Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1902-10-30

been employed to take the preliminary
stems. He was to locate the center
and spot the individuals comprising it,
aud when all was ready he would call
for assistance and draw a full net.
Frazer was the right man in the right
place lie was human bloodhound
by instinct. He was without mercy
or pity for criminal He was ambi-
tious, jealous and untiring. If any
public OlIic.r in London could locate
the bloodthirsty theorists VINO were
causing the ear SO much anxiety, II
was Frazer He was Il man or Won
derful intuition, and he was trained In
the art Of running down shadows till
he found them, flesh and blood.
Th. government did not let it be-
come publicly known that 1t was max
Ing Il move against the refugee con-
gpirators, 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 famii-
lar with every suburb. Luck and In
tn! ion guided him Alright. One night
lie called In the aid OF the police and
made a descent on house, bagging
eight Of the men lie wanted. The pa
pers did not call them nihilists, but
counterfeiters, for the papers were not
told OF the bombs. Internal machines
and reasonable literature captured
with them.
There were ten nihilsts in the group,
ard 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 ctruggle. II
they had to do with crafty. aggres-
sive man who knew no fear. he had TO
do with two cunalng. yind'ctlve men
who had sworn to take his life and
would dare everything to- accomplish
their object. Their identity was un-
known to him, as they had been out
OF the country while lie was working
up 4his case, while 1t 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 Dc
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 a bomb thrown through a
window OF Somerset House would
awaken all England I'm an hour, and
questions might be asked that the gov
ernment would fnd 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
so limited, but he refused to go. He
knew he had been marked down by tho
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 q feeling Of ex
ultatlou 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 boot:
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 brick,
dropped from 4 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 n dozen diff
ferent DISCUSSES, and IL he was "toft"
one day he was costermonger 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
appeared, and within a week they had
taken leaf out Of his book and adopt
ed DISCUSSES. A seeming mendicant ac-
nOcfn1 10 nd cnn0ht In IN l,
him in the back. AS he walked the
streets one night bullet whizzed by
his head. box was left at his lodg
ings which proved to be an Internal
machine, and in the crowd at the en-
trance Of n 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 a move he was
assaulted and laid up for n 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 nihiI.
| lists no rest until he had them in limbo,
| and on the other hand n new center
appeared and solemn oaths were taken
| to run Frazer 10 his death before car
rying out pny other work. He was
warned by anonymous letters of what
was being done and what was inevita-
| BILE unless he drew off, tut each new
| development only made him the more
| determined. He felt now that it was
losing game on his side, but he would
continue to play 1t to the end.
| In four months Frazer shifted his
| lodgings seven times. During the same
| time he shot and wounded two men
who had sought to corner him, and he
arrested eight or ten suspicious char
actcrs 4 man who had entered his
lodgings at midnight was almost killed
by q blow from a club and another,
gho was surprised in the act of throw
ing bomb through the window, was
flung into the gutter and had his leg
broken At his last shift of lodgings
Frazer moved clear across London and
assumed the disguise of tramp. For
q week he heard nothing from his foes,
but II they had dropped him he had
not done with them. He had subordi-
mates who were picking up threads for
| him nc he rested. One afternoon, as