The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1907-11-29

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Like the invention of a romancer
is the following true incident from an
article by Leroy Scott in Every
body's, illustrating the resourceful-
ness and cool nerve of the Russian
terrorists:
Gin Warsaw year ago one of
the most skilful, most daring of re-
cent terroristic plans was consum-
mated-without shot or the loss
of a drop of blood. Ten political
prisoners in Pavrack prison were con-
demned to death and group of
Warsaw terrorists determined to res
cue them or to die trying.
Toward midnight, about thirty
hours before the time set for execu-
ton, the voice of the Chief of Police
of Warsaw called over the telephone
to the assistant warden: Get ready
these ten prisoners giving names
and dates of arrest, for immediate
transfer to the citadel. Gendarme
Officer Baron Rudbery will call in
half an hour with the necessary
orders and will take charge of the
transfer
''That gruff, authoritative voice
was indubitably the chiefs (the imi-
tation was perfect), so the assistant
warden began hastily to prepare the
necessary papers. Within the speci-
fed half hour Baron Rudberg was
at the prison entrance, yawning,
smoking, sleepily cursing the revolu-
tionists. Baron Rudberg, very stiff,
very insolent, proceeded to the as
sistant warden and delivered the
orders for the prisoners. The min
utes while the warden was examin-
ing the paper were hours of racking
strain to the terrorist beneath Baron
Rudberg's mask; if there were any
flaw in the forgeries he and his COM
rades would die with the ten.
But the forgeries were perfect.
"The warden humbly begged par
don. but his papers were not yet
ready. Baron Rudberg abused his
slowness with true official arrogance.
An hour passed-two. This delay
had not been counted on; momently
the Baron expected some telephone
call, some police visit, that would
send them all to death. But finally
the formalities were completed and
the prisoners ordered from their
cells.
1.-The prisoners, of course, were
entirely ignorant of the scheme for
their rescue. When the ten were all
brought together, one of them recog-
nized the Baron, and so sudden was
the idea that here was plot for their
deliverance that he could not mask
his face. The Baron saw the look,
trembled lest others had also seen
it. Immediately he burst into new
abuse of the warden, which turned
all eyes to that official and reduced
him to cringing apology.
''The ten prisoners were led down
to the entrance, where the six police
men and the black prison wagon
we're in waiting. The policemen,
with all the characteristic brutality
Of the Russian police, showed into the
wagon the ten prisoners, still igno-
rant of their fate-taking care that
their comrades did not attempt a
desperate dash for liberty. Then the
gates were thrown open and the
wagon ratified out.
GAS they were going through a
quiet, almost houseless street, one OF
the policemen on the back step called
out: 'Hold-a wheel is broken! The
wagon stopped, and the driver
climbed down and stopped to examine
the indicated wheel. Suddenly he
was caught by the throat and thrust
in among the prisoners. Then the
horses were driven to a secluded
country house, clothes, money and
passports were furnished, and i'm
mediately all concerned were hurry
ing toward the frontier"
DOG AND HORSE AID MASTER.
To the sagacity of his old sorrel
horse and his dog Rover Jeremiah
Hodgkins, a farmer living near Great
Notch, N. j., owes it that his wife
found him where he lay unconscious
in the road after an accident. Hodg-