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High mark in his career came in 1913 when in all seriousness he claimed the throne of Albania. Britain, Austria-Hungary and Italy later gave it to the ineffective German Prince Wilhelm of Wied. Then began the decline. In 1916 he was accused by British authorities of being a spy. He was handed over to Italy, arrested under the name of Carlo Lorioli, acquitted. A few years ago he gravitated to that rogues' rookery, the French Riviera, and had a modest success as an elderly gigolo. In 1930 the French police ordered him deported as an undesirable alien. The order was mysteriously countermanded. Then came the lean days. Still handsome, still holding his head high above his frayed collar, he drifted from rooming house to rooming house to meet finally with Senora Brau-Soler, comfortably married in Barcelona. She left her husband to go with Prince Edgar to Paris. He ran rapidly through her small fortune, until at last she was reduced to mixing unguents in a mouldy little room. Cause of the quarrel that led her to slit his throat was his attempt to beg enough money out of her to try one more fling at the Riviera. In his pocket was a letter to his son. He did not have the 1 franc 50 centimes to post it. The son, Rudolph de Bourbon, 35, an unemployed auto salesman, was discovered last week in Cleveland. "I don't know what my father was doing in Paris." said he. "I have not heard from him for years.'' Despite the story of Carlo Lorioli of Milan, there were many persons in Nice and Monte Carlo, not all of them gullible, who believe that "Prince Edgar" really was a Habsburg. They point to interesting facts. When he was in serious trouble —when he was arrested as a War spy and when he was about to be deported from France—mysterious influence was suddenly brought to bear to get him off. Within the past few years he pawned various bits of recognized Habsburg jewelry in Nice. Nobody ever came forward to say he stole them.