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Show I A ST. PETERSBURG SCANDAL, I Many of the Member of tha Aristocracy I Involved In tha Aflalr. St. PETERSBrno, Jan. 7. Special ta The Times. A terrible scandal has! come to light in this city, the details of which are similar to that which convulsed con-vulsed London society sometime ago and was strongly animadverted upon by continental papers as evidencing m state of morality in England far below that of any of the other western nations. na-tions. In the present instance some of Vw, the highest members of the Russian aristocracy are implicated and the chief offender is an exalted personage. For sometime past the attention of the police po-lice has been called to a club in tha vicinity of the Nevski prefect. The) edifice was unpretending enough on the outside, but on crossing tho threshold the vestibule showed at once that tha interior was embellished in the most artistic way. The czar was informed by his secret police, and he ordered tha . . prefect of police forthwith to close up ' J the club, notwithstanding the appeal! , , of the wife of the president of the club, ' who is a princess of great beauty and -high attainments. The parties arrested will be sent to Siberia for a term of years and further inquiry will be prosecuted. pros-ecuted. It is expected that other high) 1 personages will be implicated. |