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55. Larisch, My Past, 303–4; Judtmann, 81.
56. Mary Vetsera to Hermine Tobias, letter of November 5, 1888, in Der Vetsera Denkschrift, 29–32, in Markus and Unterreiner, 244–45.
57. Der Vetsera Denkschrift, 35–37, in Markus and Unterreiner, 246; Hoyos Addendum, in HHS, Box 21; also in Mitis, 281.
58. Hoyos Addendum, HHS, Box 21; also in Mitis, 281; Krauss report on Bratfisch, February 2, 1889, quoted in Loehr, 106.
59. Judtmann, 82.
60. Barta, 37.
61. Der Vetsera Denkschrift, 24, in Markus and Unterreiner, 241.
62. Ibid., 49–53, in Markus and Unterreiner, 251.
63. Der Vetsera Denkschrift, 48, 64, in Markus and Unterreiner, 250, 255; Lónyay, 157; Thiele, Crown Prince Rudolf, 84; Morton, Nervous, 131.
64. Morton, Nervous, 153.
65. Larisch, My Past, 244–47.
66. Louise of Belgium, 108.
67. Baltazzi-Scharschmid and Swistun, 193; Hoyos Addendum, HHS, Box 21; also in Mitis, 281; Morton, Nervous, 175.
68. Friedrich, Der Kriminalfall Mayerling, 63.
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1. Rudolf to Szeps, letter of August 21, 1888, in Szeps, Politische Briefe, 163–64
2. Corti, Empress Elisabeth, 350.
3. Lónyay, 142; Judtmann, 21; Salvendy, 125–26.
4. Mitis, 127; Stephanie, 147; Margutti, 83.
5. Chlumecky, 38.
6. Rudolf, will of April 15, 1879, in Mitis, 200–201.
7. Mahaffy, 167–68; Listowel, 155.
8. Taylor, Habsburg Monarchy, 156–58; Mahaffy, 170; Jászi, 12, 103.
9. Barkeley, 66.
10. Rudolf to Szeps, letter of November 24, 1882, in Lónyay, 85.
11. Barkeley, 79–81; Listowel, 79.
12. Rudolf to Latour von Thurmberg, letter of December 2, 1881, HHS, Box 16; also in Mitis, 205–7.
13. Szeps, My Life and History, 51; Szeps, Politische Briefe, 27–32.
14. Cassels, Clash, 63; Cassels, Archduke and the Assassin, 14.
15. Rudolf to Franz Ferdinand, letter of November 26, 1884, in Nachlass Erzherzog Franz Ferdinand, HHS, Box 5, cited in King and Woolmans, 18.
16. Lónyay, 87.
17. Szeps, My Life and History, 66
18. Listowel, 141; Morton, Nervous, 61–62.
19. Rudolf to Szeps, letter of November 19, 1882, HHS, Box 17.
20. Szeps, My Life and History, 35; Chlumecky, 30.
21. Judtmann, 34
22. Salvendy, 65; Lónyay, 97.
23. Listowel, 173; Stephanie, 230; Morton, Nervous, 10; Barkeley, 187; Judtmann, 23.
24. Mitis, 65.
25. Jászi, 151–52; Lónyay, 92–93; Mitis, 90.
26. Listowel, 62.
27. Salvendy, 131.
28. Strong, 58.
29. Cited in Salvendy, 133.
30. Margutti, 90.
31. Stephanie, 239.
32. Marie Valerie, diary entry of April 30, 1888, in Schad and Schad, 142–43.
33. Hamann, Kronprinz, 389–90.
34. Lónyay, 140; Salvendy, 150–51.
35. Cited in Salvendy, 168–69; Listowel, 156.
36. Cited in Salvendy, 166.
37. Morton, Nervous, 10, 115.
38. Listowel, 199.
39. Wilhelm II, 240.
40. Lambsdorff, 198–99; Listowel, 185; Morton, Nervous, 109.
41. Mitis, 107, 268–69; Listowel, 195–96; Barkeley, 198–200.
42. Morton, Nervous, 114–15, 177.
43. Quoted in Lónyay, 149; Rudolf to Szeps, letter of November 8, 1888, HHS, Box 17; also in Szeps, Politische Briefe, 166.
