The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-13
SMUGGLED FROM ELLIS ISLAND
REVOLUTTONIST WITH SORE EYES
HELPED TO ESCAPE.
HIS Brother, who Was q Tailor on the
Island, and Fis sister.in.Law. q Laun-
dress There, disappeared the Same
NiEht-Brother Arrested Yesterday.

Island, and ms sisterin-Law, 4 Laun-
dress There, disappeared the Same
N~ight-Brother Arrested Yesterday.
The United States authorities here are
looking for Moische Chmielnioke, who is
in this country In defiance Of the immigra-
ton laws. There are a lot OF bearded men
on the East Side, members Of the Russian
revolutionary bund mostly, who are about
ready 10 take any means, lawful or unlawful,
to see that he stays here.
Moische, they say, become a revolutionist
when a sergeant and a file o. soldiers came
into his little home In the outskirts OF Klein
three years ago and told him that he had
been oonsoripted for the army. Moische
had been married only a year and had q
wife and baby on his hands. They took
him away, cut his hair and made him a
soldier Of the Gar.
They did not ,sehd his regiment to Man
churia. Moische went with 1t to st. Peters
burg, to Riga, to Moscow. 1t wac always
kept in reserve at these plaeee, So 1t had
mostly strikers and revoutionists to face.
The officers Of the regiment, some OF them,
were revolutionists themselves.
Finally Moische's regiment went to
Odessa, There he received word that the
wife and baby were dead. There had been
a famine, the black rye bread had grown
scarce, she was on her way to ask the priest
for help when she fell by the roadside,
faint from weakness. 1t was q cold night.
They we're found dead, mother and child,
the next morning.
The regiment wal still at Odessa when
the Potemkin's crew revolted. Eventually
Moisohe's regiment revolted also n got
whipped in the street fighting He hid
in a cellar for weeks. Ono night revolu-
tionists got him out and put him on an
English ship. He landed al Kusteudji,
in Rumania. With money that he found
in his pocket he bought a passage to Ham
burg and sailed ON tho America for this
city, whore he fzas a brother.
There was some delay, Il seemed, before
he could 90 up to the city. He must have
his eyes examined and 60 to the hospital.
But that did not prevent a joyful meeting
with his brothsr. For Henry Melnik,
who has had a little shop OF the island
and made clothes for the officers there,
is none else than Moisohe Chmielnicke's
elder brother with some Of his name shorn
of.
Henry looked grave when Moische said
he had been detained at the hospital. He
said nothing, but when he vent over to his
Essex street shop that night it was not
long before the news spread through the
bund that another brother had been saved,
but might yet be vent back.
Bad news was not long in coming. Moisohe
had trachoma, and be must go hack to
Hamburg. Soon Melnik appeared among
the attendants, In the hospital, temporarily
assigned, it seemed. His wife then got
a job as laundress, too. All the time nightly
conferences were going on up In the East
Side Of New York.
On the night OF February ~ three persons
left Ellis Island. They were Moische
Chmielnicki and Mr.. and Mrs. Henry J.
Meinik. How they escaped from the hos
pitol or the islAnd is a mystery to this day.
It is, moreover, a mystery that has deeply
troubled Commissioner Watchorn and his
assistants. For it is the first successful
attempt at escape from the hospital, they
say, in the history Of the island. No boat
was missing.
Search has been made for Moische, hut
in vain. There are several members of
the bund who will be surprised il he is
Deputy Marshal Edward Doolin arrested
Melnik yesterday and arraigned him be-
fore Commissioner Shields for examination.
A friend put up $500 bail, and Melnik has
far refused to clear up the mystery,