The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-12-25
A RASCiL EXTRAORDINARY.
Plausible Josef Hendigery OF Warsaw and
His Astonishing Career.

| RASCiL EXTRAORDINARY.
Plausible Josef Hendigery OF Warsaw and
| His Astonishing Career.
Josef Hendigery. who was sentenced to
| penal scrvitude in Cracow about two weeks
| ago. was criminal such as oven the Russian
| system Of espionage has seldom developed.
Although hut twenty-five years old. we'll
| educated. Intelligent. respected. and with all
| the most prosperous ways OF civilians
career. he abandoned himself to every con-
vcnicnt form OF profitable rascality. and
eventually plotted general slaughter OF his
best friends on q scale not equaled since the
night OF st. Bartholomew.
Hcnligcry is the son Of a high police official
in Warsaw. After receiving n good education
and acquainting himself with English. Ger
man. and French. he crossed tho border into
Galicia about two years ago. travelled from
city to city under tho patronage OF the highest
families. whose confidence he won through
forged letters Of introduction. and finally
brought up in Lemberg. where he established
himself for some time as an embryo college
professor. 80 clever were his methods that he
imposed upon the learned men OF LemDerg
the most exalted notions of his scholarship.
with exceptional success. and eventually So
cured the hand Of the belle OF the city. the
COUNT stansaHs si"ncSynssi Of cracow ''
shortly after his marriage Hendigery went
to st. r"terseurg on mysterious Gus, mission la
berg. and then with his wife went to visit her
relatives in Crac NV. Negotiating himself In
Poland and hatred of l!ussia. All this. how
ever. was cut short by his arrest as bogus
deaths OF scores OF Innocent men and women.
not excepting his wiies father and uncle.
to ST. Petersburg was made for The purpose OF
combating the details Of his plot He went
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Third section. to whom he unfolded a blood
swbsS OF ssn
russian oiiicia quarters. In Austrian Galieia.
he said. plot had been Matched by six Polish
Lemberg e.: against the lie OF the Gar The
house i'll which these conspirators had met.
they Intended to employ. he described with re-
markable precision and II, wealth Of detail
Of misGivinG in tno minds Of his, hearers.
Among the so.called assassins no included the
uncle and the father Of his young wife.
What Is your motive? inquired Gen. Sche-
:HMay motive" exelaime ed Hendlger,: why.
hope Tor Tie Polish People lies in complete
reconciliation with their Russian brothers. 1
am actuated by motives not only Of patriotism.
but also Of common humanity. II this horri
Bile plot should succeed 2 stain would rest on
would not wash 1t away. I am poor man.
however. and therefore 1t is scarcely more
Poland"
Gen schebeko accented this state msnt with
Q grain Of salt. Nevertheless he drew up .
sisned his assumed name He then in structed
movement in the developIn ent OF the. conspir-
aCy. and report In cipher to the Third Section.
thrifty Schsbsko as the travelling expenses
between st. Petersburg and Lemberc. The
to b. Of he
Hsndiserys last words Of advice were:
E you haze ssIsn t the
one may ever Iearn OF their fate"
n Saysiy $500: After proSsry astatns Tie
FASTENED back to Galicia to hatch up the |
ss czs s tozer s had AMT
Guilty in finding nun to take the dynamite
tas ss Sa2asr OF s
and dutiabe wares into the neighb9rIng en-
Sp ,s ss sssH. x
enterprss Without Sft tie sishtest hssitaon '
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diesry was successful, the Russian authori-
who had undertaken the transportation.
to tho Goons ABOUT the
enterprise. and thus conviAced him OF the eli-
tire correctness Of Hendigerys statement.
his country and his sovereign that no began to
coddle Hendigery as one OF the rising stars Of
the Third Section. and g na Abeies Sioo out
keep the st. Petersburg officials we'll informed
Of the movements OF the conspirators. ospe-
cially OF the whereabouts Of tho Internal ma
rhine. which Hendigery told him had been put
IN in the form OF mantle by an Austrian
After the Coloners departure Hendigery re-
large amount Of dynamite. so that tho alan-
hs had told tho head Of til. Third Section. For
names. made ella borats REPRESENTATIONS. and
himself in such network OF lies
md contradictions, among the hundred or
police came to the conclusion no might better
30 imprisoned until the mystery Of his Pur-
poses was solved. Shortly afterward the Rus
,r Internal machine. made INQUIRIES Of the au.
horities in GraGoW. and the whole story OF
T sbs 5sysse sscoD
,een active ann nG the suspects living on kus.
.r IRE and crowded into the citadel at War.
to Siberia, Others had disap.
reared. and have not since been heard Of
'ince the collapse Of the plot not a few OF the
The fisI III al. which. beaan In the Lsmberg
criminal Court on Nov. "a. and was concluded
he first OF this month. Was attended BY
ilndreds waited from morning until night at
he Court House to hear the last words of the
'rocsedings and the court room was hlled to
,sssss Hs ss M's's sfds few month:
las been broken down by the revelations 81
rs iniquity and is not expected to live until