The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-13
Copyright)

from America There
.7o reasons for this-one the fact
...- america has little use for them
,-ser that the new car has made
s.z mind to follow the example set
~aw York by Goff-to relieve the
,..s to some extent Of police oppres-
- The cars job was even bigger
.A.- Gons. His predecessors have
trr- up a body more brutal more cor
-. more detestable in every way. than
r.-,rsnv could ever create. What they
...o-rt TO in Russia will be told further
~ What they amount to in America
d. every whit as interesting.
:. is somewhat absurd that they
sr,,i,5 amount to anything in America.
vrs idea that the Russian autbcrat
should be able to extend his autocracy
in ever So small measure into Uncle
Sans free domain is unpleasant But
that at least one branch of the Russian
-onee systematic pouucal-has been
rsrrasented here with good deal of
sfreneth that has not been denied by any
or- VINO knows. Curiously enough 1t is
me of the things about which Supt.
r,.rres-vhose magnificent vindlcation
~ arain marked him as the greatest
,,ure officer in the world-will say alb
so-ute.y nothing. That OF itself is sig
,incent The superintendent has way
If talking freely about things which
are not important
The strength Of the Russian secret
rou.e in america has ebbed and flowed
,,t- he political disturbances Of that
extraordinary country. After every up
haslaI there has been an influx of im-
MIGRANTS who We're not wanted in Rus
with this flood
suspects has come invariably a squad
Of secret police. The Russian detective
has come to America in all kinds of
WAYS Sometimes when some noble has
been mixed up with plots against the
,r~ he has travelled like a prince in
tt. first cabin Of the best steamer In
this connection story has been told
fcr several years about the Offices of
one OF The great steamship companies.
This may be a mere tradition or it may
Be true II is a good story, anyway
one day. when the big steamer sailed
from Liverpool, she had on board none
other than a prince of the bluest Rus
sian blood He Travelled alone with
valet but he travelled maCnihcently. So
far as any one knew he was in the very
highest Standing in St. Petersburg and it
was even whispered among the passengers
that his object IN visiting America was TO,
~ means of fine false promises and other
paaverng, induce certain of the Rus
stan nobility then sojoUrning in the United
States TO return to the land of the white
bear. there to meet such fates as the car
might have planned for them.
H- played nigh in the card room, and he
drank freely of champagne. Early in the
voyage he became acquainted with a
handsome man of distinguished appear
anes. The two seemed to conceive a
great and sudden liking for each other
Tho stranger was particularly frank and
oGtsr0Eeu, apparently he was anything
but my .erious although no one seemed
70 know anything about him. HIS ma
t0uaiity was indefinite, although he help-
e5 along speculation concerning it by de-
c.arug that he had visited every country
IN Europe except Russia, and could speak
every language of Europe except Rus
san He was heard to remark in the cara
room that he could appreciate the high
breeding and education of the Russian
nobility; that he had great respect for the
magnificent natural resources of that
great country; that he admired her army
and regarded her navy with wonder; but
tEa. be could neither sympathze with nor
admire the Russian political plan or police
system The friendship between the two
iaen rpened rapidly even for shipboard
affair by the time the voyage had APP
preached within one day of its end
they were nseparable. That last day they
We're continually in each others COM
p2uy In the card room, and the prince
crank heavily.
When the passengers landed, several
remarked the absence from the deck of
the Russian prince and his friend. There
was nothing especially notable in the
fdct that he was not to be seen, however
and no search was made for him
-Four or five weeks later, the cable
brought news from st. Petersburg OF the
life sentence to Siberia, of this same
Thor, q gained
circulation in the office of the steamship
company that the Russian prince hau
never landed, that his shipboard friend
was member Of the secret political po-
nee That one glass of that last day VINE
had been drugged and that the uncon-
SolOds nobleman had been locked IN ms
caon from the time the steamer landed
nHtI she sailed away again. Color was
gwen 20 this suppositiOn by the fact that
me captain of the ship, known to be Il
poor man. had resigned and retired soon
eller This voyage, in comforlaDle CT
cumstances
But the Russian detective does not
always deal with princes. Sometimes he
travels in the steerage to watch mere
peasants and moujicks. No game is too
small for the car to shoot at. Cases are
Inscribed in the big colony of exiled Rus
sans in New York where a man or wo-
man coming to this country from Russia
hf-NNNAt~e'
weeks after landing. One of these re-
sA-ed unhappily for the Russian police
man IN Buffalo. He had persistently pur-
sued poor Polish Jew, who to this day
s"ears that he had never done anything
- offend the Russian government until
ne suspect moved from New York to
6lItalo in order to be rid Of him
h9l even that did net shake him OIL
~ lact it was in Buffalo that he took
..'s most active step. One day, while the
Inspect was walking quietly along the
street the detective stopped him and,
whipping out a great parliament docu-
oeht with big red seal dangling from
0y string, informed the frightened
~" that he would have to 90 back to
russia to stand trial for ''conspiring
ls&'ast the Car" Such is the terror and
'E' issiNeHCss inspired in the breasts OF
'gse poor people by the police that the
,'t-A would probably have yielded up his
,'' ~ Quietly had not an American po-
..7 officer who witnessed the affair. in
'3osel in his behalf The Buffalo news
"per5 had good deal to say about the
'ei AZ the time, and l believe that the
f,1 olAcer was forced to leave Buffalo.