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Be Murdered Twenty Wooieo,
Russian Bluebeard, Whose Crimes Excei the Awful Deeds of
Grimm's Monster. Gets Off With a Sen
tence of Fifteen Years.
? Russia's Bluebeard. Feodotoff, who
ir.iurdered twenty woman in Verkhotu
?rye within the past five years and
iburled their bodies in his forest her
mitage, was recently convicted and
sentenced to penal servitude for fifteen
years.
The sentence, admittedly a travesty
upon justice, is said to have been made
so light because Feodotoff had terror
ized the judge with a threatened curse
in case the latter condemned him to
?life imprisonment or to death.
Not since the fabled times of Grimm's
Bluebeard has such a monster been
known In Russia or any other land.
Under cover of a monk's gown Feodo
toff lured to his fake shrine in the for
est the fairest women in half of Permi
r.fter outrage was perpetrated by the
monk upon hi3 numerous victims.
Woman after woman disappeared from
Verkhoturye and was never seen
again.
These frightful crimes and orgies
might have gone on years longer but
that a young Cossack lieutenant, dis
trusting his bride, followed her to the
lonely hermitage one night broke into
the chapel and there came upou Feo
dotoff gloating over her dead body.
Examination of the hermitage grounds
showed the graves of eighteen other
women buried there and thousands of
dollars in jewels and money which the
monk had induced them to bring him
in penance for their confessed sins.
The maddened inhabitants of Ver
> FOLLOWED HER TO THE LONELY HERMITAGE ONE NIGHT.
province. There he attacked them,
stole their jewels and money and nnal
,ly murdered them, o.ie after another,
until the cellar of his lone monastery
iwas literally an overflowing graveyard.
; Feodotoff, a handsome man of thirty,
'suddenly appeared in the little Ural
mountain village ten years ago and sat
'simself down In the hamlet inn, pre
tending to be a priest' He offeVed the
confiding townsfolk no account of him
self or of his.religious order?he might
'have come " from No Man's Land?but
he professed to heal the .sick and re
ceive confessions. "Soon'he was the
oracle of the village. A little later he
'had been established in a hermitage
built for him by the people in the for
est outside of the town!
There, under promises of workings
of cures, he lured oue after another of
the village girls to his den. Outrage
khoturye burned down the hermitage
that night but none dared raise hand
against the murderer, who threatened
to curse any who approached him. j
His trial was brought about with the
greatest difficulty, for the terrorized
judges of the province had not the
courage to brave his threat that heav
en would strike down with lightulug
any who dared fii#] him guilty.
Finally one ju&t was found who
would try the lViuebeard upon the
charge of stealing vessels from
churches. The murders were passed 1
over in fear, but a conviction of the
petty accusation was obtained and a
sentence of fifteen years was Imposed.
Feodotoff was taken at'once to a Si
berian prison just across the moun
tains. The village has gone into a
year's observance of mourning for his
murdered victims.
Coffins Moved In Sealed Vault.
The Unsolved Mystery of a "Haunted" Tomb In the PaNsh of
Christchurch, Barbados.
1 A tale of the mysterious movement
of coffins in a sealed vault in the par
ish of Christchurch, Barbados, has
long been told in that island. Fresh
authentic evidence just brought to
light and published in the West India
committee circular confirms the story
and renders it mysterious in the ex
treme.
I On successive occasions when the
Chase family vault in the churchyard
near Distin's 'Town was opened the
coffins were found to be disarranged.
A manuscript account by the Hon.
Nathan Lucas, who witnessed the
opening of the vault in 1S20, has been
unearthed.
The document states that the vault
was opened several times for the in
terment of bodies in the first decade!
of the nineteenth century. Each time f
the coffins were found in extraordi
nary positions, and after a burial in
1819 the matter became a much talked
of mystery. Mr. Lucas was discussing
it with friends in 1S20. and they de
cided then and there to open the vault
and see if the coffins had moved again.
They found the heavy slabs over the
entrance untouched, and no marks of
vlolerce were anywhere visible. But
in the vault itself the six coffins were
once again disarranged, lying on top
of each other and at curious angles
The vault was In such a position that
water?of which there were no signs
could not have flooded it There has
been no earthquake to account for the
mystery and no attempt to rob the
corpses.
