The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-04-09
TERRIBLE REVENGE.
Assassins Who Have Followed VIC
Tins for Years to Do Murder.
-AnSNers.l

A number Of miners in a South Wales
collery had a very narrow escape from
drowning a few years ago. An old
working was tapped, and tons of water
flooded the lower galleries A man
| named Sellers, who was working In the
end stall, was caught by the food and
only saved his life by Clinging to the
| timbers OF the ~oof and hanging there
in pitch darkness for FIVE hours till the
| water was pumped out. Who was re
sponsible for the accident was not
known for certain. II was put down
/ to new hand, Evans by name.
/ A few days later a second accident
! happened I'm the same pit. A great mass
of coal rock fell from the roof in one
OF the workings. Sellers was again the
victim. He was killed on the spot. But
| Evans, the man whose pick had tapped
/ the flooded workings previously, was
! also caught by the falling rocks and
was terribly injured. They carried him
to a hospital. and there, before he died,
| he told a strange story. It appears
| that ne and Sellers and four other men
had been in partnership in smuggling
diamonds out of Kimberley. Sellers,
whose real name was Alleys, was
caught by the L D B. detectives. and
to save his own skin had turned queens
evidence.
The others had time to hatch
scheme of vengeance during five years
| hard labor on the Capetown breakWa-
ter, and when their term was up Evans
had been delegated to carry it out. He
told how he had tracked Alleys first to
Tasmania, thence to i'erth, in western
Australia, and from there back again,
via San Francisco and Boston, to Eng
land. and finally ran him literally TO
earth" i'm South Wales.
Several similar and equally strange
cases of long delayed revenge have
come to light during the past few years,
cases which for relentless persistence
remind one strongly of the pursuit by
the Russian General Ouchakoff of his
erring wife and the man with whom she
fled. Here is a very strange one:
On a day in 1902 the following adver-
tisement i'm a Sydney paper met the eye
of Police Inspector Pickersgill: ITO A.
l., see Judges w.. 81" The inspector
turned 10 the reference and found:
Then Jael, Hebers wife, took a nail of
the tent, and took a hammer in her
hand and smOte the nail into
his temples"
The matter slipped the inspectors
memory until some weeks later a man
was found dead in his bed in a lodg
ing house in Clarke street, and post
norton proved that he had come to his
end by the driving of long, fine needle
through the temple, deep into the brain.
At once Pickersgill bethought him of
the strange advertisement and began an
investigation. Very soon he discovered
that a Servian named Anton Ldchinski
mad been staying in a house only two
doors from the one in which the muir
der had been committed, but had just
left for Melbourne. Lachinsh was
tracked from place to place, and finally
arrested at Ballarat. He confessed his
crime, but more he would not tell ex-
cept that the victim had deserved his
fate It is believed that the murdered
man was one of those who gave evil
dence concerning the stabbing of Mons.
GeOrgevitch, Servian minister in Paris
i'm 1898. The advertisement was no
doubt a message from his aCCOmp4ices
to LachinSki.
Many a tale has been told of futile
attempts on the part of Nihilists to es-
cape the penalty of broken Oaths. Here
is one from real life.
1t was nothing but little black pei
let that Ivan Derusewich found in his
coat pocket as he undressed one even
ing in his little back room in Soho. Yet
ne turned pale when he saw it, and.
locking the door, sat down and waited
till morning Then, pale and haggard
he went to his work in an Aldersgate
fur shop. On his way home another
black pellet found its way into his coat
pocket. The man who slept in the
room below heard Derusewich pacing
his floor nearly all night long, In the
morning Others noticed that DeruSe-
wich's face had aged ten years.
Two mornings later the wretched
mans dead body was found on his bed.
Suicide by swallowing prussic acid was
the verdict. So ii was, but suicide
forced upon the unfortunate creature
whose nerve had failed him when, in
September, 1897, he had been ordered
by the chiefs OF the Society of the Iron
Oath to fire the mine in the Nowy Swat,
Warsaw, and so destroy Russia's young
car. Derusewich had escaped at the
time, but for five long years he had
been relentlessly hunted by the erLss-
saries of the society, until at last ne
was tracked down in London's heart.
In January. 1903, two crushed human |
bodies were found by a mule driver al |
the bottom of the Barranca, a deep ra- |
vine near Madrid One was identified |
as that of Colonel Blanco, a Spanish |
officer lately retired The other was a |
man, whose ankle was
firmly graspad in the rigid hands of the /
soldier. Plainly the native had pushed /
the other over the unprotected edge of /
the path above. and had been seized in /
mis- victims death grip as he fell, so that /
murdered and murderer had gone TO /
common doom en- the crags a hundred |
feet below.
The brown man proved to be a Fill
Pine from LuzOn. Colonel BlancO had |
served in the Philippines for years, and /
had come home a rich man. 1t was no
torious that his dealings with the ma
tives had been none too scrupulous |
The true secret of the tragedy remains
unknown But that il was revenge can
hardly be doubted. If this was indeed /
the motive, then the native must have
been following his intended victim for
nearly seven years. Colonel Blanco had /
from the Philippines in 1897. /
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