A SINGULAR CRIME.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1174, 29 August 1884, Page 3

A SINGULAR CRIME.

I at the Mosoowpiourt/apbiw jthat ol Mift i kjpzunn. a3i«i»s^lVh'i l pecUliii'it.h>itaahort itcoulAVoflt.iipiy J? the. bp’Hffi dbijfljbl parents, was left an oiqfliaA at tWa- aLUII; within fortune of hn’f a million of roubles. 1 The ludv their-living;,, with her as as her goveiness, a M'tlme. Bulagb,. had,a grpatinflu-mco over Mie girl, and eanahiued. to leibie with bei, and undertook the'administration of her fortune. This - fortune the wily Bnlaob resolvsrj tq'ap irqpriatj, pnd toattahrthis purpose 'h's kept Anna shut up a single room during the eoaco of 20 ’yeitr% never letfino anyone go near her, but her own paid subordinates and a Passion priest, who » ppears to have been the sou I of the intrigue. The oontiiiing of Anna of course was arrived at gradually. Bulach and the priest pr. su ided the girl, who was a p'ttlo prono-r.o religiousJexalt»tion,tli! t she had better enter some monas’ory, to which she could subsequently leave her fortune instead of wasting icon “ worldly follies.” But Anna, being then 15 and fond of dancing and novels, refused, and gave hoi self up to dreams of romance and love. Bulach waited some time, and then proposed to the girl to marry a man who was repugnant t* her. Anna re fusing to obey this, the Bulach coaxed her into accompanying herinto the toward Ejeff where she opened a small day-school, and there site succeeded in confining her pupil, to a single chamber where the unhappy girl passed - 20 years of her life, seeing ,no one but her tormciuor'; who-with the,most- hocribletbreals, made her sign draft after draft, making over to Biilach'and the-priest groat sums of money. Mija M-x.nuiu, from a pretty, clever, vjvacipus girl fuil’of-promise, soo'n bpcaino a" Hstless, apathetic idiot; entirely subservient 'to tfie wretch: who had taken such' power over her mind. She was iil-fe I,clothed in rags, her room n»ver aired, in sliort everything done to drive her out of her mind. At last a distant relation of Mi«s Mazo din made inquires, and after years .of search at. last found the unfortunate girl in the most pitiable state, both of mind an! body, having been dispossessed of every penny of her fortune an 1 hopelessly insane. The detars of this affair are so revolting as to 1 e almost inqrediide. Xinory.witnesses appotred against Bniach,who,is seems spent halt the fortune in hush-money. Her victim lias Ik-oii removed to an asylum for the in- 1 sane, but no hope is entertained of her recovery. She is now 40, and-cveiy vestage i of her former beauty has. been efface I by noglroS'and ilbtreatiaeut. Some remnants o' her fortune have been recovered from Bulach’s clutches, but the balk of it has - b-en too surcessfuily disposed of to be discovered, and will no doubt ultimately go to . charm the existence of (hat woman'in her Siberian solitude, or to bo enjoyo Iby her 1 children, who have made them-olves 1 brilliint positions entirely unattaehabl* in ] in their r spoliability. The trial lasted , live days. It was with the greatest trouble Babich canal be di f udel from the mob.