Negroes' fear of the dead rendered
it certain that they baa no baud in it
and the theory of a practical joke was
never entertained. "All I know," runs
the document, "is that it happened
and that I was an eyewitness of the
fact."
Subsequently relatives removed all
the coffins from the haunted vault and
buried them in ordinary graves.
I. Girls Lose Jobs For Saying "Damn."
I Mary Howland, Anna Gowdy, The
resa Patterson and Florence Gilchrist
all are copyists in the county clerk's
office at Denver. Chief Clerk William
iLail, a hardworking member of the Y.
M. C. A., declares that he has found
many mistakes In the work of the
girls, which resulted in a tangle in the
office Lail remonstrated rather sharp
ly with one of them, and the only an
swer he received was "that she did not
give a damn" whether the work was
right or not More grieved than anger
ed, Lail went to the others and says
he received the same answer. He dis
missed them all. The girls vehement
ly deny using anything stronger than
"darn."
They Tried to Chloroform a Cat.
cat was caught and chloroform admin
istered, but the animal struggled to get
free. The chloroform waj spilled, and
Miss '"'arr, Mrs. Carr and Miss Her
bert were overcome. A physician aft
er several hours' work managed to re
suscitate all three. The cat escaped.
In an endeavor to dispose of a cat
In humane fashion Miss Grace Carr,
her sister-in-law. Mrs. Carr, and her
cousin, Miss Herbert, all of Lexiugton,
Ky., came nearer to death than the
cat It was a thieving cat and the
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Real Jean Valjean Freed.
Bank Robber. Who Had Escaped, Married and Led an Upright
Life Was Rearrested.
John H. Allison. Michigan's Jean
Valjean. walked out of Jackson prison.
In Michigan, the other day a free man.
At the prison gate his wife and baby
met him. aud he gathered them both
Into his arms, murmuring tenderest
words of endearment and gratitude
gratitude for the faithfulness of the
little- woman who has stood by him so
plucklly and whose constant appeals In
his behalf at last brought him his con
ditional pardon.
The first ecstatic moments passed, Al
lison's wife led him to the home, just a
block away from the prison walls,
where she established herself soon
after he was returned to prison and
where she has remained all these
weary months of his incarceration.
When an Interviewer came In shortly
after Allison was silting in the cozy
little room, his face radiating happi
ness. On his lap sat his daughter Lau
ra, two years old. her chubby arms
around his neck, pressing kisses on his
face every moment. Near them sat
Mrs. Allison, the napplest woman In
Michigan.
"Haveu't I got the grandest little
wife In the world?" he said. "If it
bad not been for her John Allison
would still be doing time. I owe her
more than I can ever repay."
He declared he intended to go to
work at once and show himself the
man he has been represented to be. He
said that before his release his fellow
prisoners made up a purse of $30 for
him from money they had earned, a
few cents a days, working in prison.
Allison was arrested seven years ago
for bank robbery and sent to Jackson
prison. He escaped three years ago.
When he was rearrested eight months
ago In MoHne. 111., he was married, had
a baby and was living an upright, hon
orable life. He was put back In prison.
His wife moved to Jackson that she
might be near her husband and work
for his release.
Forced to Listen to Confidences of Two Women Who Didn't Know
He Was There, His Modesty Compelled Him to
Come Out and Surrender.
Somewhere in Philadelphia there is
a burglar who oil one of his expedi
tions dropped in on a pink tea in the
home ?f Dr. Ralph Doming of 312
South Fifteenth street. Being natural
ly of a modest nature, the burglar
didn't come in by way of the front
door, but climbed In through a side
window. He didn't know it was Mrs.
Deming's afternoon to receive ber
friends, and in ordinary circumstances
he would have left the place as hur
riedly as possible.
As he looked about the back parlor
In whicii he stood he saw so many
souvenirs he felt he would like to take
with him that he decided to help him
self. He was packing up many of
Mrs. Deming's belongings when the
sound of footsteps caused him to dodge
hastily under a writing desk.
Up to this point the actions of the
burglar were like those of the ordinary
housebreaker, nor were his experiences
it no longer, and, crawling from under
the desk, he sat on the tloor and faced
the women. They were so astonished
at seeing him that they forgot to
scream. The intruder looked almost
sorrowfully into their faces and said:
"I came here to lift what 1 could.
