countess Larisch emphatically declared that he was still living. "A day or two before he set out for an unknown destination," she said, "John Orth begged me, if I ever got into trouble over the Meyerling affair, to communicate with him by means of a cipher message in the Berliner Tageblatt."
    This, she added, she had not done, for the simple reason that the Austrian authorities had never interfered with her.