Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 306, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1911 — Boy Is Saved By Emperor [ARTICLE]

Boy Is Saved By Emperor

Richard Wahrman Is Being Sought For In United States to Tell Hirfi Good News. Vienna.—Efforts are being made In the United States on behalf of the Austrian court to discover the whereabouts of Richard Wahrmann, son of a Hungarian deputy, who left for America about Bix weeks ago. The Emperor Francis Josejffi has consented to pay all the young man’s debts, and the court officials want to Inform him of the good news. * It Q Is so rare an occurrence for a Hapsburg to hand out money for a commoner, and so unusual fer Francis Joseph to bestir himself and his pursestrings in the cause of simple charity, some are thinking there must be some old love romance of other 13ays 'concealed ‘behind the Emperor’s act. But there is no ground for believing that this is the secret of young Wahrmann being freed from his liabilities. Maritz Wahrmann, the deputy, once ingratiated himself with the Emperor by some signal service, and this is &

return Francis Joseph is making him. Some years ago young Wahrmann© brother Arnst committed suicide when pressed by his creditors and the father was so distressed by the Tear that his remaining son might take his own life that friends appealed to the Emperor. Francis Joseph made it a condition that Richard Wahrmann shall never return to Europe.