The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1892-02-05
An HISTORIC SUICIDE
The Tragic Death of Padlewiski,
the Russian Fugitive.
THE MURDERER OF sBLIVERSTOFF.

The Man Who Escaped the Clever
Agents of Russia's Secret Police.
After He Had Assassinated Their
Chief, Died by His Own Hand in
Little Texas Town.
NEW YORK, JAN 29.-The Sun this
morning publishes long article in
which1t says that Stanislaas Padlewisli,
who on Dec IS, 1890, murdered in the
Hotel De Babe, at Paris. General Mich
ael De Seliverstoff. chief of the Russia
secret police of that city, lies buried in
suicides grave in the potter's field at
San Antonio, Tex. The Suns story de-
tails Padlewiski's act of nihilistic ven
geance, the plots that preceded and pro-
voked it, the escape of the assassin from
Paris by the help of two newspaper
men, his concealment by students in
New York city and his suicide, as it is
called, in Texas, victim of poverty
and of terrors that may or may not
have been terrors of the imagination
only.
Padiewiski's Escape from Paris.
The lifework and death of General
SeliverstoH are matters of his history.
The escape from Paris of Padlewiski,
through the aid of DIR. Labruyere, Nine.
Due Quercy and M. and Nine. Gregoire,
has also been fully detailed. DR.. La
bruyere accompanied the assassin to
Trieste, where he left him. From there
Padlewiski made his way to England.
where he took passage ON the Etruria,
and arrived in New York on Feb. Is,
1891. Here Padlewiski was cared for by
socialistic agitators. He was known as
Otto Heller, under which name he had
registered on the steamship. He was
taken to a house on Fifteenth street,
where he remained in seclusion for some
time, and until the agents of the Rus
sian and French police got close ON his
track. When this became known he
was hurried to a small town in New
Jersey. Here he remained concealed
until March d. when he was put aboard
a steamer for Texas.
Worked as a Farm Laborer
He carried with him letter of intro
duction to some persons who lived in
San Antonio. In this letter he was re-
ferred to as Otto Hauser, but the San
Antonio people never knew that he was
the noted and hunted assassin Paddle
wiski. The San Antonio friends secured
for Hauser a place as farm hand in
the employ of man named Schroeder,
near Salem, Bexar county, Tex. He
worked here for two months. and after
that secured employment in various
places near San Antonio, but finally he
could get nothing to do and he seemed
to be at the end of his recources. He
was expecting registered letter all the
time towards the close of his life, but it
never came.
In the last three days of his life he
seemed to be in an utterly hopeless con-
dition. He showed signs of great fear
when on the street, and there are indi-
cations that he was losing his reason or
had made a startling discovery of some
kind which had terrorized him
AT dawn of the morning of Oct. 2S,
1891, his body was found in Maverick
park. A small pistol lay within the
outstretched hand and there was a bull
let hole nearly in the centre of his fore
head, which had caused his DEATH He
was buried i'll pauper's grave in San
Antonio, and it was not known in this
city by those who had befriemded him
what his fate had been until some time
afterward. They now make public the
fate of the noted criminal, which has
for so long time been matter of con-
lecture.