The Northern Guardian. — 1897-07-23 (Hartlepool, Cleveland, England)

DAILY NEWS" TELEGRAM.] Nienna, Thursday Night,  The trial oi the men accused of the murder of the girl Anna Szimon, in Philippopolis, proves so interesting that there is a tight every day over the hundred and thirty places in court. The Austrian Consul and his secretary attend each day, and so does the President of the Sobranje, a great number of officers, and, strange to say, the young wife of the accused Major .Boitscheff. She comes in a striking dress, with roses in her 4at, white gloves, and a smile for her husband and her friends. The Major is dressed in the latest fashion, wears the ribbon of a foreign decoration, the medal for bravery, and yellow gloves. His moustache is waxed and turned upward, his attitude is self-conscious •and Vain. The indictment was read aloud. He laughed at several passages, but most when the scene was mentioned in which big brother when drunk paid his addresses to the irrardered girl, and she defended herself against him with a log of wood. When the indictment stated that Boitscheff had Looked Out For a Rich Wife and had found her and married her, it was Madame Boitscheff's turn to simper and laugh. Novelies, the ex-prefect, is the very reverse of Boititheff. He is boken down and ashamed, and , unable to answer the first questions addressed to , him otherwise than by nods. The gendarme Bogdan Waszilien looks the stolid tool that he was. Bogdan was first examined. He admitted the truth of all he had previously deposed, but hc persists in saying that he did not know what was going to happen until Anna jumped out if tile carriage. Ex-Prefect of Police Novelics, on 'wing examined, admitted everything, but denied having had a hand in the affair. He asserts that both before and after the murder Boitscheff told him that the Prince and Princess wished that an end should be put to the scandal at any price. Novt:ics persists in saying that Anna lived when she was taken out of the carriage, and that Boitsehrtfi throttled Her in the Road, • but the court assumes that Boitscheff and Novelies throttled her together when she ,ast +Tied to escape by jumping out of the window. When the papers of Sofia first hinted at the murder, N ovelies wrote to Boitscheff asking to get ths Itince to hush up the matter. Boitscheff's answer was an order to the Prefect to write (nit a police certificate that Anna Szimon had left fur Vienna. He did this with the help of the proprietress of the Cafe Chantant. Boitseheff's examination thrilled the court. He was gay and witty, had seen nothing, heard nothing, had given no ertlre, had never worn a civilian's overcoat over uniform, and on being shown the rings which Novelics had taken off the girl's fingets, said Oa:. one of them had been stolen from him by Anna in the days when he was intimate witn Ler• He admitted to Novelics having asked if in to Hush Up the Affair, but denies having said that the Prince and Pniiems wished an end to be put to the scandal. On the night of the murder he had attended tie Princess on a walk, and had then gone nome. had never told a soul that the Prince had given orders that the girl should be murdered. If he had wished to murder Anna he could have done so without Novelics. He declared he had never written either to Anna or her father, and had never seen her father. He had paid Anna whenever he had been near her, and had given her the means of living. On being shown the murierrd girl's picture and asked if he recognised her, he said coldly, "Yes, to be sure!" He admitted hay- 1 ing asked Novelics to lock the girl up! He supposed Novelics killed her because she tried to • escape him when he was taking her across the frontier. Perhaps Novelics thought he was doing him a service. Novelics repeatedly made the sign of ,the cross while Boitscheff was making tbrm depositions.