The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-08-20
LOVE TO THE RESCUE.
The Desperate Deed of a Young
Russian Nobleman.
He Joined the NihilIsts aud Wrecked
Train to Save His Sweetheart From
Living Death-Fate of
the Lovers.

The official inquiry into the cause OF
the accident on the Transcaspian rail-
road has developed another of those
terribly tragic romances with which
the archives of Nihilism abound and of
which no country outside of Russia at
the present day could furnish such an
awful example. The meager details
at first obtainable announced that a
passenger train while 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 consummate their purpose
namely, to effect the rescue of sew
eral prisoners who Were on their way
10 the Siberian mines-the desperate
band founG the surviving passengers.
among whom were a number of Rus
sian police, more than match for
them. After desperate struggle, in
which several of the NihilistS were
killed and most of their companions
wounded, the attacking party was
overcome and the survivors found
themselves, rather unexpectedly, in
the same position as those they had
sought to rescue. From subsequent
discoveries it appears that the Mill
lists were in this case merely tools in
working out of domestic drama re-
vealing exceptional turpitude on the
part of some of the participants.
Some twelve months ago the eldest
son of one of the most aristocratic
families in the south of Russia became
'enamored of an exceedingly pretty
Young girl, the daughter of an Odessa
,drosky driver. For some time his
family. who were bitterly opposed to
the affair, used the most strenuous
efforts to bring about rupture be-
tween the young couple, but without
avail. As is usual in such cases the
opposition only served the purpose of
tanning the fame 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
some of their connections. determined |
on using the last and only resource at |
their command to prevent the fatal |
folly they We're momentarily expect
ing the young man to commit by |
the daughter OF the drosky |
driver BY some meas they dis
that the girls father was con-
nected with the Nihilist party, and |
it is asserted that the girl |
was positively innocent of even the
knowledge that her father was COM
promised by any such connection.
proofs Were found Or invented (the
Latter, it is 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 fiancee the young
nobleman set about to procure her
release. Ii is alleged that he even
went so far as TO seek an in
terview, with the Gar for the sake of
his assistance on behalf of
he lovely young girl who had been
consigned TO SO horrible a fate. rs
usual, promises We're made to placate
him and give the officials time TO carry |
)ut the sentence which had been |
passed upon her by the secret tribunal
and which there was no intention on |
he part of the Car or any one else to
liter. Rendered desperate by the de- :
ay and knowing to what horrible in
lignities young and pretty women are /
'ften subjected by the brutal myrmi- ,
Ions of the law TO whose tender mer-
les their destiny is intrusted, the
'oung nobleman determined upon a
desperate course. Nor was he lacking
n discretion in the methods he adopt
ID, as may be judged from the fact I
hat until after the affair in the tun- ,
lei the police had not, the slightest
dea of his detection. 8
lie appealed to the Nihihsts. of whom /,
Re had hitherto been pronounced
nemy, for assistance. promising them
ny thing they might ask that he could 9
o for them if they would assist him +
rescuing his inamorata. The reyo- :