The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-16
STAMBULOF STABBED
Ex-Premier of Bulgaria is MUIR
derously Assaulted.
There Are Now No Hopes That
He Will Live.
CUT OFF HIS HAND.
Hands So Badly Cut They Had
TO be Amputated.
Officers Believed to Have Been
in the Conspiracy.
CUT OFF HIS HAND.

SOFIA, Bulgaria, July -Stambulof,
sx-premier of Bulgaria, was returning
home last evening from the Union club
accompanied by a collegue, Nj. Petchof,
when they were attacked by four persons
armed with reviewers and knives.
III. Stambuloff received several wounds
in the head and lost a quantity of blood.
His condition ia serious. The assailants
attacked the carriage, compelling the
coachman to stop M. Stambuloff's SER
want fired his revolver, but missed the
mark. NJ. StambuloH jumped out and
Immediately received a cut which almost
severed his hand from his wrist.
Nj. Stambuloff then tried to escape, but
was followed and stabbed in the head
and received a revolver shot, when he
fell to the ground, where his assailants
continued their stabs. badly wounding
his other hand. He declares that he saw
gendarmes running away as well as the
assailants.
The shots were heard at the Union
club, and friends came and found n.
|, STAN buloff covered with blood and sur
rounded by several persons and gend-
armes, none of whom had noticed where
the assailants had fed to.
III. Stambuloff was taken to his house
and laid upon sofa While surrounded
by his political friends, the chiefs of po
lice wanted to enter the house, but the
wounded statesman's wife sternly for
bade them to do so, and accused them of
completely in the crime. She told them
to search for the culprits. Several ar
rests have been made,
There is great indignation felt in the
city. The attack was made upon fre-
quented street 1t is generally remark
ed now that the last number of the gov
ernment newspaper organ violently at
| tacked NJ. Stambuloff. accusing him of
being a foreign spy.
The outrage is believed to be the per-
sonal vengeance of persons who suffered
during his regime premier.
! At a. N. StambuIof was alive, but
| his condition was pronounced to be
hopeless. He has fifteen sword cuts on
his head and one of his eyes has been
destroyed. Although the attempt to
murder him was made on a busy street
no one came TO his assistance.
| EVERYBODY seems to he convinced that
the police were in the plot to assassinate
| the ex premier, as five members of the
! police force who we're near him when he
WAS attacked, made no attempt to inter-
fere. Then again one of the
| Stambuloff's servants chased one of the
assassains but the man was stopped by
the police.
M. Stambuloff's coachman who fred
his revolver but missed hitting
any body when the ex-premier' 5
as5ailants attacked the carriage last
night is also believed to have been one
of those who plotted against the states
mans life, as he made no attempt to
whip up his horses when the attack was
made.
The police and detachments of cavalry
patrolled sofia throughout last night but
they seem to have found no trace of the
assassins except some daggers which
| were found on the streets.
LONDON, July 16-A dispatch to the
Times from Sofa. says that both of NJ.
Stambuloff's hands have been amputated
One of his assailants was wounded.
A dispatch to the Pail Mall Gazette
from Sofia this morning, says the con-
ditlon of ex-Premier Stambuloff who
was murderously assaulted yesterday
evening while returning from the Union
club by four persons armed with revoI-
vers and knives is hopeless.