Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-05-19
CAR SEEKS LIFE
OFU.S.C.STUDENT
RUSSIAN MARKED BY SPIES
FOR DEATH
BULLET AND POISON USED IN
SAN FRANCISCO
Former Army Officer Who Is Attend
ing College In Los Angeles
Arms to Resist Secret
Foes

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| been condemned to death by the Rus
| sian government.
Hounded across two continents by
spies of Car Nicholas, struggled out
of a Siberian prison-school stuffed in
| between the springs of a lounge, clutch
| ing a pistol in his hand day and night
for weeks during one of the most peril
Gus flights ever attempted by a pris-
oner of the car, and forced to fly for
| his life from one foreign country to
another, Col. Lochwitzsky has again
been compelled to ask the authorities
of Los Angeles for protection and has
| been given permission to carry pistol.
expecting any moment of the day or
night to be killed by the bullet, blade
| or poison of the paid spies who are now
once more on his trail, watching for
the first opportunity to assassinate
him and send to the bureaucracy of
Russia the report of their success.
| Col. Lochwitzskys escape from the
horrors Of Siberia, which is noted for
! its grim walls and atrocious bon age,
was one of the most thrilling features
| of his eventful career as a Russian
prisoner, but marked only the begin
ming of what may yet prove the end
| the beginning of a series of death
lodging flights and maneuvers seldom
heard of outside the pages of a Toll
stoi or Turgenieff.
| was huSStdn OIICCT
Lochwitzsky was at one time an Off
| Ger in the Russian cavalry, but was
| suspected of harborin~ reform prin-
ciples and for some petty or trumpet
| up offense, always readily proved in
this land of tyranny, he was sentenced
| to serve in the gray labyrinths of ST.
IBERIA AS he was not a strong man,
| and the gravity of his offense to the
czar was somewhat questioned, the Of
Aaxo.. H. A1e xxf he of "a
removed him from the ranks of the
| common criminals, and in view of his
exceptional intelligence placed him in
| charge of one of the so-called convict
schools" where knowledge is dis
pensed after 1t has been culled, colored
and properly censored by the various
despots from the car down.
| This School Col. Lochwitzsky was
compelled to teach without the aid of
| books, which are considered quite SUI
perfluous and altogether too educative
in Siberian criminal curriculums. The
| only volume available was torn por-
| ton of Bible, which the colonel hap
fpened to have in his possession. He
repeatedly asked and pleaded for books
and supplies for his so-called school
room, but his requests were CURLY de-
MED A priest of the Greek Catholic
] church was supposed to visit the in
/ stitute twice week, but after Loeb
l
| for several months. When he did come
he was intoxicated, and, according to
| Col. Lochwitzsky, abused him for
| teaching the convict children from the
Bible, declaring 1t was full of revolu-
tionary ideas and precepts not calcu-
lated to support the Russian system of
government to strengthen the forces
of the czar'
lengthy argument ensued, but the
priest held his ground and reported the
matter to colonel in charge, who had
Lochwitzsky removed.
To escape the punishment that
threatened to follow from his teaching
of the Bible to children, Lochwitzsky
was compelled to flee, and hid himself
one night in lounge, which friends
sewed around him and shipped to
Japan.
During this "'i9ht in the lounge Loeb
whisky clasped a revolver in his right
hand, ready to kill himself II captured,
and made the thrilling journey into
Japan with many narrow escapes from
death, the lounge being roughly ham
died. part of the time standing on end,
with it's prisoner head down, when
death threatened him from rush of
blood to his brain. He survived the
trip, however, and landed safely in
Japan, where he soon found that paid
spies had detected him and were plot
ting to effect his capture and return
to Russia.
Lochwitzsky then fled to China, but
again was forced to flee with Russian
spies on his trail, back to Japan.
When he returned to Japan the
Russo Japanese war was in progress
and the colonel was looked upon with
suspicion by the Nipponese soldiers.
At one time, being taken for Russian
spy the Japanese tried to have him
put to death, and he had a narrow es-
cape from being murdered at the hands
of an angry mob, who hated all Rus
SLAMS.
Desiring to reach a country where
he need not fear the Russian govern
ment, Lochwitzsky came to the United
States, his trip over being marked by
other and numerous hardShips and adj
ventures. He landed at San Francisco,
where he took out his naturalization
papers some years ago.
While In San Francisco his life was
attempted by poison and he was shot
at by Russian spies. He fled from
there to Los Angeles, and has been here
about two years, working among the
poorer classes of his countrymen. For
perhaps the fiftieth time he has again
learned that the spies have followed
him here and that his steps are now
Swallowed night and day by these pail
representatives of the car, who have
threatened him with death
The reason of the attempts made on
the life of Lochwitzsky. and of the per-
sistency with which the Russian gov
eminent has sought him, is said to be
that, as he was an officer in the Rus
sian cavalry and at one time a recog-
nized writer and pedagogue of ability.
the Russian government believes him
possessed of too much valuable knowl-
edge of nature not calculated to add
honor to the representatives of that
government. This, at least, is the
claim made by Lochwitzsky's friends,
who believe the attempts on his life
have been followed up because of Loeb
witzskys work among the Russians in
Los Angeles.
Col. Lochwitzsky has received the
news of the death sentence imposed
upon him in Russia with silent stoi-
cism. He goes we'll armed and has
passed through so many thrilling dan
gers that the sentence itself does not
bother him. although he expects 1t will
be executed--not formally-for he Will
never return to his native country. but
by hired assassins, who may waylay
l,i,,, ,u,an laast pxDected. even here in