Omaha daily bee., 1902-03-23
SEQUEL TOASSYRIAN MURDER
Closing Scene of Tragic Drama smaOks Of
Orange Blossoms.
saba ABLAN AND NADRA BoLUs TO WEI
Bride-EIect Il the Maid of s~uperIative
Beauty, over whom Fatal auarreI
Between BaardOwseI and
BoIus BeEan.

saida Ablan, whom her friends champion
as the most beautiful girl In Omaha, Is to
marry Nadra Bolus, and the wedding Will
be the closing scene Of the drama OF the
Assyrian colony on South Thirteenth street,
In which one actor lost his life and another
was forced to fee.
1t was Nadra Bolus who took out the
license yesterday-the same Nadra who had
Quarreled with Joseph Baardoweel before
Joseph stabbed Najaab Sadly to the heart
that clear November morning last fall. And
Nadra names as his bride-elect saida Ablan
the same Saba for love Of whom he and
Joseph had quarreled and become most i'm
rlacable Of enemies. The same Saida, in
fact, whose beauty and guileless charms
were really the unwilling inspiration Of the
tragedy.
Not all SWANS OF Yankee taste and Yam
kee loyalty will concede the claim Of the
Assyrians that her beauty casts a shadow
on that Of every other gentle face and
graceful figure in Omaha, but true It Is
that none can look once upon her and be
content to turn away. Hers is a pristine
beauty, as simply sweet as a Madonna's.
but with all the bloom and fragrance Of a
healthy, blameless youth. There is a carees
In the very droop of her Jet eyelid. an
IL ~ AhSh VI Nho Adl1Nh pupil W.
hind it. Neither stout nor spare, her form
is as delicately wrought as her face, and
no ribs of steel or bone nave ever been per-
mitted to torture its natural lines.
Groom is No polio.
But the groom is no such beauty. He
has not the dissipated disfgurements OF his
erstwhile rival, Joseph B~aardoweel, but he
Is short, a bit bow-legged and pre-emi-
nently a mar Of commerce. His wife OF the
future could be exalted on a posing block
and rot seem out Of place, but Nadra is no
statue. He came from Assyria to this
country ten years ago with NO money, but
a large ambition to get some and he has
stuck to his purpose so we'll that now he is
known to be worth considerably more than
$4,000 and is adding to the sum every day.
True, his store at 1922 South Thirteenth
street, Just a block south Of the scene Of
the murder, Is between two livery stables
and is such a dilapidated shack as>to seem
seriously endangered by any blow as strong
as a college yell, but Nadra doesn't mind
and Saida hasn't learned the difference, SO
why need he improve. His customers are
largely peddlers. and p~eddlers are not wont
to complain of the condition of the paint on
the front Of their shopping place.
Properly, Madras last name is not Bolus.
1t is Eessy, which is not a hard name to
pronounce when it is spelled this way, but
would be II spelled as in Assyrian. He gets
the name Bolus just as many other boys
have In A~ssyria-that is by taking as their
last names the first names OF the fathers.
And Saida's last name properly is the same
as Madras, for her grandfather and Madras
father were brothers, bearing the family
name Eessy. Baardoweel was even more
closely related to the girl, his mother and
hers having been sisters, but the girl. her
friends say, never would have married him.
for his life was wild and his standing
among Assyrians far from good.
Brides Father Is Keen.
saida's father Is apparently something OF
a business mar himself, for about a year
ago he observed that Nadra was prosper
ing and incidentally In need Of a wife. The
old gentleman packed a handkerchief and a
shoe box and started back to Assyria. Be-
fore he went, 1t is said. he talked with
Nadra In great frankness and when he
returned five months ago he brought with
him two daughters and Nadra knew II was
up to him to say which. Nadra is not a
blind man and he chose the prettier OF
the two. Then the old gentleman smiled
a glad, contented smile and moved in with
Nadra to make his home over the store