44. Salvendy, 161; Mitis, 171.
45. Rudolf to Szeps, letter of November 8, 1888, HHS, Box 17; Lónyay, 149.
46. Franzel, 81; Stephanie, 25; Mitis, 48–49.
47. Stephanie, 35–37; Listowel, 170; Markus, 90–91; Salvendy, 140.
48. Salvendy, 161–62.
49. Thiele, Crown Prince Rudolf, 73.
50. Stephanie, 240–41.
51. Corti, Empress Elisabeth, 373.
52. Marie Valerie, diary entry of May 4, 1886, cited in Hamann, Reluctant Empress, 323.
53. Marie Valerie, diary entry of August 2, 1889, in Salvendy, 179.
54. Morton, Nervous, 134.
55. Paget, Linings, 2:468.
56. Paget, Embassies, 2:454–55.
57. Mitis, 201.
58. Morton, Nervous, 65–66, 124.
59. Ibid., 86, 133–34.
60. Listowel, 187; New York Times, February 4, 1889.
61. Mitis, 236.
62. Larisch, My Past, 259–60.
63. Lónyay, 201; Hoyos Addendum, HHS, Box 21; also in Mitis, 282.
64. Listowel, 92.
65. Der Polizeibericht, 46; Corti, Empress Elisabeth, 390; Bibl, 176; Salvendy, 186–87; Markus, 78.
66. Bibl, 176–77.
67. Lónyay, 155.
68. Stephanie, 249.
69. Der Polizeibericht, 46; Corti, Empress Elisabeth, 390; Bibl, 176; Salvendy, 186–87; Markus, 78.
70. Bibl, 176; Listowel, 207; Lónyay, 152; Mitis, 226.
71. Hamann, Reluctant Empress, 339; Listowel, 207; Morton, Nervous, 177–79; Salvendy, 144–45.
72. Morton, Nervous, 179.
73. Marie Valerie, diary entry of December 24, 1888, in Schad and Schad, 164–65.
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1. Morton, Nervous, 185–91.
2. Ibid., 184.
3. Ibid., 213.
4. Rudolf to Stephanie, letter of December 31, 1888, in Stephanie, 242.
5. Rudolf to Szeps, letter of December 27, 1888, in Szeps, Politische Briefe, 168.
6. Szeps, My Life and History, 117; Mitis, 271–73.
7. Morton, Nervous, 214.
8. Stephanie, 245.
9. Morton, Nervous, 221; Hoyos Memorandum, HHS, Box 21; also in Mitis, 275.
10. Stephanie, 243.
11. Louise of Belgium, 109.
12. Der Vetsera Denkschrift, 56–57, in Markus and Unterreiner, 253; Barkeley, 218; Markus, 29.
13. Mary Vetsera to Hermine Tobias, letter of January 14, 1889, in Der Vetsera Denkschrift, 54, in Markus and Unterreiner, 252.
14. Baltazzi-Scharschmid and Swistun, 195; Der Vetsera Denkschrift, 57–58, in Markus and Unterreiner, 253; Markus, 29; Hoyos Addendum, HHS, Box 21; also in Mitis, 282.
15. Larisch, My Past, 227.
16. Der Vetsera Denkschrift, 28, in Markus and Unterreiner, 244.
17. Ibid., 38, in Markus and Unterreiner, 247.
18. Ibid., 42, in Markus and Unterreiner, 248.
19. Ibid., 59–61, in Markus and Unterreiner, 254–55.
20. Ibid., 4–5, in Markus and Unterreiner, 237; Baltazzi-Scharschmid and Swistun, 195.
21. Larisch, My Past, 256, 286–88; Larisch conflates and jumbles this event in her memoirs as two separate meetings, but it seems clear that this happened on January 26.
22. Der Vetsera Denkschrift, 11–13, in Markus and Unterreiner, 239.
23. Paget, Embassies, 465.
24. Morton, Nervous, 222–23.
; 25. Stephanie, 35; Markus, 69; Hollaender, in Hantsch and Novotny, 151; Lambsdorff, 178, Mitis, 156–57.
