Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1913-06-20

that the murder of the caro-
witch was a part of his scheme to clear
his own way to. the throne.
The doWager czarina, under the name
of Maria, was condemned to go into
retirement in the ST. Nicholas nunnery,
n her two brothers. Michae and
Gregory, were exiled from the capital
to a distance of 500 miles. Boris also
quickly silenced all who dared to hint
that the slain child's body had not
borne any marked resemblance to De-
metrius.
At the close of the famine and plague
which desolated Russia from 1901 to
1903 a rumor out of the Lithuanian
border spread itself with frightful RAJ
pidity through all the provinces. 1.-The
alive and had been seen in Poland"
This Demetrius was now a youth OF
%. which would have been the age OF
the prince had he lived. He was not
tall. but he had VANS broad should
ers, with his mothers swarthy COM
plexion.
He had been living as a servant of
Prince Adam Viszniewski, and he re-
Vealed his secret to a Jesuit priest
when he believed he was dying. The
priest seems to have kept silent for a
time. The servant in a few weeks re-
covered his health, but soon after. how
ever, the prince lost his temper at the
youth and with an oath struck him..
If you knew who l was" retorted
the servant, you would not dare
strike me or swear at me. / am the
Prince Demetrius, son Of Ivan the
Car
To back his claim, he told how the
man sent to murder him had slain q
peasant child instead, and had carried
Demetrius into Poland, where the lad
grew to manhood as a servant. The
maj who had saved him was dead,
but the youth added a bit of proof to
the tale. by exhibiting a jeweled seal
bearing Demetrius' crest and a dia-
mond cross that had been his baptis-
NAL gift.
AT this the prince introduced him as
the son of Ivan the Terrible, and the
first time he came out under his title
a Russian named Petrovski threw him.
self at his feet and proclaimed that he
clearly recognized the young master.
and h%enceforth all doubts fled. and a
court of noble Polanders ranged them
selves around the lost prince.
People We're tired OF the tyrannical
Boris and thousands flocked to DEM
etrius' standard when he marched
across the frontier with a Polish army
to claim his throne. hi mother of
the murdered czarowitch was brought
from her convent-prison and she de-
clared that she could easily recognize
him as her son.. She admitted long
afterwards that he was not her son,
but that his promise OF freedom and
wealth for her, made her pretend to
identify him. At any rate Demetrius
was crowned czar in June, 1906 and
began his brief reign in a wise. just
manner. Gut he soon showed that he
was the friend of Poland, which i,s-
furiated Russia, and when he married a
Polish girl. this match was the last
STRAW that broke his luck,
Eleven months after he had beer
proclaimed ga he was murdered and
his body was dragged through the
streets of the capital SO that all might
see what had been ne fate of the
young man who had claimed to be the
son Of Ivan the Terrible. There is no
way of learning of the actual facts re-
garding this Russian mystery. and
there are those who believe that it was
nothing more than a plot on the part
of the clever young Polander, but there
are others who are of the opinion that
he really was the young czarowitch
who. had been b%anished from his nome
country in d that his designing
uncle could carry out his scheme of
becoming the car.