The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1875-10-21
4 GREAr SCANDAL IN SPAIN
The Young King said TO have Killed n Man,
and Gnm.ed the AeenssinnIInn of OLhern.


The following pleasant Spanish story is
moving the round Of some of our contempora-
RIGS IN the shape Of Madid correspondence,
though the origin Of tho report Is said to he
traccabo to the office Of a Spanish paper In this
city;
Revolution is again imminent In Spain. Tho
usual prcc rfors ~ n storm Tel Intestine hand
bills address ed 80 the army and to tine peOule)
have already made their apue rance on the
streets and are slylv passed from land to han
under the very noses Of the police. and In suife
of all their efforts To suppress them. he spirit
Of revolution is just now doubly fomented by q
mysterious and foul tragedy, all knowledge OF
which the authorities are vanly endeavorinG TO
cover up. Several persons have already been
arrested and hurried OF into dungeons, nobody
knows where, simply for having been heard
speaking OF the subject on The streets or In the
CATS. The newspapers have been threatened.
and not one of them dares lisp syllable on the
breath, with closed doors. In fact, the whole
story has been printed on small slips of paper
and secretly circulated.
The facts appear to be az follows: The King
and the Duke Of Sexto have been corruptng he
daughter and the wife OF an officer In the army,
whose home is second or third door from MIR.
Cushings. lie was in the North fighting, but
hearing OF the Kings frequent visits at his house
home late at night. found the King and The Duke
OF Sexto III the house shot at the King, nut
missed him. and was himself snot dead by the
Duke OF Scxto. who was behind him. The strt ct
police heard the pistol shots, and came running
To the rescue, but were sent about their bust
who carried 1t nobody knows where, snd Is now
receiving. II IA said, 500 month. The maid
servant, who was an eye witness Of the murder,
disappeared the next dav-some say was assas-
minated. But she had had time to tell her lover.
Mhen he found she was disposed of he hid him
self for some davs. nut vcnturing out at last,
found dead in the street-stabbed-one morn
ing.
The Judge before whom the case OF the FIRST
murder should have come being man OF more
tnan usual nrmness OF character. and having
knowledge of the facts. was determined that
should
natterinR omcial positions were offered MN II
ne would ueslst ron nj puIpoSe, Wn, ono ne
the papers announced that he had committed
suicide. The other papers do not dare even 10
mention his death, or to make any comments.
And the courts have taken no notice of the
whole business, though the story IL already re-
peated from Lisbon to Barcelona. The mother
and daughter have been privately hurried on TO
Ddyonne.
printed and circulated ON the streets:
En- ia doctrina Christena
Dice e. qunto, no matar;
Pero Ia Rcnte AlfonsinA,
iiene I'm sex,o que ssesina.
which rendered literally Is:
In the Chrlstian doctrine
nut the Alfonsist gentry,
For lear OF not SHINING,
Have sixth Do thou assasslnate.
As the Catholics have omitted the inconye-
nicnt second commandment, the sixth has be-
come ther hfth. The pun on the Duque dc
SextO's name Is very telling. as the last la may
sassinHtcs."
] cannot vouch for the truthfuness OF all the
details of this horrible story. but there seems
10 be no doubt that the officer came home at
night and found Alfonso and the Duque de
Sexto IN the company Of his wife and daughter ;
that he was shot by one OF them, and bis body
disposed of secretly; that the maid servant aud
her lover have suddenly disappeared that the
wife and daughter have been secretly conveyed
TO Bayonne that the Judge died 10y violence ;
that thcre has been no judicial Investigation {;
that there Is intense feeling IN the community (;
that the papers have been profoundly silent /;
that several persons have been imprisoned for
talking Of the subject that Canovas del Castil-
10, the Prime Minister, has resigned; and that a
a liberal direction IN the hope Of warding OF a
revolution.
The young King appears to be going the way
OF bis mother. As Is customary In spain, those
who surround tue sovereign try to govern Tim
10y his passions. So. IL Is said. Amadeo was
ruined ana the peace OF his family deSroyed.
They sow the wind and reap the whrlwind. The
corruption IN high places aud In low IS appal-
ing. From the crown of the head 10 the sole Of
the foot there Is no sOundness IN them.
None OF the English, French. or German pa
pers make any allusion to this scandal. A cir
constance which makes the story still more
doubtful, is that the young King had ample
means for sending the Colonel TO Cuba OF some
other distant station, whence he would have
been unable to return so unexpectedly.
The Duke OF Sexto, Marquis OF Alcanices, who
Il said TO have been the assassin OF the Colonel,
is man about nifty and the husband Of the
widow OF the Duke de Morny.