The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-31
TRAlT0 MUST DIE
HEAD TERRonIsT WAS A P0LrCE
 SPY.
Ills Assoetste. Met and CenAepned Hfm--Ffe is New . Hunted
 Fugitive Fearfnx ss
 Death .

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 Paris. Jan 3o.--A profound sensation has been caused in Russian .revolutionr Ary circles In Paris by the discovery that one of tho most trusted leaders of the Terrorist organizations was merely an "agent-provocateur," who for years. as the price Of his treachery. has been drawing . flandsorne salary from the Russian secret police.
 The council and committee of the Russian Social Party have their head quarters in Paris.
 honesty and good faith of their com rads. whose name is Eugene Azeff They were convinced that he was In league with the police. but the difii- cuity was to establish his guilt. Only a few days ago, and while the sus- pected man was still on q visit to Paris, irrefutable proofs of his per- fidy found their way into the hands of the Central Organization. That body ccnvoking its members sent Axen . Sunmons to appear before the dread tribunal Of the Terrorists where the Judgement is speedy and the punish ment swift.
 As Azsft probabiy suspected that his secret had been discovered, hegignored the committees call and disappeared. notwithstanding that detectives belong ing to the Terrorist organization had been set to watch his movements To- day Is stili a fugitive from the grim justice of the Revolutionary tribunak The latter body judged him by de- fault, and after twenty minutes de- liberation its members condemned the traitor to death. The Paris body has denounced him to the Revolutionary Committees throughout Europe, and if Axef is still hiding in Europe. and his whereabouts ber discovered, hts death sentence will be executed with out con npunction or without mercy.
 In the current number of the Hue and Cry" published on behalf of the Central Committee in Paris. there is recorded the action taken by that or ganization. It is followed by detailed description of the personal appearance of the. missing man. E.
 Astounding revelations are likely to follow upon the fight of the false Terrorist, and the committee itself promises very interesting disclosures the fugitfve's past. According to the leaders Of the Paris organization, Azeff has been the prime mover in the var- ious Terrorist outrages that have taken place in Russia. Some documents stoI- en by revolutionary agent from the safe of a very highly-placed police offi- cial in Russia go to show that Azeff has been drawing pay at the rate of 3sso00 year from the Russian authori- ties. He became associated in the Terrorist movement in St. Petersburg about the period of Bloody Sunday" It was at this time that what is called the Red Section" of the Social Res evolutionary Party was organized.
 Azeff. who then was regarded as the most fanatieal of Nihillsts joined this newly formed body. and. according to what a Terrorist said, he was one of the selected few. who sat in judgment upon Father Gapon when the latter man was tried and executed on the charge of being a police spy.
 It was the brain of Azeff who plann- ed the principle coups, and by his very daring he speedily won the confidence of his desperate associates, and he was soon elected to the highest post in the executive. But now, as # would appear. about three out of every five outrageg planned in Russia during the last slx years were carefully com. municated beforehand to the police by the present fugitive, and the police took their measures accordingly. Some of the authors of the attempts were killed outright by their owR bombs others were slain by the police; those who survived and were taken alive were either hanged or sent to Siberia. It is even alleged that Engene AzeR was concerned in the murders of the Grand Duke Sergo and M. de Plshyo, the Minister of the Interior. | q saas H