The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1908-06-26
Under Suspicion.

was in London, where they were both
strangers and both happened to be
stopping at the same hotel. The Ger
man colonel was assaulted and robbed
on the street in the evening, and for n
week. or until he could send for money,
he was the guest of the American
There was something rather queer
about the incident The two gentle !
men were stunning when a public |
and two men sprang to the ground and |
attacked the German, while a third |
sought TO hold back the American.
The attempt was made to force the
German into the carriage, and it might
have been that his money was lost
during the struggle The American
fought for his companion. and the fell
lows were finally driven off. 1t looked
more like a case of attempted abduc-
tion than of holdup, but as the Ger
man argued the other way the Amer
| lean had to be satisfied.
1t was five years before the two met
again. This time it was on the Ger
man frontier, and both were bound
for St Petersburg. Colonel Jayne was
| travelling for pleasure; the other cX-
| plIincd that he was ON Il secret mission
FOR his government He made this cN-
PLANTATION because he had shaved off
his luXuriant whskcrs and was other
wise disguised and recognition was ac-
cidcntal. Colonel Swartz was well ac-
| quaintcd in the capital city, and it was
! arranged that the two should stop at
the same hotel and take in the sights
together. They did take adjoining
rooms on their arrival, but the German
said that he would he busy for two
or three days and left il to the other
TO find his way about alone.
| Next morning after arrival Colonel
Jayne set out with Yankee impatience
to see the sights. Three times during
the forenoon strangers approached him
and muttcrcd some words. They were
Russians who evidently belonged to
the middle class, and in each case the
colonel thought they were inQuiring
| their way. He therefore shook his
head and passed on. During the after
noon he discovered that his footsteps
were being doggcd but he took this
rather as a joke tEan otherwise. He
did not return To his hotel until Just
ut dinner time and then found Il couple
of police officers waiting TO arrest him.
They had already visited his rooms
and ovcrhaulcd his baggage Colonel
SwartZ was missing and had been
since noon. His baggage had also been
overhaulcd, and The officers seemed
much chaGrincd ut the mans escape.
Colonel Jayne had known absolutely
nothing of the German before meeting
him at the hotel in London. He had
taken the man for what he claimed to
be. He had no idea that he was an
4 impostor, so far as name and rank
o went. and that he was one of the most
active nihilists I'm or out of Russia
q The three men that had approached
- the American on the streets probably
belonged TO that order rs we'll The
German happened 10 be returning TO
4 Russia at that time. ana accident had
discovered the two men TO each other
After being under examination for
half day Colonel Jayne was sent to
nm official higher up Here he was met
by the papers taken from his baggage
He had made n months stay in Lon
don before starting for Russia and had
received several letters from friends
at home. One of them had jocoscly
written:
Don't forget that the first thing to
he done on your arrival in st. Peters
burg is TO call on the emperor and give
him my love and tell him TO hang on
to his job as long rs the pay comes in
every Saturday night"
How can YOU, person entirely un-
, known here, secure audience with his
majesty was asked.
, Il can't, of course was the reply.
l Then why should this person have
thus writtcnT
He is what we call joker"
Joker? Joker? Does he dare hold
his majesty up TO ridiculc! And you
are TO give his love TO the car of all
Russia just as one peasant woman
sends her love TO another! Ana how is
: this about holding his job? What does
job mcan?"
; His place, sir"
but his majcsty'S place is the high
| est i'll the land and 10 speak of il as
II JOB is to speak with disrcspcct
And the pay every Saturday night as
IL the great ear was but common
! labOrerw
Il shall take great pleasure i'm telling
the writer of that letter what am ass
he is the very first thing whcn get
home" replied the colonel
and here is another letter in which
you are advised not to make any ex-
cursions to Siberia in the winter sea
son. People are sent to Siberia for
serious offenses against the law Were
YOU contemplating n crime that tlis
person should write you thus? It,nust
be So"
I'll recommend him to the nearest
IDIOT asylum promised the colonel
The examination lasted three DAYS in
all, during which time the American
was prisoner ana lived on prison
fare. Then, accompanied bv ty, ,,,,,