Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1892-03-05 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

THE SUICIDE OF PADLEWSKY.  Padlewsky, wlm murder" I th, Rulsian General, Seliverstoff in an hotel on the Paris Boulevards a little over a year ago, has really committed suicide at San Antonio, in Texas., if we are to believe M. Georges de Labruyore, who assisted the Nihilist to escape from Paris. M. do Labruyare, says a .Dikily Telegraph correspondent, has constructed a romantic story out of Padlewsky's peculiar case. First and foremost he positively states that the man—Otto Hauser—who shot himself in San Antonio, was Padlowsky, and nobody else. Several of the Polo's fellow-countrymen and collea,gues were aware of the death, but they remained silent, for the refugee had in his possession letters taken from General Soliverstoff's bureau, communications from revolutionists, and lists of those of his co-conspirators residing in America. These documents, as M. de Labruyere says, were to be kt pt by every means from falling into the hands of the police. They were either destroyed by Padlewsky before his death, or perhaps soli) or handed over to the Russian authorities. None of them were found on Padlewsky's body, and none of them were seen by the coroner who held the inquest. M. de Labruyore, in commenting on the career of the strange person whom he has selected as a kind of hero' makes him out to have been a victim of love as well as of politics. The assassin of General Seliverstoff had become enamoured while in Paris of the wife of one of his fellow refugees. This woman was a Nihilist like himself, and it was on her account that he wanted ta die, after having first taken a political vengeance for the sake of his cause. Thus Padlewskv, according i to his champion and historian, remained 20 minutes in Seliverstoff's rooms after the murder waiting arrest. Referring to Padlewsky's movements after he escaped from Paris, M. de Labruyere says that the Nihilist wanted to go to London before sailing for America. This determination upset all plans and prevented the Pole from receiving money collected for him in England and Switzerland by sympathetic Revolutionists, who despatched delegates after him in vain. M. Gregoire alone caught up with the refugee at Palermo, whence Padlewsky went to Malta and thence to Gibraltar. At the "Rock" the Pole led a life of wretchedness and want. He was turned out of his hotel, and was about to give himself up to the British authorities, when he met an itinerant Spanish musician, who dove him food and shelter until funds were forthowing. From the "Rock" the Pole went to London nd thence to New York.  In a Bohemian village last week a couple were married on the same day that the bridegroom's parents celebrated their silver wedding and his grandparents their golden wedding. Alse, on that day, a diamond wedding was celebrated at Beiligenkreuz, nf ar Vienna. The Queen's sale of Shorthern, Devon, and Hera fad cattle marks the commencement of a new era In the management of the Royal farms. In future no fat stock is to be exhibited, and only those animals which have be n bred by the Queen will appear at shows. There will be periodical sales of pedigree cattle.