The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-12-23
BUTCHERS ON TRIAL
sTAMBoULOPF's MURDERERs FACE
THEIR CRIME
In Evidence % Introduced . Remarkable
Letter Written by the Premier Months
Before His Assassination, Showing That
He Knew What Kind of Volcano He
Murder Briefly Retold-How . Com.
panioE Of His Was Killed by Being Mis-
taken for Him.

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panioE of His Was Killed by Being Mis-.
taken for Him.
| copyrighted 1895 by the Associated Press
| Sofia, Bulgaria, Dec. 22.-The trial Of
| the persons accused Of the murder OF ex
Premier StambouIoff. who was stabbed
in the streets of this city in July. 1895
resulting in his death or July 10 of thai
year, was formally opened in the couTr
| house, before a mixed tribunal. yester
day and vas continued today.
The accused are: Boni Georgef, aged
| "a, former servant of Major PanitZa
Atzoff, Macedonian, aged 80, Tx
| coachman who drove Stambouloff from
! the Union club to the scene of the crime
Naum Tuffektchieff, an employe in the
building department OF the ministry OF
public works here, and brother Of Dim
itri Tuffeketchieff. who died in prison. as
is asserted, as a result Of tortures in
| f1icted by the direct orders of the late
prime minister
Dimitri Tuffeketchieff was accused OF
completely in the murder of NJ. Belt
cheffe. the minister of finance. who was
assassinated in the street in the pres
ence of NJ. Stambouloff, for whom ne
was mistaken, on March %, 1891.
The court house was strongly guarded
by gen d armes and the general public
was excluded from the building.
STAMBOULOFF'S LETTER.
A letter written by the murdered
statesman to a friend some three months
before his death, was read by the judge
amid profound silence. The letter was
dated Sofia, March 16, 1895. and gave in
INN do.o I1t lafc -
murder. This. information, the letter as
serted, came from one Zarchariew, VINO
was in close touch with band of ten or
fifteen assassins who had Sworn to free
the country from the tyrant Stamboul-
off" The letter declared that the assas-
sins expected clemency from the prince
after short Imprisonment and that a
plot was also afoot for the murder of the
prince himself. 1t duplicates number
Of other political agitators besides those
now on trial. The letter concludes:
These statements 1 have written in
order that it may be known that the
plan of the murderers was known to me,
and that, sooner or later, my friends and
my children may demand their punish
ment.
(Signed.) as. STAMBOULOFF."
"Sofia, March Is, 1895"
STAMBOULOFF0S MURDER.
The murder of NJ. Stambouloff was
brutal In the extreme. He was stabbed,
shot, hacked and beaten in a most ter
rible manner by his assailants who STOP
ped his carriage while he was returning
home, during the evening Of July 10,
from luncheon at the Union club, accom-
panied by a colleague, NJ. Petcoff. Both
of the ex-premier's hands were chopped,
one wrist was almost severed from the
arm: he was repeatedly stabbed about
the body and shot in the head. After he
fell, the assassins continued stabbing
and hacking him until compelled to run
away. The murder is said TO have been
committed within sight Of number Of
gen d. armes, who ran away with the
murderers and made no attempts TO
catch them Both hands were amputat-
ed previous to his death.
TERRELL'S PULL ADVERTISED.
Constantinople. Dec. 22.-The large
measure of clemency on the part of the
sultan toward Armenians, recently re-
ferred to will probably bring about the
release of 1000 prisoners and the remit
lance of all sentences of death. This has
been promised to the patriarch of Ar
menia, but it needs ratification.
AT a council of ministers, at the re-
quest of Mr.. Terrell. the United States
minister, Hatoum Ardarian, who vas
imprisoned at Trebiend, has been re-
leased. Many individuals who surren-
dered to the government as revolution
lists at Aleppo have also been Sc. at lib
erty. the release of the prisoners having
been promised to Mr.. Terrell by the sui
tan.
Constantinople, Turkey, Dec. 22.-An
trade has been issued granting amnesty
to all Armenian prisoners except those
sentenced TO death for murder. The terms
of amnesty include about 100 Armenians
under sentence of death for other offen-
ses than murder.
YOUNG TURKEY IS ACTIVE.
Berlin, Dec. pa dispatch to the
Frankfurter Zeitung from Constantine
pie today says that a rising the Young
Turkey party is feared there. The dis
patch also says that fifty young Turk
ish officers have escaped arrest by flee
ing from the city, and that a number OF
army officers of hight rank have been
taken to the Yildiz palace to be tried by
court martial. At the palace X is furth-
err stated that the usual precautions for
the safety of the sultan have been
doubled and every suspect approaching
the palace is arrested.
BRAZIL'S TURN NEXT.
New York, Dec. 22.-The Herald's cor
at Rio Janeiro, Brazil, teie-
graphs that il is semi-officially announc-
ed that the Brazilian government is in
possession OF documents of the greatest
Importance in relation to that part OF
Guiana which is now in dispute between
Great Britain and Venezuela. These
documents ii is stated. give satisfactory
proof that the territory in question is
within the domain of Brazil. II
IS also declared, on the authority of
persons in the confidence, that when the
dispute between England and Venezuela
is settled Brazil will formally present her
title 10 the territory end expects 10 tri-
umph over all claimants. Braziis claim
to the territory in the general Guiana
district, began with a dispute over por-
ton now under arbitration between that
and France. Her claim TO ad-
joining territory in Venezuela is OF more
recent date. II appears now that Brazil /
has extended her claims in Guiana 10 all
r.tories This includes the Central gold |
fields. in which is the famous Callao !
mine, and no less than three towns
Guacipati. Fl Callao and Tumsrmo. Tne I
claim also involves the possession OF |
rica sugar estates and profits bic graz |
Ing land.
London, Eng, Dec. Pin Brazilian |
quarters here IL is denied that Brazil IA. I
any claim on Venezuelan territory. as /
stated In a dispatch from Buenos Ayres- |
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as a precautionary measure
cabin passengers and whites in Ire /
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