Kimball enterprise. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1883, 1883-07-20
A POLES SURE VENGEANCE,

| "A POLE'S SUEtE VENGEANCE.
| Alexander Semiloffs Dying Comics
sion of an Oath and it's Relens-
less Fuiii,ment--The Story Con.
tirmcd py the Skeleton OF One ofthe
Victims.
l Reeds Station, Pa, Special to the Phil
I adelphia Times.
I Alexander Semiloff, Pole, aged about
J thirty five years, died yesterday at
! Reeds Station. He had only been here
q short time, and was regarded by the
| countrymen with considerableaw He
came of a noble family, and was an able
| inguist, speaking husntiy, the English,
| French, Russian and Polish languages,
and was highly educated man. He
was very reticent, rarely speaking to
any nerson, and always
Wore a downcasa look, as
II haunted by some terrible secret. On
| Tuesday he was taken ill. A priest and
| physician were summoned. On being
told that he could not live until morning
he said he desired 10, free his mind bv
making confession. Two other gentle
men came in atterwasa, and in the pres
ence of the four he told the following
story: ''ln 1858 lived with my father
| in the Polish town OF Ii,otner, on the
| Russian frontier. / was then oniv a
! child My mother had died some three
years before. We lived in the town
I quietly until the fall of the year, when
my fathers sister, a say handsome young
| woman whose husband vas serving in
| the Russian army in ,Narkestan, ca,t.e 10
| The place to live. by some means she
| hAr ay,1.. ,,y,Il Il,,l, ,,,+
| RomanoH, son of the prefect OF the VIII
lage and captain OF Cossack regiment.
AT last he betrayed her and induced her
10 lily from her husband. In a short
time she ended hsr wretched career in
Baden Baden, IN one OF the worst resorts.
As soon as my father heard of her
betrayal he took me upon his knee and
made me swear 60 avenge the wrong bY
killing off the aecursed family. Soon az
ter the project was found lying dead by
the roadside. Ny father had killed HIM
and left bis pistol lying by his side, SO
as to give the IDEA of a suicide, and it
was generally thought thai the prefect
had destroyed himself. Soon my father
placed me in an academy at Warsaw,
and joining the Russian army in the
Crimea followed out his plan of revenge.
The betfayer and his brother were Of
| ticers in the army, and were by some
chance assigned to The regiment in which
| my ather served One night they We're
found dead in their tents, a knife sill
| sticking IN the heart of each. Fearing
| detection, for it was father who had
committed the deed, he deserted the
army, and for ten years | saw nothing
| OF HIM. Occasionally he wrote me from
various points, all his letters breathing
the same spirit of vengeance. One nigh
a a tof
and requested me to follow him. Next
| morning we left for Italy. and in short
time arrived at Milan. From there we
went to Florence, where my father said
our work of vengeance was TO be done.
| A brother of Romanoff, the prefect, was
| an attache of the Russian legation the
court of Victor Emanuel, and we deter
mined to slay him.
"For days we followed him, but could
never find chance to safely accomplish
our purpose. One night we saw hin,
walking on the river bank, accompanied
by another gentleman, and determined
to kill him that night. Trusting to the
color of our masks, my father sprang at
and, throwing him, held him while
sprang upon Romanof and stabbed him
to the heart twice. Hiding his compan-
ion we then threw the dead body into
the Arno with the knife still sticking in
it. We left his friend lying there help
less and returned to the city. Next
morning my father was arrested while
sitting III church on charge of murder.
Hearing Of it, / escaped to the noun
tains. My fathers disguise had not been
perfect, and Romanofi's S companion gave
such description of HIM that he was
identified. Shortly after he vas tried,
convicted and hanged.
| joined a brigade of biiaands under
the command Of Spizzia. who was re-
Gently captured in New Orleans, and for
sometime a wild life satisfied me. Soon
| returned to Poland and found that the
Romanoff had been scattered. A num-
Der bad been exiled to Siberia for trea-
son. while three had gone to America.
II Immediately determined to follow
them. and after searching from 1875 to
1851 found them at this place, but be-
fore my vengeance could overtake them
two Of the three had died from disease,
| and but one, Albert Loboski, was left.
| then secured work there and plotted
his destruction. One night he disap-
peared. Nothing was thought it, as
mysterious disappearances were COM
mon among our class. killed him, and
would have gone back to Russia to finish
my work had it not heen for this sick
ness"
The listeners were appalled, by this
story. The man then proceeded to tell
| in a husky voice the place where he
buried the man. and, after receiving the
sacrament from the priest, expired, thus
escaping the power of the law. This
morning a party proceeded to the spot
| indicated and exhumed the skeleton,
with large, rusty dirk knife protrudinp
from him. There wss then no doubt SIS
on the body of Loboski shortly.