I'm a burglar. I've heard lots of
things said to me; but, say, I couldn't
stand this talk of yours no longer."
The women didu't reply, aud the bur
glar went on:
"Go on; call the cops. Have me
pinched. Me for the cooler, but no
more breaking Into pink teas."
"Did you hear what we were talking
about?" asked Mrs. Demlng in alarm.
"Did I hear?" the man replied. "You
bet I heard every word of It I was
on the point a couple of times of get
ting up and telling you there was a
man present I've got a wife and four
smull children, and I was afraid they'd
suffer if I got locked up. so I tried to
HE SAT ON THE FLOOR AND FACED THE WOMEN.
unusual. What followed, however, will
linger long in the memory of the man.
The incident was kept secret by Mrs.
Doming and by Miss Minnie Taylor,
who accompanied the wife of the phy
sician into the rear parlor a moment or
two after the burglar had found a hid
ing place under the desk, until Miss
Taylor told of her experience.
The two women had left the other
friends of Mrs. Deining so as to have
a quiet little chat by themselves. They
sat on either side of the desk under
which the burglar was stretched aud
exchanged confidences. They spoke of
many things dear to women's hearts
and meant only for their ears. The
burglar was growing uneasy, but the
two women didn't know it. Being un
aware of his presence, they continued
their little chat.
Being entirely unused to hearing the
private conversations of women of re
finement and also being possessed with
anxiety to finish his business In the
house as quickly as possible, the bur
glar tried to remain patient while the
women conversed. Finally he could bear
stay where I was ami hear it through."
Seeing that the story of the wife and
four children appealed to the women,
the burglar described their poverty and
remarked they would starve to death
if he were "sent up."
"This is my first offense," he plead
ed, "and I think I got punished
enough."
In describing what followed the ap
peal of the burglar Miss Taylor said:
"He was such a nice young man
lie couldn't have been more than twen
ty-three years old, aud we felt sorry
for him, so we just stood him up iu a
corner and gave him a lecture. He
listened respectfully and promised to
lead an honest life and never again
become a thief. Auer he made the
promise we walked with him down to
the front door and let him out"
"What were you and Mrs. Demlng
talking about when you were enter
taining unconsciously the hidden vis
itor?" Miss Taylor was asked.
"We were talking of things," she re
plied, "that he hadn't any right to
hear."
Fell into Baptismal Font.
H. D. Brandreth of Liverpool. Eng
land, who was asked to address the
congregation of the Baptist church In
Kirk wood, Mo., fell Into the baptismal
font while walking through the church
to the pulpit Mr. Brandreth is the
father of Mrs. C. Hart McLea of Kirk
wood. II? went to the church Sunday
evening prepared to speak. In pnss'np
the baptismal pool, which Is sunk lu
the floor, he failed to notice that it
was open. He fell with a splash int<
the water and was drenched from head
to foot The congregation helped bin
out. and a carriage was called to taki
him to his daughter's home.
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Bescencent oi Confucius.
Here Is a little sketch of Confuci
us' seventy-sixth lineal uescendant,
who lives in a Yaman of China:
Duke K'ung received us in his official
robes, and was most kind and affable.
He Is a toll, strongly made man of
35 years of age. The Duke speaks no
English. His Highness, does not of_
ten leave his home, and has only
twice visited Peking. The large num
ber of members of his establishment
who crowded into the hall to listen to
the audience caused me to ask the
Duke if he kept a large establish
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sisted of fully 400 souls. His revenue
is derived from the villages o!.' the
neighborhood for many miles around,
one village as far away from Ciufou
as 400 li (140 miles) paying an- an
nual sum. His Highness expressed
friendly sentiments toward foreign
ers, whom he alleges he is always
glad to receive when they visit Chu_
fou. He expressed the opinion .that
English' was practically the official
language of China."
Provision ior oeit-Aus/eruaemisnt.
Authorities who have in charge
some of England's' ancient treasures
try to discourage the habit of carving
initials on these relics. A fine of $15
was recently imposed on a man who
had chipped his name in letters six
inches high on one of the stones in
the "Druids' Circle" near Keswick.
Close to the giant stone globe at
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nmcs of all who are addicted to this
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