The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-10-29
THE MuscovlTE BUTCHER.

rhe Gar of All the Russias Stains HIS Hands
With the Blood of a Subject, Sabering M.
DeReutern, One of the Court Chamber
Iains, During Fit of Ungovernable Pas
sion,
LONDON, Oct. notwithstanding
the official denials of the Russian en-
oassies at Berlin, Vienna and here in
London, denials which were only to be
expected when derived from such sources,
the statement that the Gar killed one of
his chamberlains, NJ. de Reutern, either
with q sabre or 4 pistol, at the palace of
Gatchina, is corroborated by advices re-
ceived from St. Petersburg. The impress
sion among those who had opportunity
of becoming personally acquainted with
the present autocrat of Russia is that
the tragic occu rrence IS due rather to the
angovernable temper and almost insane
dts of passion for which he is notorious
y subject than to any mere fear of per-
sonal attack. This impression is further
strengthened by the following facts,
which, perhaps, are not generally
known in the United States: Some
time after the termination of the
Franco German war the Grand
and who is we'll known in New York,
contracted a secret marriage with Mile.
DeReutern, niece of Baron DeReutern,
who at that time was the minister of
finance. When the matter became known
the Grand Duke withdrew with his young
wife to Nice and other seaside resorts on
the French and Mediterranean coasts.
Not only the Gear, but especially the
present Emperor, was furious with the
grand duke, and Alexander H., in his
double capacity of supreme head of the
orthodox Greek church and autocrat of
all the Russlas, decreed the secret mar
riaga 10 be null and void. Alexis, how
ever, took no notice of these measures
but continued to reside with Baron De
Reutern's niece, who bore him three
lovely children. At length the grand
duke's attachment for the poor girl
appeared to grow colder and
he commenced to neglect her. It was
during one of his frequent absences that
Count Peter Schonvaloff, who for several
years held the post of chief of the police
of the empire, visited the young mother
and had q prolonged interview with her
on behalf of the Russian family. What
passed between them is naturally only
known to the parties Immediately in-
terested, but the outcome was
that neither Mile. De Reutern nor
her children ever saw the 0ckIe
grand duke again. De Reutern, the gen.
tieman mentioned as having been killed,
was, ! am informed, the brother OF the
young lady, and received the more or
less honorary post of chamberlain for
his sisters compliance in obeying the
late Emperor'S behests. Since the ac-
cession to the throne of the present Car,
their uncle, the former Minister of FL
nance, has fallen in:O deep disgrace, owing
to the fact that his record as head OF the
National Treasury was not as unblem-
ished as might have been desired.
It is believed here that young De Reu-
tern was waiting to see the Car, and
that, in consequence of the heat of the
weather, he had unbuttoned his heavy
chamberlain's uniform. The monarch,
suddenly entering the room, seems to
have found him in this state, and, proba-
bly, thinking that the young man was pre-
Stunning on his quasi relationship to the
imperial family, censured him in the
bitter manner which is customary to
him. De Reutern. stung by the
imperial insults. most likely answered in
d disrespectful manner and thus provoked
one of those terrible fits of anger which
are so dreaded by all those who approach
the Gar.
This, may add, is the version which
has obtained most belief here, and Ger.
tainly 1t appears a more plausible one
than that which describes the gigantic
aud herculean Czar as a cowardly pol
troon.