A Terrible Vendetta.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 226, 27 August 1883, Page 3

A Terrible Vendetta.

— ; "* .*;■ The "following despatch was received from Chicago, dune 22ad, from Reeds Station; 'Pennsylvania, and is vouched for as authentic:— Alex. Setfuloff, a young Toby «lied yesterday; Before death he made a confession. It appeared that his sister, a young married woman-,' was betrayed by a son of a man named Romanoff, prefect of the district m which Semiloff , then seven years old and his lather lived. This was m ?." 1858 j and his father made him swear ; to murder all the Romanoff family. The fatter murdered the prefect and entered .•the Crimean war, where he killed two Romanoffs, sons of officers. Ten years later young ' Semiloff and the father

murdered the elder Romanoff's brothea member t)f the Russian legatin at Ficrence. Old Semiloff was executed for this deed, and youn?, Semiloff, after going with a band of robbers for some time returned to his own native town to find all the old Romanoff family gone. Some had been exilfd to Siberia for treason, and had dieJ. The only remaining one had gone to America, Semiloff followed him, searched for him for years, and found him m a mining regibn near here, and mutdered him two years ago. Semiloff gave a description of the spot where the murdered man W»8 buried, and his bones have been dug up with a large knife among them.