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Show SELECTED. A Terrible Hussian Tragedv.7-Several Tragedv.7-Several weeks ago there were given in these columns the particulars of a strange Russian tragedy, including the findintr, in a trunk, at one of the rail way depots of Moscow, of the body of one M. de Zohn, formerly a rich French merchant, and at last a Prussian Prus-sian nobleman, who had been inveigled to a certain house in the city of the czars, and there, at the bight of a wild reve1, slain and cut to pieces at the behest of a wonderfully beautilul girl named AlVa a. Upon the arrest of this girj, with her companions, she not only vaunted the crime .-he had directed, di-rected, but fiercely declared that the mutilated remains were those of her father, and that she had ctu-ed the murder in fulfil'ment of a vow which she had made in infancy to her mother wno had been betrayed and then left to die of want and misery by id. de Zohn in his younger days- By late jou nals it appears that the trial has begun in S:. 1 eiersLuig, and further details of the tragedy have been developed. After the unsuspecting unsuspect-ing nobleman had been brought in o the house, and was rendered unsteady by deep drinkinsr, he was deliberately robbed of all the money and jt-wehy upon bis person. In answer to his i I pretests and threats of complaint to 1 the police, he was told that the rubbery bad been merely a quizzical juke tu try his nerves, and that he mu-t drink l again in honor of the excellence of such wit. The gill Afra.a presented him with a glass of wine in which cyanide cy-anide of potassium had been di.-sohed, and no Sooner had he drank lia.i the - deadly draught than he fell backward, gasping, upon the divan on which he j had been sitting, with the ciy, "Wo ' man. you have poisoned me! ' With eyes on lire wiih hereditary hatred, ha-tred, Afraia bent over him in his ag ony, and told him that she was his child, and that his death was the penalty pen-alty of having wronged her poor i mother! hile yet the wretched man glared at her, in ghastiy discredit of such frightful retribution, one of her ' masculine accomplices passed a leather strap about his neck, dragging, him to the floor, while another beat our his brains with a bar of iron. The li.-ii -ured body was then cue into pieces, placed in a trunk, and the l itter sent to a railway station at Moscjw. where its timely discovery by the police led to the detection and arrest of the mur- I oY-rcrs. Y. World. i |