Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-06

he goes out His friends are trying to
get him over the frontier and thence to
America, but his wife and family will have
to be left behind for want Of funds.
Very often the terrorists try a man Off
hand and shoot him then and there. the
following incident being characteristic:
Edward Grajnert, board school teach
err, had done all he could to put down So
cialism among his pupils The socialists
warned him once or twice, but he dared
them to do their worst. One night, as he
was going home from his betrothed sew
eral youths fell upon him, dragged him to
a lonely spot near q disused mill, where
their confederates were awaiting them.
They went through a mock trial, in which
some Witnesses declared that he had
worked against "the cause" and he was
sentenced to death. His cries brought
patrol to the spot, but not before one of
the Judges had mortally wounded him.
The patrol fired volley and killed a man
who was recognized as one Grobel, no.
torious bandit, with more than one murder
to his record. Murderer and victim died
before the ambulance reached them, and,
of course, the other ruffians escaped. Grobeps
body was seized by the police and taken
to their mortuary, which is attached to
the military hospital. But the anti-social-
lists, who have learned to avenge their
comrades and follow their enemies ex-
ample. entered the building In some mys-
FERROUS way and snatched it the night be-
for the funeral was to have taken place.
1t was found, terribly mutiated, on a rub
bish head not far from the scene of Graf
merits murder.
Thus, one act Of savagery Is followed
by another, till both sides have become in
human in their cruelty, and seem to vie
with each other in finding out some new
revenge. Grajnerts case is common
enough, though generally the murderers
get off scot free, SO afraid are the police
of being killed by order of the Black Band.
The mere recital of these daily horrors
would till volumes. One week the social
lists have their orgies of blood, killing and
wounding wholesale, the next the anti-so-
cialists enjoy their revenge, killing
wounding, il possible, the same number of
victims as their enemies. Some of the
scenes which has disgraced Lodz are al
most incredible. The anti-socialists had
an active leader, Koperek, by name who
had been on the killing committee" for
some months. fellow workman betrayed
him and he was Swallowed. But he had al
ways a strong guard and it was some time
before they could get him with only one
friend. That day came, however, and his
enemies followed them from the mill to
within short distance of his house. Ko-
perek began to get nervous and slipped into
a house, hoping to escape by the roof HIS
pursuers saw his trick, let him get on to
the roof. which he did by means Of CHM
ney, and followed him.
A wild chase followed, Koperek crawling
over the slanting roofs as well as he could
and the others pursuing. But they were
six to one, and surrounded him. By this
time large crowd had collected in the
street below. Koperek, knowing that death
awaited him in any case, and choosing the
less horrible, jumped from the roof. But he
fell onto the crowd below. When his pur-
suers called from the roof to stone him
they were obeyed, and by the time the mil
itary and the ambulance had arrived ali
mass which could not be recognized as
koperek even by the mans own family,
and 1t was not until the passport had been
taken from his pocket that they knew who
1t was.