The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-04-26
WAS IN PLOT TO
KILL THE CAR
Beautiful Russian JeWess Who
Passed Through Rich
mond Tells Story.
HAD A NARROW ESCAPE.
AWAY FROM THE RUSSIAN COS
SACKS AND LATER FLED TO
THIS COUNTRY, DANGEROUS.


the most terrible crime known to Rus
sian imperial law-that is, TO assassi-
that is said to have saved a blow at
the life Of the present dynasty and
summary death to the principal pot
ter-a fair girl not over 20 years of
age, Miss Rebah GOdzensky, a beauti-
full Russian Jewess, was seen during
last nigk1 while a passenger on
a westbound pennsylvania train.
When the train pulled into the sta
ton 1t was only the work of mo-
ment to single out a beautiful young
Jewess, whose manner was foreign as
we'll as her dress.
Are you Miss Godzensky?" she was
asked, for a trainman had in some
way discovered her name. She an
swered with stare Of her large brown
eyes and a not Of the head.
Where are you FROM" she was
asked.
II come from the Russias,' she an
swered In broken English.
Aonlt8 She Is EEieo.
In broken English the girl said that
she had left Russia many weeks ago,
and admitted after some hesitation
that she was an exile from her native
land. She had not time to tell more
for the train was moving.
, Feeling that the passenger who first
gave the information of the girls pres
ence aboard the train knew something
more than the girl had told, it was in
order to hunt this gentleman up. He
was found at local hotel, being rec
ognized by his presence, and admitted
that he had travelled all the way frOl
New York with Miss Godzensky, and
that she had told him the reason of
her leaving Russia.
I'VE got to talking soon after we
! left Jersey City, he said, and | soon
learned that she was red-hot anarch-
! list, or as she chose to call herself, a
revolutionist. She seemed to glory in
her allegiance to the Red Cause She
warmed to her subject and at first op-
emily declared that it would be a
blessing to her country If the Car
could be killed.
IN PIot 10 Siay tne NzdT'
LAS she grew more confidential she
went further than this. She declared
that she had framed a desperate plot
to kill Nicholas, and with a few close
confederates had almost brought her
plan to a climax. and was only
watching for All opportune time to
commit the deed and had been fur
nished money to stay in st. Peters
burg for that purpose. She took up
her abode in respectable rooming
house and waited her chance. But
from the way she talked some one of
the plotters, evidently, grew weak
kneed and gave the plan away to the
military authorities.
at seems that the girl had spent sew
sral months in the capital watching for
her opportunity to shoot the Car, and
in her rooming house had formed two
or three confidential friends, who
were in sympathy with her scheme.
But the authorities at once got busy
and a band of Cossacks came to the
house and demanded the girl, dead or
alive The officers We're told that she
was not in, but this did not satisfy
them, and she was told TO hide as they
were about TO search the house. A
moment later the COssaCks broke in
the door and this Rodzensky girl, see
ing that death or capture stared her in
the face, ran to a back storerOom to
hide. But the COssacks were scatter
ing all through the house and she
had to act quickly. She saw a sack
lying on the floor and she hastily
called a man laborer of the house to
put her in the sack and carry her out
as if she were a bag of rubbish. The
ruse was so bold that it could not but
be successful. and the laborer with the
heavy burden swung across his shout
der. walked through a back door right
between two COsSaCks who were on
guard. The thick-headed fellows never
suspected a thing.
Once In the street the girl told the
man to carry her to the express office
and bride train official to take her
through to Paris. 1t did not require
much inquiry to find man of anarCh-
istic sentiment, and so it was success