The record-union., 1897-06-13
A Prefect Of Police COnfoSSeS to the Kill
Ing Of a Beautiful Public Singer.
SAYS the Crime Was Committed bv
Order of Prince Ferdinand.
The Raid of House by Police at
Paris Reveals State of Revolving
Corruption of Young Children
Among the Visitors at the Place
Are Said to be Number of
Senators.

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LONDON, June 12.-The past week
has seen the arrival Of numerous mill
tary detachments from the colonies TO
take part in the Queens jubilee festiv-
tiles. The official programme of the
procession, as published, has given UNI
bragg to the Liberals, owing to the ut
ter absence of recognition of the civil
and Industrial side of the Queens reign.
The Daily Chronicle" is very out
spoken on this subject especially at the
emitting of the Speaker of the House
of Commons and of Mr.. Gladstone, and
asks: What kind Of a show is it that
gives a prominet place to the soldiers
of Emperor William and to the repre-
sentatives of Turkish barbarism and
excludes the greatest living English
speaking statesman of the age
An extraordinary murder story comes
from Philipopols Bulgaria, where a
Captain Boitcheff, a prefect of police.
and Novitch, gendarme, have been
arrested on the charge Of numbering
Anna Simon, beautiful singer and the
mistress of the Captain. The latter, it
appears, became tired of Anna, and de-
termined to get rid of her. With the
aid of the prefect and the Captains
brother she was chlOroformed and taken
in a cab to the banks of the Martha
River, where a gendarme was in wait
ing. The latter then threw her into
the water.
The prefect of police has confessed
He says he was told by Captain Bolt
chef that Prince Ferdinand OF Bulgaria
had ordered the woman to be killed. In
connection with this declaration, it is
pointed out that the accomplice Of the
Captain was a court gendarme of the
Princes palace. Captain Boitcheff was
one of the cadets who assisted in the
kidnapping of Prince Alexander of Bull
garia. driving the carriage in which
the latter was transported to the coast.
Prince Ferdinand when he succeeded
Prince Alexander, took a fancy to Bolt
chef, had him educated and attached
him to the suite of Princess Maria Lou
Use, with the rank of Princes Adjutant.
Botcheff's liaison with Anna Simon was
known to everybody in society. Captain
Botcheff made a rich marriage recently,
when the liaison with the unfortunate
singer was much talked of
Princess Adelaide, widow of the first
Dom Miguel of Braganza, the former
head of the royal family of Portugal. is
to take the black veil tomorrow, when
she will be received as a professed choir
nun at the Benedictine Abbey of St. Ce-
cille of Salemes. She is the mother of
the present Duke of Braganza, and her
six beautiful daughters have all made
brilliant matches, one as the wife of the
late Archduke Charles Louis of Austria,
expected to be Empress of Austria; an
other married the brother of the En-
press of Austria. who is an accomplished
oculist and, assisted by his wife, treats
eye diseases gratis.
The police of Paris recently raded a
house in the Rue Camlaceros, where the
revolving corruption of young children
was carried on. The men found there
were liberated, and it is hinted that
Senators were among them. A young
girl named LeDreuX, however, was
thrown into prison, and is still detained
there although there is no charge
against her, the alleged motive being
to prevent her disclosure of certain well
known names. The girls mother. after
having been refused permission to see
her, committed suicide.
minister Baihut, who was re-
Gently arrested in connection with the
Panama fraud disclosures, was unex-
pectedly released yesterday. This is
taken to mean that no further criminal
proceedings will be taken against the
Panama people The shareholders of
ton of the Prince of Arenburg, has de-
cided to erect heroic statue to the late
Count De Lesseps, the engineer of the
canal at Port Said. The cost of the
monument will be about $50 900 francs.
The attitude of the British Govern
ment with regard to the reopening of the
Behring Sea question has recently
undergone some notifications. Where
as some weeks ago it was believed Lord
Salisbury was averse to the question
being discussed until the date arranged
by the Paris award, viz: next year. At
the present moment there is a disposi-
ton to discuss matters now. Inquiry at
the foreign office fails to elicit what this
change is. The greatest reticence is
displayed in the matter, also at the
American Embassy, the officials de-
clining to discuss the matter.
John w Foster, who is now in ST.
Petersburg, is expected back in London
but he had conferences with Embas-
sador Hay and on the day previous to
departure he had an interview of nearly
an hour with Mr.. Liepes of the North
American Commercial Company who
has been in communication with the
Embassy during Mr.. Bayard's term of
office regarding the false statements
alleged to have been made by Canadian
sealers respecting the size of the catch.
During the interview, Mr.. Foster,
asked as to the propositions he was to
lay before the Russian Government, re-
piled that he would not know until he
got to St. Petersburg. Mr.. Foster was
informed by Mr. Leibes that his going to
Russia and any arrangements he might
make there would not be binding upon
England, as Great Britain, so far as he
could learn, would do nothing in the
matter until the five years specified by
the Paris awards had expired
Mr. Liebes reported that he had re-
ceived from his own people on the is
lands early this month reports showing
that seals were scarcer than ever, and
that this year will only be third of
last year.
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