The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-09
An Intrenid Fighter.


 at the point of death in the prison of Lublin. after a terrific fight with the police. in which he, singlehanded and armed with a cheap Belgian revolver defied the horse. foot and artillery sent out to capture him.
 Lisa. the son of Polish Count, two members of whose family sit respect ably In the St. Petersburg Douma, was expelled from Warsaw University for skipping the roctor's face. He disap- peared, and as a sign that he abjured lawful society forever, he sealed his passport In an envelope and mailed 1t contemptuously to the prefect of the city. The police put him on their list of "illegaf' persons and on that day he began a series of amazing adven- lures.
 For two years continuously he plund- cred Warsaw on behalf of the thrn nascent revolution. but as he killed nobody and as there were then no field court martials." he got off with a sentence of twelve years penal serv- itude when he first fell into the hands of the police. Half way across Slbe- ria he broke from his prison train. Two days later troop train packed with soldiers for the Japanese war was mys- tcriously derailed. and seven soldiers killed. It was Lisa's first act of ven- geance. He devoted himself to foilng the Governments mobilization plans. He tapped or cut the telegraph wires. delayed the trains by false signals and was finally tracked to the Volga. On the day of his arrival an attempt was made to blow up the only bridge by which Russia could send troops to the scene of war.
 A year later Lisa appeared among the terrorists of Odessa, and Nvolun- teered to assassnate a departmental policemaster whose sleuthhound raids made him a terror to the revolution. Disguised as a policeman he penetrated to the officers study and shot him dead A few months later he was cap tured in a German colonist's house. In the train to Odessa he made his cap- tors drunk. and threw them through the car window on to the line, and got away.
 At Kharkoff where the Fox next ap peared, he found worse foes than the police. The terrorlsts believed that the police had connived at his escape in exchange for information. They con- demned him to death. and in order to make it seem that the death was an accident, bound hiu1-another Mazep- pa-to a trolley and sent 1t flying down an inclined track which ended in a water-filled quarry. The trolley smash ed at the first obstacle, rolled over and hurled itself and its victim Into the water, Lisa kicked himself ashore with one leg--the other was broken After that he lirnped. and was known as "the fox with the broken tail"
 He returned to Warsaw. Posing as a soldier. returned invalided from the war he collected around him the hool- igans and desperadoes who infest the district of the Vistula bridge. Warsaw was in a state of civil war. Scores of officials, policemen and soldiers were shot down in the streets by the flying squads of the revolution. The whole forces of the law were arrayed against the assassins. Lisa took advantage of this to plunder the city. In one night he sacked five houses In the rich Mar zalkowski street When the revolu- tion fury subsided. and the authorities became lax, he returned to terrorism He killed a soldier who had offended him in the sight of a squadron of dra- goons, and after emptying his revolver in their midst. got safely away.
 Supplied with ample funds. Lisa for sock Warsaw. and turned his attention to semi-revolutionary, semi-predatory enterprises in Moscow. For several months he posed as a fanatical secta- rian spent his money in semi-religious orgies. and finally ran away with the daughter and money of a prosperous tanner The tanner informed the po- lice, who recognized the bandits de- scrlption. But both Lisa and the girl had disappeared. The girl has never since been seen. But Lisa duly reap peared
 This was his last appearance He emerged as agrarian agitator in Lub- lin and Siedlitz governments. By talk ing the part of the Russian peasants against the local Polish magnates, he got together a gang which plundered the local chateaux and killed scores of policemen and rural guards. After a pitched battle on the outskirts of Sled litz the gang was nearly exterminated. But the Fox remained.
 Once he escaped by spending the night In the house of a Liublin mag istrate. the only house which he knew would escape search. A week later he was tracked by his footprints across six miles of snow-coyered forest, Sud denly the tracks ceased The pursu- CTS sought him in the tree branches, and seeing what appeared to he man, fired A Cossack climbed the tree to bring down the victim. It was the bandits coat. carefully posed In the tree fork Taking advantage of their astonishment, the Fox dashed out of a snow covered kiln and fled. The pur- suers made after him, and one and all were engulfed in deep snow drift
 At last at SIavlin village, near Luih- lin. Lisa was brought to bay. Sur rounded by Cossacks and infantry he took refuge in a smithy. The smith and his family fled. leaving behind a young child The Fox threw the child through the window to a place of safety. and began to shoot The be- slegers drew dangerously near Two of them fell. They retreated. poured in a dozen volleys and again drew in. The Fox brought down third. Artil- lery was sent for. In three hours from