26. Margutti, 95.
27. Sophie von Planker-Klaps, in Neues Wiener Journal, January 27, 1920.
28. Rudolf Püchel, in Reichspost, January 31, 1926.
29. Hoyos Memorandum, HHS, Box 21; also in Mitis, 275.
30. Larisch, My Past, 277–82.
31. Der Vetsera Denkschrift, 63, in Markus and Unterreiner, 255.
32. Ibid., 25, in Markus and Unterreiner, 240.
33. Judtmann, 43–44. In her memoirs Louise mistakenly placed this encounter on the afternoon of January 29, by which time Rudolf had already arrived at Mayerling.
34. Louise of Belgium, 110.
35. In Corti and Sokol, 117–18.
36. Larisch, My Past, 267–70.
37. Le Figaro, February 3, 1889; Le Matin, February 5, 1889; Le Temps, February 7, 1889.
38. See Lónyay, 161; Monts, 104–5; Neues Wiener Journal, June 2, 1923; Judtmann, 47, for both this story and for a refutation.
39. Szeps, My Life and History, 120.
40. Der Polizeibereicht, 45–47.
CHAPTER 8
1. Rudolf Püchel, in Reichspost, January 31, 1926; Friedrich, Der Kriminalfall Mayerling, 108–9.
2. Der Vetsera Denkschrift, 17, 86, in Markus and Unterreiner, 240, 262.
3. Markus, 5, 75; Barta, 41; Larisch, My Past, 301.
4. Judtmann, 62, 79, 84–86; Larisch, My Past, 302–3.
5. Larisch, My Past, 304–5.
6. Ibid., 306–12.
7. Judtmann, 74, 93.
8. Larisch, My Past, 312–13; Judtmann, 61–62.
9. Sophie von Planker-Klaps, in Neues Wiener Journal, January 27, 1929.
10. Judtmann, 91–93; Hamann, Der Weg nach Mayerling, 115.
11. Krauss on Bratfisch, report of February 2, 1889, in Loehr, 104–5.
12. Antonia Konhäuser statement, in Friedrich, Das Kriminfall Mayerling, 262.
13. Barta, 72; Franzel, 81; Haslinger and Trumler, 124; Judtmann, 115, 119–20; Grant, 255–56.
14. Friedrich, Der Kriminalfall Mayerling, 209.
15. Barta, 72; Franzel, 81; Haslinger and Trumler, 124; Judtmann, 115, 119–20.
16. Krauss report of February 2, 1889, in Loehr, 106.
17. Judtmann, 119–24, 140–41; Barta, 72; Friedrich, Der Kriminalfall Mayerling, 193.
18. In addition to Rudolf and Mary, twenty-five people were at the Mayerling estate on the nights of January 29–30, 1889: Thomas Albrecht, police sentry assigned to Mayerling; Baumgartner, staff; Josef Bratfisch; Hornsteiner, huntsman; Count Hoyos; Jakob Zak, kamerdiener to Hoyos; F. Kathe, cook; August Kianek, personal huntsman to Hoyos; Kubitschka, forester; Karl Laferl, servant; Laurenz Lebert, police official from Baden; Count Reinhard von Leiningen-Westerburg and his wife, Anna; Mauritz Loffler, huntsman; Johann Loschek, Saaltürhüter (hall porter) and occasional valet; Karl Ratschek, huntsman; Julius Schuldes, telegraph operator; Sedlak, orderly; F. Strubreiter, lodge caretaker; N. Strubreiter, lodge maid; Leonard Weckerle, gardener; Joseph Wedl, police post commander assigned to Mayerling; Franz Wodicka, kammerbüchsenspanner (gun loader); Friedrich Wolfe, carpenter; and Alois Zwerger, Schlosswarter (schloss warden). Friedrich, Der Kriminalfall Mayerling, 195.
