The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1889-07-04
LOVE TO THE REyGHE
The Desperate Deed OF Young
Russian Nobleman.4@,.~
Hc Joined the Nihilists and Wrecked a
Train to Save His Sweetheart From
Living Death-Fate OF
the Loycra.

The official inquiry into the cause OF
The accident on the Transcaspian rail-
road has developed another OF those
2 terribly tragic, romances with which
The archives OF Nihilism abound and OF
which no country outside of Russia at
the present day could furnish suchy an
awful example. The meager details
at first obtainable announced that
passenger train-wbile passing through
one OF the tunnels on this line was
wrecked and that fifty lives had been
sacrificed by the inhuman outrage
The attacking party. who were Mill
lists, numbered only seventeen, and
although they made the most desperate
attempt to eonsummate their purpose
namely, to effect the rescue OF sew
cral prisoners who were on their way
To the Siberian nines-the desperate
band found the surviving passengers,
among whom were a number of Rus
.-=-sian. paliee, mers.z=than~;s-y aateh-fen=
After a desperate struggle, in
which several OF the Nihilists were
killed andmost OF their companions
wounded, the attacking party was
overcome and the survivors found
= themselves, rather unexpectedly, in
n fe=ksitn4e pesitien hese@tth yyzzhaa
sought TO rescue. From subsequent
discoveries il appears that the Mill
lists were in this case merely tools in
working out OF domestic drama re-
vealing exceptional turpitade on the
part of some OF the participants.
Some twelve months ago the eldest
ron Of one of the most aristocratic
families in the south OF Russia became
enamored OF an exceedingly pretty
young girl,y the daughter OF an Odessa
drosky driver. For some time his
family, who were bitterly opposed to
tho affair, used the most strenuous
efforts to bring about a rupture be-
Tween the young couple, but without
-.nvail. AS is usual in such cases the
opposition only served the purpose of
tanning the flame and rendering the
young mans infatuation more intense.
Finally, it is claimed, the family, who
are exceptionally powerful on account
of the enormous wealth they possess
and high official positions held by
- somesof their connections, determined
on using the last and only resource at
their command to prevent the fatal
folly they were monentarily expect
ing the young man to commit by
marrying the daughter of the drosky
driver BY some means they dis
covered that the girls father was con-
neeted with the Nihilist party, and
although ills asserted that the girl
was positively innocent OF oven the
knowledge that her father was COM
promised by !. any such, connection,
proofs were found or invented (the
.a.-latter,- it lis supposedly by means Of
: which she was also incriminated and
her arrest was secured.
As soon as he discovered the villain
Gus plot which had been concocted to
rob him of his fancee the young
nobleman set about to procure her
release. 1t is alleged that .he even
went so far as to seek an in
terview with the Car for the sake OF
itnploring his assistance on behalf OF
the lovely young girl who had been.
consigned to so horrible fate. As
usual. promises were made to placate
him and give the officials time to carry
out the sentence which had been
passed upon her by the secret tribunal
and which there was no intention on
the part of the Gar or any one else to
alter. Rendered desperate by the de-
lay and knowing to what horrible in
dignities young and pretty women are
often subjected by the brutal myrmi-
dons OF the law to whose tender mer-
- eissss s#their-destiny intnusted. 1.-The.
Young nobleman determined upon a
desperate course. Nor was he lacking
in discretion in the methods he adopt
ed, as may be judged from the fact
that until after the affair in the tun-
mel the police had not the slightest
ideaof his detection.
lie appealed to the Nihilists,of whom
he had hitherto been pronounced
enemy, for assistance, promising them
my thing they might ask thath could
do for them If they would assist him
~ iCoSulIiS ulo ~ Ss'Ns
]utionists were not slow to appreciate
the advantage which such an Access
sion to their ranks would give them
and promised the young hoffman that
If heswould consent to become ini-
tiated into the brotherhood they would
adopt any desperate means that could
be proposed to accomplish his desires
lie replied that he was willing to sub
mit.to any conditions that they might
propose and forthwith became menu
Der OF the society.
Once in their hands the young man
found that he. like the other blind
tools of this dreadful Nemesis Of the
Russian Government. had to accept
= and obey orders which when once is
sued were as imperative as those OF
the Car. The young girl, OF whose
Whereabouts and fate the organization
was as we'll posted as we're the officers
VI the Government. still fingered, he
was informed. In thu Odessa prison,
On would shortly lplsyo via the Trans-
easY'aa railway Tor the siberian irpn.