Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-05-04

ooWn there. DplroYa is ABOUT half
way between st. Petersburg and
Moscow. The country surround
ing is marshy, and the engineers
could make but one statement, and
that to the effect that it was perfectly
impossible to undermine the place.
| They then carried their inquiries
further on. ~ Asret M
However, the officer who was watsh-
ing Ivanof began to suspect him. No
questions had been put to the young
man, but the visit ofthe engineers had
| probably put him on his guard. The
officer had recourse to a subterfuge.
Walking on the line one day with
| Ivanoff he pretended to make a false
step, and fell on his right side.
| Complaining directly Of great pain,
he put his arm in a sling, but
still. remaining on duty, he got
lvanoff to bind up his arm several
times. A few days afterward, having
to send in a report, he begged Ivanoff
to write it for him, as his arm still
disabled him from doing so. Ivanoff
accepted without any suspicious.
Thus the officer had the opportunity
Of comparing the two handwritings
and found cut consequently, both
writings being alike, that Ivanoff was
the real author of the letter sent to
Mouraview few months previously.
A search was Immediately made among
his papers, when clandestine papers
were found, as also plan of the sta
ton. This station belonging to the
tirst-clas ones contains an imperial
salon, and on lvanoff's plan blue
pencil mark was traced from this
salon ending at point marked in the
middle of the railway line. When
lvaHoff was questioned he denied
knowing anything. However, four
names figured among his papers, which
we're afterward found out to belong to
four workmen employed at neigh.
boring mill, Of which certain Mr..
Morozoff is the owner. But upon
inquiries being made at the fabric it
was found out that the four workmen
had disappeared as soon as the news
Of the search on the railway had made
so much commotion at Spirowa.
Colonel Posnawski, who returned
in the meantime, had another search,
haphazard and without any precise
object, as he himself said afterWard.
1t was no longer possible to imagine
but that something wrong was going
on, but the object of the search, that
is to say, the mine itself was wanting,
and what is more, the engineers had
stated that such thing was absolute
ly impracticabls in such a marshy
country. The Colonel nevertheless
went on with his search, and one day
by chance, at some distance from the
station, he discovered the mouth of
large cast iron pipe, from which
issued dirty water. Where could this
pipe possibly lead from From in
quiries made he gathered the infor-
nation that this pipe, not marked on
the plan, led from the station and
that it extended from beneath the
imperial salon 10 the exact spot on the
rails where the imperial carriage must
stop in passing through that station
on its way to Moscow. This discovery
quite COMPOUNDED Ivanoff, who finished
by admitting that there had indeed
been plan to establish a small mine
Of dynamite in this pipe at the exact
spot on the line which was marked on
his plan. He also owned to his ao-
completes beiug the four workmen
who had been employed at MorozOf's
mill, but said he know nothing of their
present whereabouts. Since this dis
eovery the whole line from st. Peters
burg to Moscow, which is 400 miles
long, is being thoroughly inspected.
The fresh discoveries which are be.
ing made every day lead to the belief
that criminal organization of a new
character is being established, not re-
sembling in the least any such at pres.
ent existing. It's cOnspirators, whose
traces are being met with on all sides,
seem TO have created new faction,
working apart from any other. Arrests
OF all kinds are multiplying in the an.
cient capital. / have told you already
that Immediately upon the arrest Of
Slephanowitch, the propagation Of Nj
hilist papers, had followed that Of
Kabassoff, the real author of the mine
in the Sadowa, in which Soukanoff had
worked. Kabassof was found occu.
plying superb apartments, consisting
Of eight rooms, in which he lived un-
der the name Of Bogoyablenski. Being
asked what induced him to remain in
Moscow, where such strict surveil-
lance was being kept by the police, he
simply answered, THE coronation will
take place at Moscow. Moscow, there
fore, is tho place for us-and that is
why | remain here" He was taken
to st. Petersburg, but has since been
brought back to the Moscow prison.
| The celebrated Deutsch has also been
arrested. He is a short, dried up, but
very active looking man. All these
arrests have been made by the aid Of
in fnrmation ohfainad unon Soukanof's