Well, there are some serious problems with Wolfe. First, he waited until 1942 to say anything, so many years after many involved people were arguing what had happened in the press. Then in his statement he claimed that he had told this same story "many times" to others, yet we couldn't find any record of someone repeating it. Third, he claimed that he was on his way to the lodge on the morning of January 30 to polish the floors IN ADVANCE of Rudolf's arrival, when in fact Rudolf had been there two days. He also claimed that he "heard the truth of what happened from others," suggesting he was relying on a fair bit of gossip. He said it was roughly two weeks after the deaths that he supposedly saw the bedroom. Now Court Commissioner Heinrich Slatin had done an inventory and assessment of the room on January 30 and 31, and he recorded no bloodstains splattered around the room, no bullet holes, no smashed furniture, etc. You could dismiss him as part of some conspiracy but just stop to think about how illogical Wolf's claim is: the court is desperate to cover up the truth of what happened, but they don't do anything to clean up evidence of violence in the room for two weeks, then ask Wolf -- certainly not a trusted courtier -- to come in and clean it all up. Do we really think the Imperial Court would have left the room in such a condition for two weeks if they were engaged in a conspiracy other than hiding that Rudolf had killed Mary? Or that they would let some provincial carpenter in to do the clean up? It makes no sense. Then, too, Wolf insists that Rudolf and Mary were killed at the same time, taken by surprise by assassins - so what of the suicide notes? What of the differences in their times of death? Unfortunately Mayerling is full of this sort of thing - it's going through the looking glass where many people claim things that just don't hold up!
