The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1892-01-29
IN HISTORIC SUICIDE
The Tragic Death Of pailcEiski
tie Russian Fugitive.
THE MURDERER OF srLIvERsTorR.

Tho Man Who Escaped tho Clever
Agents or tsnssIa's secret Pollcv.
Aner lie HAD AsSassInatcd Their
Chief. Died by Hts Own Hand In
d ldttlc Texas Town.
NEW YoRK, Jan. 20. Tho sun this
morning publishes long article III
whichit Gays that stanislaus padlewiski.
who on Dec. lS. 1890, murdered hi the
Hotel De Babe. 1T Paris, General Mich
ael De Seliyersto2, chief Of the Russia
secret police Of that city, lies buried in
suicides grave in tho potser's fold ut
sun Antonio, I'ox. The SUMS story do
tails padiewisli's act Of nihilistic vell-
geance, the plots that preceded aud pre-
yolked Il. the escape Of the assassin from
Paris BY the help Of two newspaper
men, his concealInent by students Ia
New York city and his suicide. as 1t II
called. in Texas, victim OF poverty
and OF terrors that may or may not
have been terrors Of the Imagination
only.
Padicwiski's Escape from Paris.
The lifework and death 81 General
SeliversteH are matters of his history.
The escape from Paris Of Pndlewfsld,
through the aid of DIR. Lahruyere. Nine
Due Luercy and nj. and Nine. Gregoire,
has also been fully detailed. DIR. La
bruyere accompanied the assassin TO
Trieste, where lie left him. From there
padlewislSi made his way To England,
whore he took passage on the Etrurin,
and arrived In New York ON Feb. Is.
1891. Here Padlewish was cared for by
eocialistic agitators. He was known as
Otto Heller, under which name he had
registered on the steamship. lie was
taken to d house on Fifteenth street,
where he remained in seciusion 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 d small town in New
Jersey. Here he remained concealed
until March i, when he was put aboard
q steamer for Texas.
worked as 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 ~ Otto Hauser, but the San
Antonio people never knew that he was
| the noted and hunted assassin Padle-
wisli. The San Antonio friends secured
for Hansen q place as farm hand In
the employ Of man named Schroeder,
near salem, Bexar county. Tex. He
j 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 resources. He
/ was expecting registered letter all the
/ time towards the close of his life, but il
/ never came.
In the last three days of his life he
seemed to be In an utterly hopeless con-
i dition. He showed signs of great fear
when on the street, and there are indi-
| cations that he was losing his reason or
i had made d startling discovery of some
! kind which had terrorized him.
/ At dawn Of the morning OF Oct. 29,
1891, his body was found III Maverick
park. A small pistol lay within the
/ oufBtretched naild and there was a hull
/ let hole nearly Iii the centre of lis fore
head, which hid caused his death. .,IJc
/ was buried III a paupers grave in San
| Antonio, and IL Was not known in this
/ city ID those who hal beffiemded him
what ~ fate had been until some time
| afterward. They now make public The
fate oil the noted criminal, winch has
for SO long Time been matter of con
i lecture.