The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-20
INSIDE DOINGS OF
RUSSIAN POLICE
Nine Tenths of Country Under
Marta Law
INGlIING C0NSPIRACIES
Authorities In Secret Service Are
Charged With melting Riots and
Manufacturing lncriminat-
Ing Evidence.


During the past three years the Russian
press, occasionally also the foreign press,
recorded accounts of revolutionary organ
izations that failed, innumerable arrests,
the discovery from time to time of
bombs and other firearms by the police,
armed attacks upon the police in various
parts Of Russia, plots against the Cars
life and against the life Of other high
officials in Russia
At the same time the newspapers pub
fish daily the number of people that are
executed, hanged or shot, Of people that
are exiled or sent to the galleys or to
fortresses for life. And yet the people of
Russia, and still fewer people outside OF
Russia, know that most Of the crimes
for which people were put to death,
banished, or imprisoned were inspired,
organized and often carried out by tho
agents Of the Russian police department
employed for the purpose Of counterfeit
ing the revolution.
The part played by the police depart
ment has in many cases been disclosed
In the course of the trials of the ter
rorists, "expropriators," agitators and
organizers Of revolutionary parties, and
the facts show beyond the slightest
shadow of a doubt that the methods en-
ployed by the police provocateurs ara
intended not only to crush the revolu-
tionary parties within Russia but also
to discredit the people who are work
ing for the rejuvenation and emancipa-
ton of Russia
Under Martial Law.
Such tactics are characteristic Of the
decaying political order of the old regime
in Russia and when you know that al
most nine-tenths of Russia Is under mar
tial law, or under extraordinary protec-
tion," which means that every governor
of every province can do what he pleases
without consulting the code of law, know
ing that he would in all probability be
censured or even dismissed for being too
lenient or for acting In accordance with
the requirements of justice, you Will have
some idea of the scope of the police prov
ocation throughout the empire.
The court records show that the po-
lice provocation during the past three
years had manifested itself in Kaku. Bye
lostok, Grodue, Kaluga, Kiev, Kremen-
chug, Moscow, Samara, St. Petersburg,
Simeropol, Odessa, Warsaw, Werzhbol-
ovo. Vino, Yekaterinoslav, Ufa, Tsarskoe
Selo and also in Switzerland.
The facts reveal provocatory acts OF
the greatest diversity beginning with or
ganization work of political parties ana
ending with the fabrication Of "conspira-
cies" and armed attacks for "expropria-
tom and other terrorist purposes. These
records shows also that the character OF
the work of the police provocateurs Is
not sporadic or accidental, but systemat-
&c and closely connected with the depart
ments of the highest officials in Rus
sa-
Police Plan Treason.
In 1905, in the city of Ufa, at trial Of
several young people accused OF having
assassinated a spy 1t was estabhshed'
conclusively, according to the court rec
ords, that the man who had organized
the murder was an agent Of the depart
ment of the gendarmerie. The young men
were convicted and sentenced long
terms in prison.
In Raku, during a revision of the police
department, made by Senator Kuzmin-
sky, it was found that there existed an
enormous organization, which was man
euvered by the highest officers OF the
local police, who placed secret printing
plant at the disposal of the organization,
published revolutionary proclamatons ana
then arrested the people who distributed
and who kept the proclamations. In Blev
" Grieorvev tore the portrait of the Tsar
on November IS, 1905, in the building OF
the city hall for the purpose OF giving
signal to start a massacre.
ON June 20, 1906, Grigoryev was SEM
fenced TO imprisonment for nine years py
the supreme court of Kiev Tor having
murdered q porter who had refused 10
point out to him the houses where jews
lived, In the course of the triai II was
made clear that Grigoryev was provo
cateur in pay of the police department
On April q, 1906, the supreme court Oh
| a
Bergman. who had thrown carbolic acid
ar the assistant police inspector, YEN
menko, who stood in the market place
midst a crowd of Jewish workmen.
Starting Pogron,.
This incident almost called forth mas
sacre. Bergman, when arrested, cameo
himself Alexeyev. and declared llat ne
was serving in the police department
NV specjalty a provocateur." 1t was es-
tahlished that Bergman had on previous
! occasion fired at the chief or police OF
| Minsk, "for the purpose or starving po-
grom." Bergman declared that Irepot
Tney ~ his work, and always protected
him.
s Chertkoff, another provocateur, was
killed in Yekaterinoslav in the beginning
of 1906. The records disclosed that TINS
man had for IS months been regarded
as an important revolutionist in the
south of Russia; that he was a member
of the Yekaterinoslav committee or the
| Russian social democratic party
Wherever he appeared one arrest ioiioweo
after another, and the organization was
almost broken up completely. Chertkori
was on the pay roll of the police Depart
ment.
One of the most suspicious crimes
was the assassination of the police or
| flcer, Kavalev of Simferopol. who was
loved by the population for his Kindness
and justice. The direct accusation
made in many quarters that he was
| removed" by the police department be-
! came rather dangerous and six agents
of the police department were assigned
to Investigate the case, which was, OF
course, hushed up. In the same city
a man fired at a company of soldiers
| When caught he admitted at the sta
| ton house that he was an agent OF the
| notice department, and that he had f1red
| for the purpose of starting a massa-
| ere.
A Layer of Shares.
On October 4 the military court OF
| Minsk sentenced M. Zitrin to the gal
( leys for 10 years "for numbering for
political reasons Ornatsky Ferkel. the
agent of the secret police department
| Gerkel. q teacher by profession, came
| to the city of Mink under the name OF
| Ornatsky in 1900. He succeeded In
! making himself popular as an organ
| izer of a branch of the "Bund" In 100;
| Ornatsky became the president OF thu
Minsk branch of the bund, and 1t was
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