The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-04-08

anS aat 81 petersburg, the strength
$50 portdhce OF the latter Will be in
crSaseu a hun1redfold.
VI course. there it is ono +h;,
Watch political refugees in ~. -
tIS, ana another 10 terrorize tbem end
" attempt their lives, and whilo 4bare
%IS Pienty OF people ready to admit ard
oeIleNe the former, hesitation 49, ~
CPeceeQ about giving credence To tbe
. but one has only to recall the
a~IuS fdrheH Times suiG 10 London
oF 1S1letnDer the crOSs-exaFainafion
Sarcn, in order to realize fba4 - -
the klnd in which he was engaged in
MdechinS and c-ounteraetinr fha nlot
lnsS OF the Clan-Na-Gael. and az 49,
Irish nationalist sooietias IN
eFltdDly leads TO the emplovmenf -
S4tIa ieSal and ever criminal methods
= Is merely necessary to point o1tf tba+
- men employed as secret smissaries
IT, as rule as INSCRIPTIONS as
Of are DOld, and that any qualms
cossSclenee which thew miob+
lei ABOUT resorting even to murder
Moulu De set at rest by the beliar
Cnal tney are dealing with the eneroise
VI Ihelr country, with peonla hevond
inc pale or their law, with individuaIs
N Iact, whom they would as Ennlcvaes
u the government be entitled to shoot
~ eAtfeme cases, if still in their own
oounlry- A Russian police agent. vho
oecceeus IN bringing about the death
VI Sonfe more or less notorious nibiIjsf
VINO mas taken refuge in the United
States certainly does not dream for one
HIoIheht that he has perpetrated any
crime, or done anything else than a
piece OF good and loyal service ia his
government and to his sovereign. Thus
baron Irlscelh. who was at the head
oI mat Corsican corps of the paIace
RoIce that watched over the safety of
NdpoIeon III. boldly admits in hia
ptDilShed "reminiscences that he ca1fsad
one of his agents. named Rumini -
IoIoVS TO London an Italian of the
name or Zambo, implicated in a MAJ
zlnLSt conspiracy toEmUrder the French
emperor, and that Rumini. bv his
VGflsceln,s) orders. stabbed the con-
splrator in the back to the heart. the
poey OF Zambo being subsequently
round IN the Thames. This was one of
I'VE analogous knifings perpetrated by
the baron n by his agents. upon no
liticaI conspirators who soueht the lie
OF MS master, the Emperor Napoleon
only a few years ago the Swiss autaoT-
ltles expelled from their country a Ger
mar asecret police agent, who. in his
edgefneSS to induce German political.
refugees TO perpetrate some ~offsnse.
that would bring them within the reach
OF the extradition treaty, had rendered
himself guilty Of crime. while it is ONLY
neceSsary TO refer TO the celebrated
1rlaI OF the former chief of the kaiser's
Paidce police, the infamous Baron
Iausch. in order to convince oneself
mat when engaged in secret service
men OF his type do not hesitate at for
gerry Or perjury.
Inc Chinese physician. DR.. Sun Vat
Sen, a duly n~aturalized British citi-
zen, the graduate of an American mi
Verslty and a Christian, was Swallowed
every hour after his three months STAY
IN TINS country by four emissaries of
me hlnes government, seeking an
opportunity to assassinate him in con-
sequence OF a leading part which he
mas taken in the reform movement AT
FeKln' and when subsequently he
London he was literally
Whlsked off of one of the most FASH /
Ionable thoroughfares of London in
broad daylight without leaving anv
trace OF his whereabouts. 1t was only
by chance that. three weeks later. his |
English friends discovered that he had |
peen captured by the emissarieS of his
government; that he was imprisoned
in the Chinese embassy in London. and |
n a the envoy had made ARRANGEMENTS
Tor his being secretly shipped back to |
CHINA, closely confined in the hold of
one OF the steamers of the Glen line. |
which is heavily subsidized by the
Pekin government. 1t required the
most peremptory and vigorous action
the part of Lord Salisbury to secure
the immediate release of the doctor,
who has again been lost to sight for
about two years, and has probably once
more fallen into the hands of his enc
mics. Sardou. when he wrote "Fe-
was severely chided by some
critics for presenting it as a possibility;
his hero when wanted by the
Russian police could be KIDNAPPED
abroad and secretly deported to St.
Petersburg. The story of the Chinese
just quoted shows that the great
playwright was guilty of no
.eXaggeration in the matter, and there
Is every reason TO believe that the in
in question is by nc means an
one. There are other cases
Of people who have been spirit
away from Paris to st. Petersburg,
sometimes on board steam launches
the Seine. to HaVre, sometimes
by rail under the influence Of drugs or
under restraint as alleged lunatics.
From London scores of Russian con-
spirators rave been kidnapped in the
anne way as DR.. Sun and shipped off
" LN4Cd Oi DOdA0 A0GLONlbC 6IlDS, dIIGI i
spending the time intervening between
their capture and their embarkation at
the headquarters of the cars detec-
in the British metropolis. Who
knows, indeed, that Russian c~onspira-
lave not been Shanghaied in New
York and other seaport cities of the
United States by Muscoyite govern
nent agents and placed or Russian
men Of war or ever upon liners sailing
or Russian ports? In nine cases out
IF ten no one would be the wiser, and +
should the authorities here become
aware of the kidnapping and of the re-
nOval of the person from this country
his will, their disposition would
be to keep the matter quiet in order
% avoid international complications.
Truth is often stranger than fiction.
one need only think of the strange
adopted even by American Of
icial and private detectives to secure
bona fide criminals who have sought
'efuge in countries with which there
ire no extradition treaties, in order to
'orm an idea Of the many eXtraordi-
dramas and eve tragedies, most-
V unwritten. that are constantly TAX
ng place among the foreign-born resi-
Tents Of the United States-Ex-At-
.achee in St. Louis Globe-DemOcrat.
Mural Decorations.
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