Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1906-03-29
FATHER GAPON TO SUE.
ANSWERS CHARGES AND SAYS HE
HAS MARRIED DESPITE RULES
OF HIS CHURCH.
he ANSWERS THE CHARGE
Denies He Grated and Sold Out Work
ingmen-Count Witte Gave Him
Permission TO Stay.

ST PETERSBURG. March 90
Father Gapon in frank. open letter to-
day replies to the attacks on his public
and private life, announced that he has
instructed his lawyer, NJ Margolin, to
bring an action for defamation OF char
acter against his detractors and denies
the charge of bCtraying and abandoning
q girl while he was a prison chaplain
Gapon explains that, refusing to fol-
low the rule OF tine orthodox church pro-
hihiting the remarrage of priests, which
he declares drives the clergy to secret
immortality he took to his bosom rs his
wife IA girl whom he loved, and she is
still living with him.
Continuing GaDon declares that of the
$4,000 which Premier Witte gave
through former Commerce Minister Timi-
riaZefT for the restoration of the Gapon
labor organization, he only received
$500 al of which was used to help the
workmen. The remainder was stolen by
Mathushensky, the press agent.
Regarding the charge of gambling at
Monte Carlo with mysterious money
Gapon says: During the bloody uprising
at Moscow | received money for literary
work and while abroad out of simple
curiosity | played for small stakes. \
review of my connection with the work
"
was an agent of the government and
that | labored solely in the interests of
the wOrllmen.'
When he returned to st. Petersburg
Gapon admits that he communicated
with Count Witte. who gave him per-
mission to live here. considering that his
work was constructive and not destruct-
i've
Emperor Nicholas. in receiving a depu-
tation of peasants from IIazan province
today. employed new and stronger
tone. He said nothing about satisfying
their land-hunger and spoke only of the
inviolability OF the property, informing
the peasants that a recurrence of agra
rian disorders and the destruction of
property would not only be punished in
the most severe fashion but the com
munitcs participating in the disorders
would be deprived of the assistance OF
the pea SAINT banks.
The papers continue to be filled with
rumors of Premier Whites resignation
which they say has been offered to the
Emperor, but not acted upon.
Sixteen Corpses Are Found.
Fishermen of Warsaw say they have
found sixteen horribly mutiated corpses
in the River -NiStula, near the citadel.
The rCrpseS were bound together with
| ropes and some of them lacked hands
and feet
The governor general of Iit1lS has de-
ported TO Siberia five employees of Il small
bakery who recently struck.
The Rech says that Prof. Nicholsky,
notorious leader of the Black Hun
bred. has been appointed by Interior
Minister Durnovo to position in the
ministry of the interior at salary of
$1,000.
The Finnish court which is trying the
men who robbed the Russian state bank
here February % getting away with
SD 500 in broad daylight, has asked for
the extradition of the three Russian stu
dents who We're arrested at Stockholm
recently on the charge of having been
concerned in the robbery.
The workmen in the Presnia and lie
fort districts i'll Moscow pronounced
against Il general strike before Easter