The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-07-12
MURDERED BY coURTIERs.

Girl Bound and Drowned Near Prlnce
i Ferdinand's Palace-Oflicers and
High Officials the Murderers-A Ro-
nance of Three Countries and its
Terrible Ending in the Rapids OF the
Maritza-A Rising Glimpse of Dark
est Europe.
The most remarkable story Of murder
| that has been revealed on the Europe
an continent since Stambuloff's assassl-
nation has been unrayelled slowly in
| Budapest, Vienna, Sofia and Phhippop-
oils in the last six weeks. Unlike the
plot against Stambuloff, 1t belongs out
side Of the domain of politics. 1t Is
| largely O story of love and hate in the
ordinary relations of society," : Never
theless 1T teaches the same lesson as
did the political crime, regarding the
barbaric life in the best society of q
race that is supposed to be part of the
civilized. world The two murdsrers in
the last crime are a captain III the Bull
garian army and the protect of police in
Philippopolis. The man who hired
them to kill is a Bulgarian major, al
ready gazetted as esfirst .adjutant of
Ferdinand of Coburg, the reigning
Prince of Bulgaria Tie scene of the
murder was stones throw from the
summer home of this prince. Yet the
whole power of the Bulgarian govern
ment has been put forth to suppress
the facts and to save the three guilty
officers from punishment.
Only in response to pressure from Blu
dapest and Vienna have the Bulgarian
police slowly traced the plot of the
crime First 1t was announced by them
that Anna Simon, q Hungarian girl of
twenty-five years, had disappeared and
probably had been murdered Then
they acknowledged that she had been
murdered, but asserted that the MUIR
derer had escaped. After repeated
threats and demands from Budapest,
where the girls parents lived, they ad-
mitted that Captain Boitcheff, her for
mer lover, might be the guilty man. al
though they could find no evidence
against him. Finally they We're forced,
about two weeks ago, to arrest Bolt
chef, and the whole shameful story,
which had seemed so insignificant when
mentioned briefly in the newspapers,
came out. That story follows:
Anna Simon was the daughter of a
royal Hungarian official. Not far from
her home in Budapest was a cafe chan
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| her beauty when. she passed his resort
twice. daily, on her wsy to and from
school. Five years. ago last spring
when she was in her seventeenth year,
I he induced her to leave her home to
sing and dance on his stage. Her faith
er took legal steps to force her to return
! home. but the manager of the cafe
chantant thwarted him by hurrying her
off with a travelling company of music
hall performers to Belgrade. There she
was known as the beautiful Hungari-
an She carried her reputation to So
fla with her.; and in the Bulgarian capt.
/ tai soon had as many officers at her
| beck and call as there were commits
sions in the garrison. While singing In
-Philippopolis, the second city of Bulga-
ria in size and trade, she met Captain
Biotcheff. She fell in love with him,
| left the stage to live with him, and, sur
prising as 1t may seen, never wavered
in her faithfulness to him through all
/ the devious courses which he pursued
up to the hour of her death.
| Anna Simon lived with Boitcheff and
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countenanced the relations Of her son
and the singer does not seem to have
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