The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-07-25
1NCE PLOTTED
MURDER OF GEAR
General Harting and the Rus
V sian Terrorist Landensen One
and the Same Person.
BECAME POLICE OFFICIAL
AN RETIRED AT HIS OWN RE-
N.Y. o"rsr ON PENSION OF s2,5oo.

,.4.rsI,1rg. July General Har-
o1 s---,e- chief of the Russian pOlit-
u'5' -.lf.s hoard. who recently was de-
l'-- - bv N. Bourtzeff as being i'm
h'-l-ts5 i'm the plot to assassinate En-
p- Alexander III, has been in st.
p5-o t-1rp for the last two weeks ar
Fsl15 lis affairs. He has been re-
I--7-t z--, the police service at his own
u-. on am annual pension of $1,000.
l5t- ~, interview today, which was Sc
i u-irb much difficulty, General
l--.i,- who was known also as Mi
re- Tandesen. made the important an
l'.- --.-77art that AZef, a leader Of the
l-yl---i-s organization of reVOlutiOnists
noted police spy whom the Rus
e- noIice profess to be seeking
.s.----rq5out the world, is now in Russia
.--.,,1I-ing an important post in the So
o.nad third section or political police.
Had Seen a Terrorist.
General Harting is residing in one Of
che apartmeHts maintained by the po-
~ where they can meet the revolu-
,s.rarv agents. He consented to talk
--5sn convinced that he was recognized.
us readily admitted his identity with
,Fs terrorist L.andesen, saying that in
.--lv youth he sincerely believed in the
,-rcfDIes of terrorism and participated
TT,5sr the name Of Landesen in plan
1.rg with others the assassination Of
,isyander III i'm 1880. He denied, how
-rsr that he had betrayed his comrades
m the French police, as NJ Bourtzeff
has charged.
His ideas changed after he secured
snrlOyment as a clerk in the embassy
ar Paris Later he was transferred to
The police service, but never was an
agent provocateur or traitor, citing as
moot Of this his continued friendly re-
sti57s with his old revolutionary ac-
eusi7tances. He served the Russian
government, he said, honorably and
faithfully, and his services were recOg-
rfzsd by communication from high quar-
TOYS on his retirement
Saved Bourtzeff Many Times.
General Harting was very bitter
against Bourtzef, who. but for General
Huung. according to the latter's asser-
ts1 would long ago have persisted in
French 0r Russian prison. The French
government repeatedly has proposed to
arrest or eXpel BOurtZeff. On such oc-
csE0ES General HaTting has interposed.
and now France was in possession of
evidence that BouTtzeff was hand-in-
glove with the active terrOrists and had
again decided to eXpel him.
He talked about the famous govern
EEt agent, Azef, who from a central
position I'm the revOlutionists' councils
Ei for years kept the government in
tm5l on terrorist plots against the
Emperor and high officials. General
Hlrtle. who mad longer and more in
u1ate relations with Azef than anyone
6@ declared that Azef had never
paved a double game with the govern
nzll nor sacrificed the life of a single
1aai to further his own ends. He as
sai71 that BOuTtzeff's charge that Azef
BAD PARTICIPATED in the assassination of
Won Plenve was absurd Azef owed
s7s'yhing to Won Plehve and sincerely
Owed him
continuing, HaTting declared that
Ale- was clever, Woodworking and hon
81 ana had repeatedly risked his life
-e serve the government, and that ne
vas sun highly appreciated at st. Pc
1s0lls' ana was rendering valuable
s1i'lees at the present time, although
n what capacity he had no right to
g, during the interview the former Do
-.s elleI displayed no embarrassment
IA'h perhaps might have been expect
y ~ ID view OF the charges lodged against
1 1- he said he was now gathering
I lo,,-.,nentary evidence for the full re-
sanitation --.i,on of his character. which
ay--l oe published shortly in order to
49, 80 ms retention If the honorary
-,-eS,4A Title Of Councillor Of State and
IrT-. q. In the Legion of Honor
Is expects 10 reside abroad