19. Ibid., 104–5.
20. Der Vetsera Denkschrift, 65–66, in Markus and Unterreiner, 256.
21. Larisch, My Past, 318.
22. Ibid., 320; Der Vetsera Denkschrift, 66, in Markus and Unterreiner, 256; Der Polizeibericht, 75.
23. Der Vetsera Denkschrift, 67, in Markus and Unterreiner, 256.
24. Larisch, My Past, 319–21.
25. Der Vetsera Denkschrift, 69–70, in Markus and Unterreiner, 70.
26. Der Polizeibericht, 8.
27. Larisch, My Past, 324–26.
28. Ibid., 322–23.
29. Ibid., 324–26.
30. Der Polizeibericht, 13–14.
31. Ibid., 7.
32. Ibid., 15.
33. Ibid., 23.
34. Hoyos Memorandum, HHS, Box 21; also in Mitis, 274–75.
35. Corti, Empress Elisabeth, 391.
36. Rudolf Püchel, in Reichspost, January 31, 1926.
37. Hoyos Memorandum, HHS, Box 21; also in Mitis, 275.
38. Lónyay, 165.
39. Rudolf Püchel, in Reichspost, January 31, 1926.
40. Marek, 275; Salvendy, 146.
41. Stephanie, 244.
42. Der Vetsera Denkschrift, 75–76, in Markus and Unterreiner, 259; Der Polizeibericht, 14–16.
43. Der Polizeibericht, 18.
44. Der Vetsera Denkschrift, 77–79, in Markus and Unterreiner, 259–60.
45. Der Polizeibericht, 19.
46. Ibid.
47. Loschek, in Neues Wiener Tagblatt, April 24, 1932.
48. Mauritz Löffler, statement of 1943, cited in Friedrich, Der Kriminalfall Mayerling, 253–54.
49. Hoyos Memorandum, HHS, Box 21; also in Mitis, 275–77; Loehr, 13.
50. Bibl, 67–69.
51. Loschek, in Neues Wiener Tagblatt, April 24, 1932.
52. Antonia Konhäuser statement, in Friedrich, Das Kriminfall Mayerling, 263; Baltazzi-Scharschmid and Swistun, 222.
CHAPTER 9
1. Loschek, in Neues Wiener Tagblatt, April 24, 1932; Hoyos Memorandum, HHS, Box 21; also in Mitis, 277.
2. Loschek, in Neues Wiener Tagblatt, April 24, 1932.
3. Listowel, 225.
4. Mitis, 283; Judtmann, 127; Hoyos Addendum, HHS, Box 21; also in Mitis, 284; Listowel, 238–39.
5. Loschek, in Neues Wiener Tagblatt, April 24, 1932; Hoyos Memorandum, HHS, Box 21; also in Mitis, 277.
6. Loschek, in Neues Wiener Tagblatt, April 24, 1932.
7. Hoyos Memorandum, HHS, Box 21; also in Mitis, 277.
8. Hoyos, letter of March 1889 to his brother Ladislaus, Count Hoyos, Austrian ambassador in Paris, per Count Alexander Hübner, diary entry of March 10, 1889, quoted in Judtmann, 125.
9. Hoyos Memorandum, HHS, Box 21; also in Mitis, 277–78.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid.
14. Loschek, in Neues Wiener Tagblatt, April 24, 1932; Slatin, Abschrift; Heinrich Slatin in Neues Wiener Tagblatt, August 23, 1931; Hoyos Memorandum, HHS, Box 21; also in Mitis, 278; Hoyos Addendum, HHS, Box 21; also in Mitis, 284; Count Corti, manuscript copy of Marie Valerie’s diary entry of January 30, 1889, per Ida von Ferenczy, quoted in Judtmann, 144; Corti, Empress Elisabeth, 391; Countess Zoë Wassilko-Serecki, Protocol of September 5, 1955, quoted in Judtmann, 342, 344; Bibl, 109; Lónyay, 185.
15. Loschek, in Neues Wiener Tagblatt, April 24, 1932.
16. Hoyos Memorandum, HHS, Box 21; also in Mitis, 278.
17. Hoyos, letter of March 1889 to his brother Ladislaus, Count Hoyos, Austrian ambassador in Paris, per Count Alexander Hübner, diary entry of March 10, 1889, quoted in Judtmann, 126.