Show LL D inori RIA Former Pet of the Czar Is Pardoned After T Thirty Years' Years Hard Labor i in the Silver Mines ST. ST PETERSBURG PETERSBURG July e. e The The czar has extended the Imperial pardon to a a. down broken-down man man- named who thirty years ago was a dashing Lieutenant Lieutenant Lieuten Lieuten- ant In the Guards and one of the best known society men In St. St Petersburg The exercise of the imperial clemency has created a great stir In the Russian capital for tor It calls to mind a singular story stow of a generation ago now wrecked by thirty years of hard labor In the silver slIver mines of SIberia Si Siberia SI- SI beria was once the most stalwart man In Inthe Inthe inthe the Guards and one of the handsomest He lived fast and spent money far tar In excess excess ex cess of his in Income inome ome S His debts were enormous and In order to gain some res respite from his his' creditors he applied ed for a loan to a f friend of hI his rt i edS le lea cg Bo fathers father's S State Councilor n Vasso a wealthy man who had a good deal of fondness for the spendthrift guardsman Creased Jr at 1 an Indebtedness de alarming f to rite rate and l the InCreased In- In State Councilor growing anxious began to press his debtor unpleasantly thereupon had bad r recourse course to matrimony fl and became engaged fid Oth o to a wealthy Countess r the daughter a of the defender of Sebastopol Gen ben When the news of his engagement reached VIas sot he sent a aletter letter to the young officer In which the following passage passage passage pas pas- sage occurred Just JUt wait walt my hW boy I shall send you a marriage gift gUt which will astonish you Regarding this letter as a threat to take for the recovery of the money entered house cut his throat then went to the library and hunted about for his notes These he discovered at last but what was his pis surprise when he saw on top of ot the bundle a letter addressed to himself congratulating him on his marriage and mentioning that the n notes were re sent back to eg him nt as ga a a. wedding present e surrendered to the police and after a short trial was sentenced to the mines for or life ife |