Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-10-02
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!: MAN HUNTING; ;
/! By Walter H. FarIelgh
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The English government had been
appealed to by Russia to make Eng
land too hot to hold the nihilists who
were Matching plots against the life OF
the czar. and Detective Frazer had
been employed to take the preliminary
steps, He was to locate the center
and spot the individuals comprising It,
and when all was ready he would call
for assistance and draw a full net
Frazer was the right man in the right
place. He was human bloodhound
by instinct. He was without mercy
or pity for a criminal. He was ambi.
tious, Jealous and untiring. If any
! public officer in London could locate
the bloodthirsty theorists who were
| causing the czar SO much anxiety, II
was Frazer. He was man of won
derful intuition, and he was trained in
the art Of running down shadows till
| he found them, flesh and blood.
The government did not let it be-
come publicly known that 1t was max
| ing a move against the refugee con-
| spirators, and Frazer took care that
no one should know of his mission. He
went on a still hunt for three months,
and during that time he covered every
district in London and became famil-
lar with every suburb. Luck and in
tuition guided him Alright. One night
he called In the aid Of the police and
made a descent on a house, bagging
eight of the men he wanted. The pa
counterfeiters, for the papers were not
told of the bombs, internal machines
and reasonable literature captured
with them.
There We're ten nihilists In the group,
and Frazer had secured but eight of
them. The eight were given up to
Russia to become Siberian exiles, but
the other two were left behind to
avenge them. That they would seek
his death Frazer fully realized and
prepared himself for the struggle. If
they had to do with a crafty, aggres-
siye man who knew no fear, he had to
do with two cunning, vindictive men
who had sworn to take his life and
would dare everything to accomplish
their object. Their identity was un-
Of the country while he was working
up his case, while it was more than
probable that they knew him by sight.
They also had the advantage Of hav-
ing friends among the criminal classes
who would aid them in various ways.
Having concluded his labors for the
English government, the English gov
ernment wanted nothing more Of De-
tective Frazer. Were 1t known that he
had received orders from the cabinet
there was no telling what public build
ing might be blown up in revenge. An
internal machine in the house of par
lament or bomb thrown through q
window of Somerset House would
awaken all England in an hour, and
questions might be asked that the gov
ernment would find 1t embarrassing to
answer.
While England and Russia have long
been ON the most friendly terms, there
are plenty of Englishmen, and many
of them people of influence, who sym
pathize with the struggle for freedom
in Russia and argue that the cars OBJ
stinacy has driven his subjects to
adopt extreme measures. The govern
ment would have been glad to hear
that Frazer was going off to Australia
or America for long vacation, and II
SO limited, but he refused to go. He
knew he had been marked down by the
two nihilists, and pride prevented him
from running away. While they hunt
ed for him he would hunt for them. 1t
should be battle to the death.
He made an immediate move, and
perhaps 1t was with a feeling of ex-
ultation that he discovered that the
enemy was just as prompt. He was
in low dancehouse in disguise when
the point of knife thrust at his heart
was buried in the memorandum book
in his pocket, and the would be assas-
sin got away. Frazer was not injured.
but his nerves were bit shaken. In
leaving the street behind him a brick,
dropped from third story window,
missed his head by an inch. The next
day he called other officers to his aid
and raided a house of doubtful charac-
ter, but Of all the persons pulled in
none was detained beyond a day.
From that day on, for months and
months, Frazer was hunting over Lon
don. He was never Frazer as his COM
rades knew him. He had dozen diff
ferent DISCUSSES, and if he was a ''toft''
one day he was costermonger the
next. Here and there he picked up q
clew until it came to pass that he
knew the lodgings of his foes and
would have recognized their faces on
the street. Then they suddenly dis
appeared, and within a week they had
taken leaf out of his book and adopt
ed DISCUSSES. A seeming mendicant ac-
costed him one day and sought to stab
him in the back AS he walked the
streets one night a bullet whizzed by
his head. A box was left at his lodg-
ings which proved to be an internal
machine, and in the crowd at the en-
trance Of theater an attempt was
made to assassinate him.
1t was a game Of life and death
well played, but though the detective
realized that the odds were against
him he would not give up. He shifted
his lodgings, had the press announce
that he had left England and went into
the slums as an evangelist. After two
weeks he spotted one of his men, but
before he could make move he was
assaulted and laid up for fortnight.
He was traced to his new lodgings,
and bomb was used to blow out the
front of the house.
He was determined to give the nihil-
ssts no rest until he had them IN. limpo,
and ON the other hand a new center
appeared and solemn oaths were taken
to run Frazer to his death before car
rying out any other work. He was
warned by anonymous letters Of what
was being done and what was inevita-
BILE unless he drew off, but each new