Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-25
REMOVING A RIVAL.
Headless Body of a Young Russian
Found in q Bathroom, Where
HIS MURDERER HAD PLACED IT.
Terrible Fate of the Successful Lover Of q
Roumanian Belle.
KILLED BY A DISCARDED SUITOR
rBY pUNLAP's CABLE CoMPANY.l

fBr DUNLAP's CABLE CoMPANY.1
BUCHAREST, Jan. 24-The details Of the
terrible tragedy of the Hotel Carol at Con-
stanza (Kustepja): already wired from here.
have just been made public. Constanza is
fortified town on the Black Sea, that is con-
nected by rail with Tchernavoda on the
Danube. 1t cannot boast OF more than 5000
inhabitants, but is always being garrisoned
by one of Roumania's crack regiments, and
the large feet of merchantmen that are
usually in port tend to give it more life than
most Black Sea ports.
Not far from Constanza, in the direction
of Rassovie, lies an extensive sheep farm.
owned by Petroff Debreska, whose daughter,
Natalie, Is the belle of the country side for
miles around. Natalie, of course, as the
daughter of a wealthy herdsman, had a
little court of her own, but she cared not for
the rural swains that dogged her footsteps,
and turned with instructive longing toward
the military at Constanza.
Caught by an Orderly.
Nor were the latter slow in responding to
Mile. Natalie's urconcealed preference. She
had little difficulty in gathering a goodly
humber of officers at her rural festivities,
the latter being quite willing to exchange
the scant- comforts of Constanza hostelries
for the abounding plenty Of the Debreska
estate.
But Cupid's vagaries are not to be pre-
dicted on any considerations of ordinary
worldly wisdom, and it therefore happened
that instead of capturing the Colonel, or the
Major, or even a captain, Natalie fell in
love with an humble orderly, Holban by
name, youth of one-and-twenty. Whether
Holban returned Natalie's affection is not
stated, but he at least was not slow in COM
pretending the social advantages that the
gift of her heart and hand would confer
upon him. and calmly awaited the fathers
consent, while he stood ready to wreak ven-
geance upon all rivals.
Nor did ne have long to wait, for while
he was easily master OF the situation, so far
as the RoumaniaD youth were concerned, he
was not seemingly powerful enough to enter
the leld against new and powerful
aspirant who appeared upon the scene.
The Rival of HoIban.
Ivan Vledesco was the son of wealthy
st. Petersburg merchant, whose ventures in
wheat, barley, maize, wood eand cattle, the
produce of the Roumanian fields and forests,
rendered it necessary that some one should
represent him at Constanza. A local agent
had usually acted for him, but last autumn
he decided that his son, Ivan, who had just
lett the university, and whom he intended
for commercial career, should take the
position.
Stranded in this small seaport, Ivan, who
was Russian swell and already belonged
IN fvch o1r1h IN pota hu
naturaIl:- sought out the best of socia at
fractions the country afforded, and soon OBJ
tained an introduction to Natalie. The
latter was at first 10th to abandon her first
love, but the wiles of the city youth were
too fascinating for her long to Withstand,
and before the end of November Orderly
Holban had ceased to be the most favored
guest at NJ. Debreska'a hospitable villa.
Such was the situation when the owners of
Roumanian estates began to make their
usual extensive preparations for Christmas.
Holban was practically driven from the
field, but he had not forgotten the promises
of the heiress. and intended that she should
keep them. Young Vladesco had to all ap-
pearances superseded him, but there were
ways of removing even the most successful
rivals and at the same time enriching ones
self.
The Murder of Ivan.
Holban took Into his confidence brother
orderly named Pancesco, and it was not
many dav1before plot devilish in its in
genuity. was concocted and all the prepara-
tions made for its being success ulIy carried
out. violent snow-storm was raging at
Constanza on Christmas eve, as Ivan was
driving slowly back to the Hotel Carol, the
principal public house in the town, after an
evenings festivity at the Dobreskas.
The sleigh had not quite reached its
destination and was going around a turn of
the road, when the two orderlies, masked,
and with cleaning daggers, sprang pom the
unfortunate youth. A brief struggle and
all was over. The next day the sleigh was
found overturned, while the horse was stand
ing some distance away nearly frozen to
death. Nothing was heard of the missing
Russian until week ago, when one OF the
servants of the hotel went into an unused
bathroom in the basement and discovered
his headless body.
The police we're at once notified, and
gradually unraveled the story. The next
step was the arrest of Holban and Pancesco.
who, on being brought face to lace with the
evidences of their crime, confessed their
guilt. The two orderlies, who were the
servants of major lodging at the Carol, ad-
mitted that they had decapitated their
victim and buried the head In a neighboring