The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-11-23
a HORRIBLE MURDER.
Two Treasure-BeareYs Slain On
a Austrian Train.
ANOTHER STORY INTERVIEWED.


vrEHSA, Nov. 22-tSpecial. IA myster-
ious murder Of two bank messengers while
In = first-ciass coach on : Vienna mail
train. Is the absorbing topic Of converse
ton today. The victims upon this occa-
casion were two trusted employees OF .
Warsaw bank. and they had been dis
patched with 5000 rubles about $33 600.
on special and secret errand to . distant
city.
The reason for this errand with ouch .
sum Of money is most romantic. Some
months ago . sensation was caused in
local society by the imprisonment OF .
Weii-known young man whose parents
we're semi-noble. and through whose veins
there pulsed patrician blood that emanated
from king and came to him only slightly
diluted.
One night from the window Of the house
OF prominent financier on fashionable
street were heard loud calls for the police,
and when the latter reached the house
they found the owner holding : Young
man whom he said he had caught in .
room. which was his wife's boudoir, with 3
diamond bracelet in his possesslon and
other jewelry on the table ready to be car
ried away. The young man was hurried
OH to the police station, where he gave the
wrong name. under which he Was tried
without making any defense, convicted
and sentenced, and transported to the
most dreaded prison in the kingdom.
Then rumors began to circulate that the
real name of the young man was . dupli-
cate Of that of one OF the highest officials
in the emperor's household.
Finally il was declared that the wife of
the fnancier had gone to the emperor and
appealed for the release Of the young
man, confessing that he was
her lover, and ON the night
he was arrested he was
in her boudoir at her invitations. When
her husband was heard entering her
house, he had gone into an adjoining room.
where the young man had hastily opened .
bureau drawer. and taking out her jewelrv,
had awaited the coming OF her husband to
catch him with it in his possession. 30 that
he might be thought q common house
breaker and she might be shislded.
When the emperor heard this tale be ct
once gave orders for the young mans re-
lease. The money which the messengers
were carrying was partly for the purpose
OF paying the husband, who, in such in
stances, is entitled under the laws to in
demnity. and partly to pacify the obiiga-
tons incurred by the young man
to prison authorities for Injuries, both
claims amounting to about $1,000 rubies.
The father Of the young man is director in
the bank from which the money was
taken. and it was he who sent it
The bodies of the messengers were found
beside the track, cut gashed and mutilatsd.
They had been stabbed to death.
Details received regarding the railway
murder at Kutno show that when the
train left L0rnics station all the passengers
save the murderers and their victims had
quilted the compartment The murdsrers
threw quantity Of insect powder into the
eyes Of their victims and dispatched one
with knife and the other with bludgeon.
The bodies were thrown out Of the car
riage, and the murderers sprang or the
train ~ il WAS slowing up.