The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-06-13
MURDERS HIS FAIR MISTRESS.
SENSATIONAL CRIME IN HIGH LIFE
IN BULGARIA.

A Captain in the Army, a Prefect of
Police and a Court Gendarme the
Principals in the WOrk-The XVo-
man a Public SinGer-First ChIOEO-
formed and Then DrOwned-The
Captain Claims Prince Ferdinand
Ordered the KiIIing-Princess Ade-
Iaide to Take the Black Veil.
Special London Cable Letter.
London, June IAN extraordinary
murder story comes from Philippopolls,
Bulgaria, where a Capt. Boitcheff, the
prefect Of police of Novitich and a gem
darme have been arrested on the charge
of murd@ing Anna Szimon, beautiful
public singer and the mistress of the cap
tain. The latter it appears became tired
of Anna and determined 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 the gendarme was
in waiting. The latter then threw her into
the water. The prefect of police has con-
fessed. He says he was
told by Capt. Boitcheff that
Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria had ordered
the woman to be killed In connection
with this declaration it is pointed out that
the accomplices of the captain was court
gendarme of the princes palace. Capt.
Boitcheff was one of the cadets who as
sisted in kidnapping Prince Alexander of
Bulgaria, driving the carriage in which
the latter was transported to the coast
Prince Ferdinand, when he succeeded
Prince Alexander took fancy to Capt.
Boitcheff and had him educated and at
tached him to the suite of the Princess Ma
ria Louise, with the rank of princes ad-
jutant. Capt Boitcheff's iasion with
Anna Szimon was known to everybody in
society. Capt Boitcheff made a rich mar
riage recently, when the liasion with the
unfortunate singer was much talked of.
There is serious alarm in all circles of
the French capital at the avowed inten-
ton of the parliamentary committee,
which is now dealing with the Berenger
bill, to restrict not only the sale but the
possession of over 100 masterpieces of the
most illustrious authors of France, and
imprisonment for month to two years,
and a fine of 100 to 5000 francs are the
penalties for lending or giving any of
them away.
NJ. Berenger, who heads the purity
movement is being urged to take up a
scandal which has caused a considerable
sensation in Paris. The police of that
city recently raided a house in the Rue
Camlaseres, where a revolving corruption
of young women was carried on.
The men found there were liberated and
it is hinted that senators were among
them. A young girl named Lepreux, how
ever, 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.
The shareholders of the Suez canal COM
pany on the motion of the Prince of Aren-
berg have decided to erect a heroic statue
to the late Count de Lesseps, engineer of
the canal, at Port Said The cost of the
monument will be about $4,000 francs.
Princess Adelaide. widow of the first
Dom Maguel 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. Cecilia of
Solesmes. She is the mother of the pres
ent Duke of Braganza and her six beau
tiful daughters have all made brilliant
matches. One as the wife of the late
Archduke Charles Louis of Austria, ex-
pected to be Empress of Austria. An
other married the brother of the Empress
of Austria, who is an accomplished oc-
culist, and assisted by his wife, treats
eye diseases. Princess Adelaide has been
a novice in the abbey since June u, 1896,
and was herself a famous beauty. She
always had a tendency toward convent life
and the fire at the Charity Bazaar in Paris
on May decided her to take the black
veil.
The czar's baby Is to receive a singular
name, Tatiana.
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