The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-01-12

false name. and obtained an audience with Gen.
SchebekO, the head of the terrible Third Section,
to whom he unfOlded blOod-curdling story of
prospective political asSaSsinatiOnS which caused
an unusual sensation in Russian official quarters.
In Austrian Galcia, he said, plot had been
Matched by six Polish editors and many students
and nOblemen of Lemberg against the life of the
Car. The house in which these conspirators
had met, the names of them all, and the methods
which they intended to employ. he described
with remarkable precision and a wealth of de-
tails which sufficed to remove almost every trace
of misgivng i'm the minds of his hearers. Among
the socalled assassins he included the uncle and
the father of his young wife.
what is your motive? " inquired Gen. SChe-
bekO
My motives" exclaimed iiendigery. why.
am a loyal Pole who believes that the only
hope for the Polish people lies in complete re-
Cancellation with their Russian brothers. I am
actuated by motives not only of patriotism, but
also of common humanity. If this horrible plot
should succeed a stain would rest on my people,
and centuries of self-sacrifice would not wash it
away. l am poor man, however, and therefore
it is scarcely more than right that should re-
ceive some slight reward for my services to Rus
STA as we'll as to Poland" Gen. Schebeko accept
less he drew up statement in writing. to which
IIen,ligery signed his assumed name He then
instructed the infOmer to return home. watch
every movement in the development of the con-
spracy and report in cipher to the Third Section.
Fifty dollars was the price stipulated by the
thrifty SchebekO as the travelling expenses be
tween st. Petersburg and Iemberg. The rest of
the money requested by Hendigery was to be
paid after the capture of the conspiratorS Hen
digery's last words of advice were:
LAS soon as you have seized the persons named
by me- Gen. Schebeko. put them out of the way
in such thorough manner that no one may ever
learn of their fate.
All Hendgcry expected 70 profit from this
wholesale slaughter was 10000 paper rubes. or
hardly 5000. After properly agitating the Third
Section. and arranging details as to the payment
of the blood money Hendigery FASTENED back
to Galica to hatch up the semblance of great
dynamite plot against the Gar. Along the Dor
der he had little difficulty in finding man to
take the dynamite over the frontier. Scores OF
men and women each side of the border exc
out livelihood by smuggling emigrants without
passports and dlltiablc wares into the nelGhbOr-
ing empire, and AbeleS. the head OF band OF
SmugglerS. was the individual selected by Hen
digery to play the part of first victim. ADeieS
had not the fainteSt notion that he was being
hired tn Smnggle over dynamite. and undertook
the enterprise without the slightest hesitation.
To obtain Il large quantity of dynamite. how
ever. proved much more difficult task than to
hire a man to smrggle it, and before liendigery
was successful the Russian authorities. annoyed
by the delay. sent Col. MarkgratfSky to Lemberg
to see the cOnspirator who had undertaken the
transportation Abeles. in his comparative in
nocence, talked freely to the Colonel about the
smuggling enterprise. and thus convinced him
of the entire correctness of UendigeryS state
ment The Colonel was so fun Of the idea OF saving
his country and his sovereign that he began to
cOddlc Iiendigery as one of the rising stars OF
the Third Section. and gave Abeles 500 out OF
his own pocket. He charged iiendigery to keep
the ST. Petersburg officials we'll informed of the
movements of the cOnSpirat0rS. especially of the
internal machine. which Hendigery told him had
been put up in the form of mantle by an Aus
trian official.
After the Colonel's departure I,Guiii-@.. -
doubled his efforts to obtain pc: = M
large amount of dynamite so that tiie Quantity
might tally with the size of the lies which he had
told the head of the Third Section. For this
purpose he paid visits. assumed false names.
made elaborate representations and entangled
himself Ill Stlcll Il net Wt'Ik Oh
tons among the hundred or more Of his intended
victims, that the AUSTRIAN police came to the
conclusion he might better be imprisoned until
the mystery of his purposes was solved. Shortly
afterward the Russian police receiving no news
of the dynamite or internal machine made in
uuirieS of the authorities in CracOw, and the
whole story of Hendigery's duplicity was re-
vealed.
Meantime, however, the Third &Hc:ia- H;ld
been active among the suspects living on Rus
sian territories. Scores of persons had been ar
rested and crowded into the citadel at Warsaw.
Some had even been hurried off enthusiastically
to Siberia. Others had disappeared, and have not
since been heard of. Since the collapse of the plot
not a few of the prisoners have been released.
The trial. which began in the lemberg Grim
inal Court on Nov. "a. and was concluded the
first of this month, was attended by crowds from
all parts of Austrian Galicia. Hundreds waited
from morning until night at the Court House to
hear the last words of the proceedings, and the
court room was filled to SufOcatiOn with wit
nesses and friends of witnesses Hendigery's
bride of a few months has been broken down by
the revelations of his iniquity, and is not expect
ed to live until the new year.-N. Y. san.
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