Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1891 — SHOT IN THE DARK. [ARTICLE]

SHOT IN THE DARK.

The Bulgarian Minister of Finance Assassinated. Shot Down While Entering His Official -—V- Residence—No Motive for thg Awful Crime, A dispatch from Sofia, Bulgaria, says: At 8 o’clock on the evening of the 27th, while Premier Stambuloff and M. Baltcheff, Minister of Finance, who had been, walking together, were about to enter their official residences, which adj _ each other, a man suddenly confront“ hem with a revolver and fired three shots point blank at M. Batcheff, who fell dead A crowd immediately colleo \ at the scene of the shooting, but the assassin succeeded in making good his escape, owing to the darkness and confusioi. which prevailed among the people. A nunber of witnessed the murder report tha die assassin had three accomplices who assisted him to escape. The shooting of Minister Baltcheff caused the greatest excitement and the police 'are searching the city for all those connected with the terrible deed. No motive has been suggested for the murder of the Minister of Finance, but it is presumed that the conspirators may havs intended to take the life of Premie Stambuloff, but that in the darkness or the evening they mistook M. Baltcheff so the man they had marked as their victim