The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-09-22

His friends had the ear of the cZar
and he was set at liberty. The "a
hours he had spent at the dreaded
prison at SchlusseIburg had aged
him twice as many years; another
IL hours and there would proba bly,
have been no Sergei Ratmanoff to
set free. They had him placed in
water that reached up to his chin,
and all the time he had had to
stand upright or die by drowning
Ratmanoff left the Schlusselburg a
grey headed old man.
The terrorist party boasts sys-
tenn excelled only by that of the
Japanese secret Service, on which
it is said to have recently been re-
modelled. It's members have : no
names-Only numbers; they work
in pairs, receiving messages from
headquarters, that reach them with
a mysterious absence of formality,
and whose bearers prove by the
showing of a secret badge that they
are genuinely in the service of the
party. There are only 10 of these
messengers in all Russia, each of
whom, by the doing of some desper-
ate deed has proved his mettle as
well as his fidelity to the party.
Occasionally such a messenger
disappears. In most cases he has
killed hmself-in one or two in
stances herself-rather than suffer
arrest and the betrayal of the err
rand with which he was intrusted.
Thus persisted Karin Mylius, a
beautiful Finnish lady, who, on dis
covering that a Gordon of police
was surrounding the "datcha," or
wooden summer cottage, in which
she was living, actually set fire to
it with her own hands and, after
burning her papers and other in
eliminating documents, threw her
self into the flames and died a
martyrs death.
The usual method of the Terror
list section of the socialist revolu.
tionary group, the so-called militant
| organization, is to carry on the
war by means of high explosives.
Though almost every member of
the section is familiar with the re-
volver, the bomb is still it's favorite
weapon; and though factory"
after factory" has been discover
ed, as soon as one is CLOSED" a
new one springs up to take its place
most often several new ones.
Quite recently such a Factory"
was discovered in the village of
Veira, almost at the very gates Of
the cars palace at Tsarskoe-Selo.
| Occasionally a member will trust
to his own ingenuity to effect the
purpose of the organization. Thus
a man who gave his name as Vas
sill Navrimoff executed the SEN
tence passed by the terrorists on
Captain Leontieff, who played SO
brutal a part in the suppression of
the recent riots at Batoum.
Navrimoff. a barber by trade, set
out for Batoum and speedily discov.
cred which hairdresser's shop his
victim was in the habit of patroniz-
ing. He had not to wait long before
he secured a place as an assistant
in this very shop. Not many days
after his engagement he found: his
opportunity. Captain Leontieff, al
unsuspectingly, ordered the terror
list barber to shave him. He was
lathered in the usual fashion, the
razor was carefully stropped, AND
then Navrimoff began on the Off
GERS near cheek. The customer
settled down comfortably in the
seat of execution and the supposed
BARRIERS assistant cut his throa
from ear to ear. Leontieff bled t
death, and, while the master bar
ber's cries were filing the shol
with a gaping crowd of curious eau
casians, the instrument of the revo
lutionists had made good his es
cape, and Is now in all probabilit.
planning a second and perhaps ever
more desperate act Of retaliation.
Another and scarcely less terri
: BILE mode of execution is that mete
out to the official spies who max
their way into the council of tn
terrorists themselves. These crime
are scarcely ever made public an
little is heard of them in the ou
T side world.
One case has become notorious
that of young Ivan Paznatovsk
whose father, a prominent polio
official in Saratoff, was slain by
revolutionary bullet in Septembe
: last. Ivan Paznatovski, swearin
r to avenge his fathers death, too
q another name and, Disgusting hin
self in the shabby uniform of poo
e medical student, assiduously sougf
i the society of the socialist revolt
e tionary group. He had already COZ
l. fided his purpose to the police a
thorities.
n Posing as an ardent champion
- liberty and asking to be intruste