The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-03-26
Il STORY OF TAayPIRE.
TRANSMISSION ENTRAORDINARY-AF FRAG
MENT FROM PQLIGE ARCHIVES.

In the year 1867, apartments en- trAtsiome
were taken in the house No. $40 Rue St.
Honore, Paris, by couple, who had Aus
trian passports, and who gave their names
as Jean Kinsfov and wife. Kislov pre-
tended to be a musician, in part teacher
and part amateur composer. He was a
person very well informed, naughty and
ariStocratic in manners, and striking in ap-
pcarance. He had spectral face, set in
a f. anne of thick black hair and cut by a
long plustache which hing down to his
breast. His eyes, intensely black, thiil-
lingly brilliant, flashed as if they belonged
anywhere rather than to his ghastly white
face, entirely impobile, the pallor of which
was heightened by bright caYInine lips.
He was emacated to a singular degree, but
there was nothing of the ianCuor and dull
ness of disease about him on the contrary,
fire and intensity which gave a sort of
passion to all that he said and did. He
dressed entirely in black, with sumptu-
BUSINESS of tone that was itself impressive.
Nine. kislov was a less distinguished
person, being a very fair and forid blonde,
with white eyebrows and pinkish stripe
above them. She was plump, and the way
in which the rose bloom was laid on her
glistening white skin gave her something
of the appearance of a wax doll.
When Kisloy had been living in the Rue
St. Honore about four months. several cir
cumstances combined TO bring him under
the surveillance of the police. Riding in a
cab one day in the Boulevard Montruartre,
he was set upon by a workman, who as
saulted him with knife and would have
killed him but for the prompt inteiposition
of a sergeant de vile. The man was ar
rested, but Kinslov rersistently refused to
appear against him, and the workman
whose name was Jasz, Bohemian or
Hungarian-was finally discharged. He
would say no more than that he knew Kis-
low, and that he was a monster The sin
cular refusal of Kislov to testify against
an assassin directed the attention of the
authorities to the man and provoked in
qury iEto his antecedents. Two things
were found out immediately--tha his
name was not Kislov, and that he bought
arsenic in considerable quantities at some
pharmacies near where he lived. a little
further inquiry, however, seemed to set the
police curiosity at rest concerning kislov
The Austrian embassy, which oised Kislov's S
passport, assured the authorities that they
knew him perfectly well, and we're satisfied
with the reasons he gave for living incog-
nito. He was a Hungarian nobleman of
high rank and great estate, which he had
left to come to Paris, under an assumed
name, because the ignorant and brutal
peasantry 10y whom he was surrounded had
got firm belief in their stupid heads that
he was a vampire, who lived by sucking
blood, etc. This would explain the at
tempt on his life made by Jasz, who was
probably an emigrant from his neighbor-
hood. AS for the arsenic, Nine. Kislov
was Syrian, who had the reputation of
being an arsenic-eater. Kislov's music
teaching was merely an amiable eccentri-
city of his, since ne was very rich, and a
the tone-art.
An agent of the police de surete, however,
not satisfied with what was reported con-
cerning Kislov, determined to make pri-
vate inquiry of his own. This agent, Syl-
vain, man of great astuteness, and much
trusted by the authorities, hunted Up Jssz.
and ascertained from him that the suspic-
ions of vampirism which lay against Kislov
had originated in circumstances intimately
connected with his reputed music mania,