ROMANCE OF A RUSSIAN LADY.

Colonist, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11677, 12 July 1906, Page 4

ROMANCE OF A RUSSIAN LADY.

Some time ago a handsome woman, evidently of fairly high station in life, was found dead in a London hotel and the case 1 was a three or 1 four days' sensation, owing to the mystery surrounding it. The body was identified by a woman, but the person supposed to be dead telegraphed from Paris to say that she 1 was very much alive, and after strenuous investigation had failed to clear up the mystery, tie body was buried as that of an unknown, It now appears that the dead wo man's name was Helene de K rebel, and that she was 37 years of age, 1 and belonged to a good Russian family. About three years ago her deep interest in the cause of Russiaa liberty led her to join the Revolutionary party. Unfortnately, she fell in love with one of the lead ers of the party, who lived with her for a while and then deserted her for another woman. Helene de Krebel, maddened with jealousy, vowed vengeance en her betrayer and all his order, and satisfied her vow by selling secrets of the party to the Russian police. This happened .about two years ago. She immediately fled to the United States, but she had not been there long before she

found that she had been condemned to death by her former comrades in the Nihilist movement. Panicstricken, she left America for England, went from England to b ranee, back from France to America, and then back to France again, a "female Orestes pursued by the furies of Terror as well as those of remorse. In Paris she lived very quietly lintil throe months' ago; wben the receipt of a letter with a Russian stamp told her that her retreat was discovered. She made one last bid for life by leaving that afternoon for London, her intention being, it is believed, to get away to Buenos Ay res and escape from her pursuers. What happened in London can only be conjectured. Evidently she missed the boat she had hoped to catch, and her courage was not, equal to the ordeal of waiting, in England for the next boat. A day or two after she reached London she took poison, driven to suicide by tho ffear of the fate Which she certainly woiiid have met with had she been found by the emissaries of the Russian revolutionary party.