The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-12-21 00:00:00

A ROMANTIC CASE.

The TiMIA, also, in a leader, pays the following well.
deserved tribute to the memory ot Lady Beaconsfield :
Mr, Disraeli will command deep and general
gti,hy in the domestic affliction which has beta.
He hail lost the wife to whom he was
bound by mingled feelings of affection and gratitude,
and whose aid and companionship had been his con-
stant support through the arduous istrugglea of his
great career. The close of so intimate a relationship
at the moment when some of the gravest ysars of life
still await the survivor must always be sad; but it is the
It of humanity, and in ordinary cases would claim
Only the tribute of sincere and silent sympathy.
13ut something more seems due to the memory of a
mutual devotion which has not merely been the psi-
vete stay of a statesman's life, but in no slight mewiere
the ornament of his public character. The world has
well understood the mutual affection of Mr. Disraeli
and his wife, and has long honoured them both for it.
Genuine private virtues m public men are especially
prized in England ; andsa dome,tic life to which no
small part of our recent political history owes a power-
ful bias must not pass away without the tribute of
public regret Mr. Disraeli is acknowledged by all, whe-
ther they follow him or opener him, to have contrinuted
to the polipical life of the la 4 twenty five years some of
its most important influences. Trusted or suspected,
admired or feared, he has at least moulded a policy
and animated a party. That he has been able to do so
was in great degree due, as he has been forward to ad-
mit, to the generous affection of the wife who has now
been taken from him. When, at the close of his brief
Premiership, he obtained for her the dignity of • Peer-
age, he chose, in fact, a graceful way of proclaiming
his gratitude, and Englishmen honoured him for
the truth and manliness which prompted him to so
public an acknowledgment of his obligations.
Steady as the main course of the world's history may
be, it is remarkable to how large an extent the sere
erate incidents of which it in co- red depend on com-
parative accidents. Who wool,. Ave supposed, thirty-

At the Mansion Couse, in London, last Saturday,
Zacharia Basilius Zackaroff, a Greek, 22, deacribed
as a merchant, and who had :imminent the title
Prince Ba.silins Gortschakoff, was brought before the
Lord Mayor on a warrant, which charged him with
defrauding M. Manna Hiphestid. z, a Greek mer-
chant and Judge, of merchandise of the value of about
£l,OOO. The prisoner was also charged with being con-
cerned in stealing securities belonging to the prosecutor
worth between £O,OOO and £7.030. I fpon the prisoner,
when apprehended, Was fount a revolver of six dram-
here, each of which wor loaded with powder and ball.
He had also in his fromession 12 Turkish bonds for
£lOO each, nine for EA and three for i'lo each, with a
hag containing jewelery of great value. Tbli Was the
first arrest made under the Extradition Treaty just
concluded hawcen Belgium :ma England. The Belgian
Government had surrendered the prisoner to the police
to be dealt with by the Lord Mayor.
Mr. Wontner, solicitor for the prosecution, said that
the prosecutor, M. Hipheetidez, was a merchant at
Constantinople, and also occupied the position of a
Judge in Turkey. The father of the 'prisoner WAS a
notary of great respe -Lability. The prisoner himself
had the reputation of being very clever. He nag
master of seven or eight languages, and frr a few
years had acted as no interpref er in London. In June
last, being then at Coestantinnple, he told the prose cn-
t r, to v ler • 11 • va r sic I keown that. 1C Was al) aut. t‘i
droceed to Loud n, and would act as his agent there, if
he hsd no objection, for the sale of inerchrind,ze, and
would account to him for the proceeds from time to t'nel.
The prosecutor, having the grentest confirletyce in has,
assented to the suggestion. and the prisoner came to
London. He shortly afterwards called upon Mr.
Heinrich Bluhm, one of a firm of merchants in Marks
lane, and consulted him as to the sale of certain merchan
&rem. which he represented as belonging to himself, and
which he minutely describorl. It aferwarde transpired
that this was, in fact, the merchandise of M. Hip-
hestidez, his principal. The prisoner naked Mr. Bluhm
to make him &dean( es on it, and between the 28th of
June and the 21st of August Mr. Blubm advanced him
various some, amounting in all to A:806 old. The pros
sefutor had given the prisoner no authority whatever to
pledge any of his merchandise for money or any valuable
security. In September the prisoner retsina:4l to Con-
steadier:pie, are I the T rosecator asked to be furuiehedwith
an account of the sales he had made. That the prisoner
from cloy today promised t ado. but, instead of doingit, he
suddenly returned tor England, taking with him a large
aim of money and securities worth between £O,OOO
and £7,000 which he had stolen from the iron safe of
the prosecutor. Tao tuerchandise with which be had
intrusted the prisoner was worth about £l,OOO. The
piieoner had previously purchased the iron safe in
London for the prosecutor, and two keys of it were
given to him, as usual in such cases. One of the keys
he rent to the prosecutor with the safe, and kept the
other, by which he was afterwards enabled to open the
safe and abstract the money and valuable securities it
contained. For some time the prisoner left no trace
behind him, but be was at length ascertained to have
gone t s Smyrna, and while there to have tried to
induce an English lady to go out there to be manic,' to
him. She declined, but was afterwards married to him
in Paris, the prisoner a.ssuming the name and title of
Prince Bulling larrrtalakoff, and so passing himself
off so a Russian Prince. The lady and he afterwards
came to England, where they were married again, the
former marriage having only been contracted at one of
the Maurine in Paris, and a remarkable notification of
it appeared in some of the English newspapers. The
circumstance was brought to the knee/ledge of
M. Hipheetidez, who, suspecting that the self-
sty led Russian Prince was no other than the
prhiismonteor,bapiut
in t himself corint
on 1 tr nicat
authorize i o n
thewith r
e. ttohre..
City of London police. A warrant for the prisoner's
apprehension was grant* d by the Lord Mayor
on sworn information, and Was intrusted for execution
to Michael Haydon, &detective sergeant. The Trimmer,
meanwhile, thinking it unsafe to remain in England,
fled from the country, and was eventually traced to
Brussels, where he was at length arrested at one of the
first hotels. On being taken into custody, a revolver of
six chambers, each of which was loaded with pow-
der awl ball, sill ready for action at a moment's notice,
was found upon him, and his wife told the officer that
it wa am s fo:ate for him that be had brought plenty
of assistance, for otherwise he would have received
the contents of one of the barrels. A considerable
sum rif money and a large number of the missing
securities were found in the prisoner's possession by
Sergeant Royston, together with a quantity of very
valuable jewelry, which he had probably bought with
the money of which he had rubbed his employer. Of
course the LetMa} or would not have any jurisdic-
tion in the case of the robbery at Constantinople, but
the prisoner was to be prosecuted for unlawfully
i ledging the user chandise with which he had. been in-
tr rioted in good faith and for • speciel purpose. Mr.
Wontner applied for a remand, after calling the prose-
cutor as a witness, who gave some formal evidence.
Mr. Tindal Atkinson, who appeared as counsel for
the prisoner, asked that he might be admitted Cobalt in
the meantime.
The Lord Mayor, in the end, remanded the primmer
until Friday, and emphatically declined to admit
theint in
interval, o
or syms lion to him of any of the money found upon him.
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