Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-11
A FORSAKEA BRIDE,
The Beautiful Victim Of a
Gambling Husband Suicides
at Monte Carlo
AFTER BEING ABANDONED.
Tie Noble Count, Her Husband
Throws Himself Under a Train
TO ESCAPE FROM HIS DISGRACE,
Leaving a Request That a Charitable
Silence Be Preserved.
AFTER BEING ABANDONED.
TO ESCAPE FROM HIS DISGRACE,
Leaving a Request That a Charitable
e.. Silence Be Preserved.
FASTENING EVENTS OF THE TRAGEDY
rBr pUNLAP's CABLE CoNPANr.I

Young and Deautl 1uI Russian vile, WHO was
as good as she was beautiful, by name
Nadieska Charikoff. The Charikoffs are an
ancient and noble family, whose estates lie
not far from st. Petersburg, but the pro-
duct;veness of which mas not been increased
bv the freeing of the serfs and the recent
failure OF the grain harvests. In fact, Count
Ivan mas lately been hard pressed to raise
sufficient funds to defray the expenses Of his
usual winter visit to the Riviera; Tor Ivan,
like many Russians, was an lnyeterate
gambler, and found the amiability of the
administration at Monte Carlo in abolishing
the usual limit at trente-et-guarante very
much to his liking.
But play was not his only amusement.
On his way to and from St Petersburg he
had frequently made detours that enabled
him to visit Bucharest, the gay capital OF
Roumania, where he found in the late
spring, all the rigors of a Russian winter,
and quite much gambling as be had left
beind him on the Mediterranean; not, how
ever, in public gaming houses, but in the
salons of the creme de la creme OF the Rou-
manian aristocracy.
The Beautiful Nadjeska Welded.
1t was not long before he discovered that
bucharest contained an additional attrac-
tioa in the person of Nadjeska Pitolf. the
youngest daughter of large landed pro-
prize tor whose beauty and many accomplish
ments had already brought all the eligible
youth of Roumania 10 her feet, but she was
still heart whole when the handsome Rus
sian appeared Oh the scene.
In an evil hour she allowed herself to fall
i : IL i -
was no many days before, to a formal de-
nand Tor her hand, she surrendered at dis
cretion. The marriage occurred about the
middle of November, just as Bucharest was
6onning its winter mantle of ermine, and
the wedding festivities were celebrated TO
the music OF sleigh bells, as we'll as of Ca
th edral chimes.
!IYhat more natural, therefore, than that
the bride, vino had never left home at this
SEASON should visit region of almost per-
peSual sunshine and enjoy the sight of roses
Incoming aud lemons and oranges ripening
it the open air in December?
Fastening Toward the Tragedy.
FIt is true that the exceptional cold of the
past month was a keen disappointment to
Nadieska, but the fast Fastening event of the
tragedy soon drove all other thoughts from
her mind. 1t was not to be expected that
Count Ivan intended to eschew play, eyer
during his honeymoon, and the event proved
that he could not as benedict resist the
temptations OF the Casino any more success
fully than he had done as a bachelor.
The Countess was aware that her husband
was fond of play as she had seen HIM gam
bling at bucharest, but she WAS not pre-
pared for the entire command over his whole
being that fatal passion had secured, in COM
parson with which her own charms OF mind
anu Verson as counter-attractlons were as
uothi2g.
The dcnouement that mig ht have been
predicted IN such state of affairs was not
long in coming. Before a fortnight had
elapsed Nadjeska realized that she had been
virtually abandoned. Between noon and
the time the tables closed, at midnight, she
only saw her husband at the dinner hour,
ard even then she was not sure of his COM
pany, as he was frequently too much abb
Eorbed IN the game to remember that he was
hungry.
The Brides Unhappy Lot
They had taken rooms at the luxurious
Hotel de Paris, adjoining the Casino, so
that the Count might be promptly on hand
when the doors opened aud play began The
hotel is resorted 10 by many of the wealthy
but otherwise least reputable, of those who
make Monte Carlo their wi ter home To
these idle gentry the sight of d lovely bride
Systematically neglected by her husband
was cheering and exhiliarating spectacle,
and the entire colony of ne'er-do-wells were
at once keenly on the scent.
And now came the hour of Nadieska's
trial Carefully reared in a virtuous home,
and uGsEilied in the wiles of fashionable
coQdetrv, she firmly repelled all the ill-con-
diJioned crowd, but was unable to conceal
the grief that the Counts conduct caused
her. Prominent among those who thus
pestered her was Prince Altobreicia, an
Italian. He was far richer and handscmer
than any OF his rivals.
Knocking His Insulter Down.
His method of procedure was q novel
one. Dicovering that Count Ivan was losing
heavily, he sought an interview with him,
and cuCllv informing him that he (the
CounD seemed to care more for money than
for his bride, proposed that she should be
transferred to the Italian for the payment of
200, ,UUG francs (S4G,G00) in French gold.
IHe CoUu. was not as tail as the Prince, but
Indignation at the auGacity of the proposal
ncr7ed ms arIa- and nc promptly knocked
has rival down il the secluded corner of the
Casino gardens, where the interview took
place.
But this spasm OF right feeling and action
was not TO save the Count He kept on
plungiEg and losing until ruin stared him
Ia the face. 1t was for this that the wiIy
Italian had waited. He again threw himself
in the way of the infatuated Russian. who
finally numbied himself SO far as to ask for
the 200, coo francs as loan. Nothing was
BaId 10 the Countess.
Prince Altobrecia, feeling certain that he
had gained Nadjeska, FASTENED to seek an
interview with her, and proposed an elope-
ment, proposal that, it is needless to say,
was Indignantly rejected.
Husband AND Wife End Tbeir Iives
Meanwhile Count Ivan was engaged in
rapidly losing his windfall, and the second
day found him nearly reduced to beggary.
He had enough money TO pay his own ex-
pecSeS northward, and unable TO face the
situation ne had created, he took the first
train Tor Vienna and st. Petersburg. 1t was
on New Years Eve that the Countess dis
covered that she had been abandoned.
80 far as ready money was concerned, she
was almost penniless, but she might have
raised considerable sum bv selling her
Jewels. This she disliked to do, as she still
noHed that her husband would after short
absence, return. 1t was Tuesday last when
having finally given up all hone and too
proud to call OH her friends athome for
help, she closed her unhappy career by tax
ing poison.
Hardly was her body cold when the pro-
rrietor OF the hotel received a dispatch from
St. Petersburg stating that Count Ivan had
been run over by a railroad train, and that
on his pockets being searched a note was
found giving his name and stating that he