Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-07-01

ornl In Now York, tho Cars Government IA
only too glad to got rid Of such people and
docs not bothor with them unless thoy arc
noted criminals. According to Mr.. Olnr-
ovsky, tho oxtradltion treaty between the
United statcs and Russia docs not cover
political oficnses, 80 It Is difIlcut TO 500 what
the object was for It's passage.
In investigating such subject as tho Rus
alan secret police In Now York, many dim.
oulues are mot with. or course, the police
themselves and tho agents Of tho Russian
Government will not lot anything DO known
10 outsiders, aud tho Russian residents who
are opposed to them are not likely to know
much OF their movements.
The writer, however, has boen abo to ind
out that the regular foroo in Now York mum.
bera about twonty mon, and on special occa-
sIons many more aro employed. These men
nro in charge Of two or throe agents who uro
employed directly by Consul-Goncral
Onroysly. and who report to him. Thoy
meet and report to these ngcuts at a Russian
cufo on Twonty-afth street, between Second
and Third avenues, kept by one Bllof, who ID
also said 10 be connected with tho secret SER
vice. so carefully. howovor, Is tho buaiuoss
manAged by tho chiefs that very few Of tho
spies arc known 10 each othor. and they are
constantly assigned TO watch each other and
report TO tho chiefs as to thoir ialihfulnesa.
The duty OF those spios is TO mix with the
Russian colony aud koop their employers ln-
formed Of all the gossip and now5. Now
arrivals nre carefully watched for and re-
ported on. Special diligence Is shown In
watching men like Loo Hartmann who have
been prominent in the Russian revolutionary
movement aud mon like Editor Goldonborg,
OF Free Russia, who aro trying to influence
public opinion In America.
Even Americans who are known to DO In
sympathy with tho Russian Liberals arc
looked aiter by the spies OF tho Gar, aud
everything calculated to incline public SYM
pathy toward tho revolutlonlsts Is stronu-
ously opposed.
When tho play Darkest Russia" was
about to DO produced at the Union square
Theatre some months ago tho managers wore
approached several times. and money was
offered to Suppress 1t, This Ia only ono in
stanco Of how thorough tho system is.
u IL snld, too, that fnl list OF tho mem.
bers Of the American Society OF Friends OF
Russian Freedom 10 In tho hands OF the con-
sui, although this is society composed al
most entirely of literary persons who have a
merely sentimental sympathy with the cause
of the Russian people, and who devote their
energies to nm agitation for the abrogtion OF
the llussian extrndltion treaty.
A fayorite method OF those spies Ia to dis
credit prominent Russians in this and other
countries by trying TO induce them TO cnp,ge
IN crimes against tho laws OF that country.
Cn,tnterf,ttint, Ia thu crl n,n t.annrl1lv ,ho.,,
and when the victim IL ensnarcd, II the plot
"a euccessful, tho spy then turnes statoa owl
dcneo by informing tho authorities. At the
came time onro is taken that the fact that
tho counterioiter IS prominent Russian
reSolutlonist shall be made public, and thus
discrodit Is thrown upon the revolutionary
movement
Such a plot was exposed about year ago
by Professor Isaac Gourowlch, now OF Chicago
In his paper Progress, published in tho Rus