Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-11-04

poukin, assistant secretary Of the inte-
rior and chief of police. for which act
the official was exiled to Siberia in
1909 Azeff was tried by a revolution
airy court at Paris in his absence, and
condemned to death. He is in hiding
If the revolutionists ever find him
Gould not the treachery of Azen
be balanced with his revolutionary
work in helping to kill a grand duke
and minister of state?" was asked
NO" replied Mr.. Menschikoff.
"Azen was beast"
James Persitz, late an official in the
Russian secret police, now in New
York engaged in writing his memoirs,
gave an account of his adventures as
spy among terrorists-
One society which / joined in the
course Oh my duty provided me with an
experience which 1 shall never forget.
By the fierceness of my declarations
and the enegry 1 displayed l. rose I'M
til 1 was selected to carry out a des-
perate deed involving the murder of
a number of prominent officials. Need
less to say, the plot was communicate
ed by nae to the officials of the secret
police Communication with them
was, of course, extremely dangerous.
/ took the greatest possible care to
cover up the traces of my handiwork,
but nevertheless the anarchist police
outwitted me and secured tncontro-
vertible evidence that 1 was a police
spy. Their method of doing this was
interesting.
The chief of the society wrote out
the details of an attempt to be made
on certain high official. At time
| when only the leader and were in the
room he made some excuse for leav-
| ing me alone for a few moments. In
my eagerness to fulfill my duty 1 rap
| idly searched over the papers he had
| left, noting the place and the date
when the scheme was to be put into
| execution. Shortly afterward the an
| archist chief returned and pocketed
| the documents
ION the fateful night the chief in
| formed me that the attempt had been
postponed. AS 1 afterward found out,
some members of the anarchist police
sent to survey the neighborhood had
detected signs of the watching officials
and realized that their plans had been
divulged to the police by some traitor.
Since the chief of the anarchists and
myself were the only two people who
had any knowledge of the intendd
outrag-which, of course, was simply a
sham affair prepared to trap me. I
| was Immediately known to them in
my true light as a police spy.
After this, Mr.. Persitz says, he was
decoyed to lonely wood near Mos
COW, bound hand and foot by the ter
rorists and ordered to confess. AT
first, rendered desperate by my peril
1 stoutly refused to admit my guilt,
shouting frantically, I deny it ALI
But, with many curses and blows,
they told me that / was already con-
1 yicted- They ordered me to divulge
4 to them the secrets of the political
police. This, however, 1 refused to
do. My captors then held a consulta-
ton and decided to follow the methods
of the inquisition and wiring from me
by torture the particulars they were
seeking. Pins were forced in
to all parts of my body, each tormen-
tor apparently vying with the others
to discover a place which would pro-
duce the most excruciating pain.
The lash was applied in addition to
the pins. Then the captors, consid-
} ering it vain to gain any information,
discussed methods of killing the trail
tor. A handsome young Polish Jew
, ess, says the narrator came forward
and exclaimed:
81 have an excellent idea All the
deaths you suggest are too quick. He
! is tied; let US lay him on the railway.
The Petersburg express will shortly
, be due, and the Gus will have the
pleasure of lying helpless while he
sees the train coming nearer and near
er. 1t will give him time to think
over his treachery.
1.-The suggestion was heartily ap
proved. With many a curse and blow
was Pre- mptly carried OF and laid
across the rails of the Moscow-Peters
burg railway, being tied face upper
most to the rails by the ropes thai
} bound my hands behind my back. After
: having brutally kicked me almost into
insensiDility and wished me sarcastic
: 'goodby,' my onetime fellow anarch
: lists disappeared in the gathering dark
} ness of the night
| Slowly the minutes passed away
t and, at last, to my horror, heard the
rumble of the approaching train
D Never shall forget the unspeakabls
. | terror O. that moment. Nerve rackinf
: though the period of suspense hat
) been, it was as nothing to this Pres
! entity the rumble grew to a roar, and
turning my head, saw the lights o.
the express approaching Then 1 thinl
i | / lost all control of myself. In a fren
e zy of fear 1 redoubled my efforts tt
escape, f1inging myself this way and
: that. Larger and larger grew those