Declares Rudolph Was A Conspirator.

New York Times 100 years ago today, May 1, 1913:
Countess Larisch Says the Crown Prince Plotted Against the Throne of His Father.
JOHN ORTH HER INFORMANT
Long-Missing Archduke, She Says, Told Her the Emperor's Heir Had More Than One Reason for Suicide.
By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times.
    LONDON, April 30.—Eveleigh Nash to-day published in England Countess Marie Larisch's loudly heralded book "My Past," which the Putnams are publishing in America.
    The principal feature of the work is, of course, the chapters in which the Countess claims to throw new light on the Meyerling tragedy. She declares that Archduke Rudolph committed suicide not only because of an unhappy, love affair, but because he had conspired against the throne of his father, Emperor Francis Joseph. Knowledge of the latter fact, the Countess says, only reached her some time afterward when she met a mysterious stranger who turned out to be Archduke John of Tuscany (John Orth).
    The story, which is not likely to be fully accepted as a correct version of the Meyerling tragedy, nevertheless has all the interest of a melodramatic romance.
    Countess Larisch is now in London visiting Mrs. Ffoulkes, who, it is understood, helped in the preparation of the book for publication.
    While the Meyerling chapters are the sensational feature of the book, the general reader will probably be more interested in the picture it gives of the ill-fated Empress Elizabeth of Austria, who, according to the author, her niece, left an autobiography which cannot be published until forty-five years after her death.
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    Crown Prince Rudolph, only son of Emperor Francis Joseph, was found dead in a hunting box at Meyerling on Jan. 30, 1889. He was born in 1858, and in 1881 married Princess Stephanie of Belgium. It was not until a considerable time after the tragedy that it became publicly known that not only the dead body of the Archduke, but also the body of a beautiful woman, Baroness Marie Vetsera, was discovered in the Meyerling hunting box.
    Archduke John of Tuscany did not disappear until 1891, so Countess Larisch's book does not throw any new light on the fate of that Prince, who renounced his rank and titles and sailed for South America after taking the name of John Orth. He has been many times reported to have been seen in various parts of the world, and several persons have claimed to be the missing Archduke, but the general opinion is that he perished at sea with the woman whom he married and for whose sake he gave up his royal position.
    Empress Elizabeth of Austria was assassinated at Geneva in 1898.
    The story of the Meyerling tragedy as revealed in the Countess Marie Larisch's memoirs will be told in the Magazine Section of next Sunday's Times.