Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-07-23
Story of Love and Crime

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81 BY !ns details CT tragedy 10 which over.
.geeniag ega.ice caused the dae:h CT
three persons AS Gtoino, U!aety m 90
distan, from Vienna. Lived Heo.eW nef-
ohent, Abraham Slovol9h, q lonely man,
arcid Ills riches, SD 8idow,r. Hs cnly
ccmpeuicn was HE niaoe, Pauioa. PeuiiDa
was considered a great catch by the yout d
Of sne Jewlsn f5a:erpity, so ehe would prob
ah!y naerit her ulole's rCubies besides haV-
ing baen left 81 hsiress by the dasth Of her
isthe.. She wac Il ia e!d obedie4t in ber
Cabi,s PauliDa, when she SttsiIed the age
of seven een, rea!z-d that 1t might be pos"
sible for he to oppose her uucle's demands.
Fifteen wears ago Abraham Stovoltff
found German bog starving 10 tho streets.
snd belg in wan. OF a serVauS took him TO
bis nouse Marx Stoin niZ was sn uDususl
iV brisht lad, aud s!tnough bard worked
mauaIed 10 secure lew books and to give
aimeelt something OF aa education. Soon
Abraham discovered that Marx had been
making himself more valuable. and be wss
not slow to svsi timaelf OF the fact. he
placed him in his counting honsa, end Marx
9. .eadily rose to be the head clerk OF tie es-
ra5lishment. Although young. Stornmliz
Ges long eeusible Of the cberm of hie em-
piof fef's fsir niece, but ts vas too loyGl to
deliberately plot TO entrep her shsc;ionR.
Tpis line OF reasoning, DO vmiUsntly sound,
did the youth credit, but he forgot that the
growing attractions of the maj3en
would strain the coed resolutions i'm
posed by 'hs Intercourse that living
in the same borss Involved. About
year sgo the old man Uncovered that
his bead clerk and bia Deioe were engaged,
and had been for u!onlhs The discovery
drove him to q fret ", and he forbade all
further intercourse. As deeper plot
against the young couple, DO ordered Marx
to procacd TO Vienna on collecting tour,
From this tip the youth never returned,
and he wes never seen alive there or else
where again. Abraham circulated the re.
port that his trusted mploye bad absconded
and the soaudll was generally believed.
NJ can hiie a eurp:ieiag change mad come
ovsr Paulins. Rosy cheeks end high epiIi's
left hsr. Indignantly spu'uing ths eocuas-
tiou against her lover, she maintained that
| he must hsve bsen murisred, and that no
| aiut o.. Gish2uor estaUheG 10 his name.
week ego, PauIins, having been steadily
pinipg, was missed iroun ner uucle's resi-
deuce. Ssagcb %. s nnde sitter several
hours and her lead body WAS found in hat
| ia f0rest ou her uccle's es.ste just out OF
the CT Y. The sirl's head was resting Oh the
Breast of the corpse Of the youpg mau, and
her arms were ent1ired about bis neck.
She had discovered the bods Of the niseing
Marx, who had been murdered in the woods
aid buried in the hut in s eballow grave.
The poor girl had made the terribly dlscov-
cry, and the shock killed her. Who was
the murderer? The police st once set to
work and few days ago unear;hed proofs
which laid the crime ct the door OF the re-
veugelul stovoloff, who was ct opce placed
under arrest No sooner were The facts
Known than the popuace, exasperated by
the cod-bcoded character OF the crime,
talked OF lsnching him. When the jsiior
carried breakfast to the wretched prisoner
he found Siovoof lying dead in the cell,
with two bullet wounds in his head