New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-12-17

hisn' receive both the credit and the reward
.o' the results achieved by the mission: and so
S'o''s was the crusade which they inaugurated
"eeiist the unfortunate Count that the Govern
nen' mad no alternative but to place him under
"i,es'. After OBTAINING him In prison for con-
ebarsade ain1e. he was sent prisoner
ma! seu with murder to ST. Louis, in Senegal.
~, me west Coast of Africa. where the court
is,' .iai took place. The only witnesses OF the
the we're natives. and of these part were FOR
a" ,i prosecution and part for the defence the
'iueHc" OF the latter being Of Infinitely
Iiole satisfactory character than that Of the
70 Teel; whose sentiments We're shown to be Que
" ieeihgs OF revenge for punishment inflicted
uPoh thefn by the Count for breach of discipline.
t me Dody OF Captain Quiquerez was disinterred
rom lts grave some 200 miles in the interior.
ana brought down to the coast. where the med-
cal experts were forced to admit that the bullet
wound In the skull might have been seif-inlicted.
Inc result of the trial that Count Segonsac
was acquitted and restored To his rank in the
army He feels, however. so bitterly the sus-
piclon that still prevails among certain people
with regard to his responsibility for the death
or captain Quiquerez that. notwithstanding that
he possesses rank. fortune and everything cal
cuiated to make life attractive. he has demanded
and obtained his transfer 10 a regiment stationed
IN the most dangerous portion of Tonquin. where
the French troops are in almost daily conflict
with the blaclS-flag pirates. and with a still
more cruel enemy, namely, the pestilential Gil
mate.
might cite many other instances Of the same
Kind. but there is which suggests Itself with
Monson case. There Is. or rather was, lew
years ago at Cairo an Italian-he called himself
Count. and held the honorary rank OF brigadier-
general In the Egyptian army-who was bur-
dened with n suspicion not unlike that which now
rests on Alfred Monson. Beginning his career
in the Austrian Army. he accompanied Emperor
Macmillan to Mexico and subsequently. finding
himself without resources, drifted TO Egypt
where he got an appointment as eauerry TO Khe-
dive Ismail. While in Egypt he made the ac-
quaintance OF an elderly Russian diplomat. the
Count b.. and of his wife, a considerably younger
woman, who was a Russian Princess c. by birth
1t was not long before the equerry became the
most trusted friend of the Russian couple. and he
wont to accompany the Count during MS
shooting expeditions in the daytime and to flirt
with the Countess during those poetic Egyptian
moonlight evenings. one afternoon the Russian
diplomat was brought home dead from gunshot
wound. According to the account Of the fatality
given by the equerry, who had been the dead
mans only cJmpani on, the accident was the result
CT the discharge of the Russians own gun NO one
was more effusive than he in his protestations Cf
grief. A few months la.er however the widow W
no place in the world which is so redolent with
scandal and malevolent gossip as caro-. tne
eouerry was of course at taxed with the
responsibility of his friends death. To such an
extent was this the case that when Prince FRED
orck Charles of Prussia visited Egypt. ana the
late Khedive sent the equerry, VINO na1 mean-
while become general. to greet the Red frlnce
on his arrival at Alexandria. the latter refused
either 10 receive the Italian or to hold any inter.
course Whatsoever with him. Had the general
only taken the precaution of having one or two
European friends with him on the fatefu day
when his wife's first husband met his death OF
course there would have been no possibility OF
any such gossip or painful suspicious arising.
But then on the other hand the wealthy widow
might not now be his wife
Nor was there any witness of the death or
the Earl Of Dalkeith. the eldest son OF me l1uks
and Duchess Of Bucceuch. save Highland
piIlie devoted TO his young master from the
latter's earliest childhood. and as uneducated
and ignorant as most of his class, ne was IN.
ONLY nnrson with the Earl when the latter bled
to death on a lonely hillside from a terrible
wound inflicted by the accidental discharge OF
his own gun. But had the young LorI com
vant, and had there been any advantage. either
direct or indirect, for him To derive from the
Earl's death. he would assuredly have Decn
subjected to very much the same suspicion as
that which now weighs SO heavily on Mr.; Al
fred Monson. EH-<AA A<ASiAD'