DEATH OF A FINNISH NOBLE.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 91, 10 January 1908, Page 4

DEATH OF A FINNISH NOBLE.

~; , FEAR OF SISCRET AGENTS. : . New facts which'havo',; come to . light considerably deepen -t!ie.'J'm : sst-ery surrounding . -Jho tragic 'deafllf'of Mi''.* Henrik Borgstrom in a gunmakers' shop in St. James's Street, • ■I'jccatHily-last—ntmtMr;-—-Mr. Borgstrom, it i.VjfiUjbo (3mpiSibefpd ; 'i Vi;as selecting a revolver, tan|lj whj(o .'baek was turned . into the weapon aiid i'mmediaTely "aTter'wards fell to the floor shot through tho.head^''expiring about ten 'minntesii&tbr.hw.'afb-.cj • Mri noble, and , had take.n an active, part in tho political drama'ofiiii Co'iinti*)'!drfr'ihg its more recent troublous history, and r it is stated that'ho i -lived_ iii; daily d)'eatl of,a. number of Secret Service agents,'' w.ha h'a'believed had for somo .tinio bccjji i dogging, 1 his' ■ . • Air elaerly." Oriental; scholar residing at . Mitciiain, who for tho past fourteen years . -had;been on terms of'itli'tf greatest friendship with tfevdec&fsecV.gSntlcm'an, stated that Mr. r. -Borgstrom r was. about- 'thirty-five or thirty-six •years <Sf : age. 'Vjffo was an arch-baron, thus ' '.possessing tho rank of ah earl and tho right to uso the titlo of 'Hochritter,' and beforo , tho^Constitution-was. abolished by tho Russian Govflrriajjife.he-twas.ia' member of tho J.']i>Hiish Houso of Nobles. - Owner of. Large Estates,..... *' I' "Ho.' waS - extromely: wealthy. On tho , death, somo years ago, of his grandfather, (nievof fcho leadiiig'sliipowiiers ana merchants -of' Finland, Mr. Borgstrom inherited his business and an enormous, estato comprising . _abojit. country houses j' chief of Park, near - Helsingfors—and 'a mansion at Holsingfors. ~,All this;,.propprty,-,hp\vovpr, ho disposed of •shortly afterwards, under a forced sale, ownw to tho-ipe'rsocutionsi-of the Russian political •"agents. ■ "His father diet! wllo'n -Ho was quite young, find after tho funftral"h'is mother, an Eng-lish'lady,-brought lain.to England', whero tho two residtd; until Mrs.' Uorgstrom's death a . -'few years ago. iu Kent, , Mr. Borgstrom was . one of tho most! profoundly (earned men I eVer' know. JEf'd 'was .sufficiently acquainted with Sanscrit to ho 'offered a professional 'post at Holsingfors;' which,, liowovcr, ho de--clined, and could speak: and write practically every literary language',"in Europe. '! "BeforiJ'ioav'iiig Mlt'cham Mr. Borgstrom . camo'to bid " -mo good-bye. Ho was perfectly. .rational.,-.in -.-,lii» .manner, though . somewhat moved at'tho parting, and I can- • inot think! t'liatt his (leilth can have been duo • to anything >biit an accident."