GERMAN MYSTERY
STRANGER WHO DISAPPEARED. RUMOURED TO BE A HAPSBURG. DEATH BEFORE DISHONOUR. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). (Australian Press Association—United Service). Received September 20, 10.40 a.m. BERLIN, Sept. 19. The police are investigating the disappearance of a mysterious stranger who is rumoured to be a Prince of the House of Hapsburg. The man hired a boat on Lake Koenigsee and vanished. . He left an unsigned letter, stating that he had unknowingly financed a gang of bomb throwers and preferred death to dishonour.
The man requested that, if found, his body be not placed in the family vault, as his crowned ancestors would turn in their graves if they were lying next to a Socialist. He asked to be buried on the shores of his beloved Koenigsee.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 250, 20 September 1929, Page 7
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127GERMAN MYSTERY Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 250, 20 September 1929, Page 7
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