The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-10-05
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(. MAN HUNTING ;
By Walter II. Farlelgh
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Copyright, 1901, 5g a. S. I;rhoyso,,

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The English government had been
appealed to by Russia to make Bag
land too hot to hold the nihilists wv
were Matching plots against the life q
the car, and Detective Frazer ha,R
been employed to take the preliminary
steps. He MAS to locate the %ceutl"
and spot the individuals comprising it,
and when all was ready he would call
for assistance aud draw a full net
Frazer was the right man III the right
| place. He was & human blOodAound
| by Instinct. He was without mercy
or pity for criminal. He was anbi-
| tious, Jealous and untirmg. III any
| public officer in London could locate
| the bloodthiTsty theorists who were
causing the car so much anxiety, 1t
was Frazer. He Nas n man of Won,
derful intuition, ana 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 it WAS max
| ing a-moye against the refugee con-
| anu IIdLtl AO0h NtlAE libi
no one should know of his mission. He
went on a stiIl hunt for three months,
| and during that time he covered every
| district In London ana became famil-
| lar with every suburb. Luck aud in
| tuition guided him Alright One night
/! he called in the aid of the police and
made descent on a house, bagging
eight of the men he wanted The pa
| pers did not call them nihilists, but
counterfeiters, for the papers We're not
| told of the bombs, internal machines
| and reasonable literature captured
with them
| There were 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 crafty aggres-
| sive man who knew no fear, he had to
| do with two cunning, vindictive men
| who had sworn to take his life and
1 WOuAh hllt GNNl iiAtASs ~ +t'NtAA EAiF'ii
| their object Ther identity was un-
known to him, as they had been out
| 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 hay
ing friends among the criminal classes
| who would aid them in various ways
1 Il la laI, fg.,r "a
/ English government, the English gov
| eminent wanted nothing more OF De
| tective Frazer Were It 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 a bomb thrown through a
window of Somerset House would
awaken all England in an hour, and
| questions might be asked that the gov
eminent 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 it
| 70 limited, but he refused to go. He
knew he had been marked down by the
two nihnists, 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 OK
ultation that he discovered that the
enemy was just as prompt He was
In low danceh0use in disguise when
the point of a knife thrust at his heart
was buried In the memorandum book
III his pocket, and the would be asSas-
sin got away Frazer was not injured,
but bis nerves were a bit shaken. In
leaving the street behind him a brick,
dropped from third story window,
missed his head by an inche The next
nday he. called other officers 70 his aid
1 ana &eu mousse OIL AOuDliuI ttldIdt-
ter, ss all the persons pulled in
none s detained. beyond day.
FROM bhat day on, for months and
monthss razer was hunting over Lon
don. He was never Frazer rs his com
rades knew him lie had a dozen DIFF
ferent DISCUSSES, and II he was ''toft'
one day he was a costernlonger the
next. Here and there he picked up a
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
I appeared, and within q week they had
taken a leaf out Of his book and adopt
ed DISCUSSES. A seeming mcndicant ae-
costed him one day aud sought to stab
him in the back AS he walked the
streets one night bullet whizzed ~
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 a theater an attempt was
made to assassinate him.
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