Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-04-30
STILL CHASING THE CROOKS
Russian Government Gives Evidence
of Serious Purpose.
SECRET CODE BOOKS WERE SOLD
Sailor Given Long Term for Traffick-
Ing with Foreign AEent-RussiRn
Marries His Mother and
Tragedy Results.
RY GEORGE FRASER.

ST. PETERSBURG, April 9.-(Special to
The Bee)-The government is pressing its
prosecution of bribery and corruption in
public affair Although both OF TIRE pow
ers concerned have made official denials
of having been favored through such
breach of trust, a naval court-martial at
st. Petersburg has just completed, after
sitting in camera, in which former sailor
has been sentenced to twelve years penal
servitude.
The o.fense alleged against him was
that he sold secret code books to the agent
OF a foreign power This power was sup
posed TO be Great Britain, and the agent
a naval attache. The British government,
through the ambassador at st. Petersburg,
has categercally denied that any such
traffic has taken place. An allegation
that the prisoner dealt also with Ger
man has been officially denied from Ber-
lin.
The prisoner was an ex-bluejacket named
Povadze. He was convicted Of selling in
formation gathered by Russia concerning
the naval strength Of certain other pow
ers. Povadze denied that he had any bust
ness with Captain Aubrey Smith, British
naval attache, or with Colonel Wyndham,
who lived in a fiat in the same building
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made by a servant OF the building. who,
he fancied, had grievance against one
OF these officers. It had been stated by
the prosecution at the court-martial that
the flat was place where foreign agents
met the prisoner and received from him
official secrets and documents
Man AIarriea His Mother.
Russian Poland has been the scene Of
~ nj traOAdy Of q abnclinR natiT0 grow
ing out of the social condition of the coun-
try. The triple tragedy is directly due to
mans discovery that his wife, whom he
had recently married, was his mother. Two
years ago a handsome young peasant oh
tanned work on Widows farm in the VIII
lage of Poloschewo. He came from Anch-
angelsk, where his foster parents resided,
and in due course married the widow.
One day the couple we're discussing their
former life when the wife made the horri-
BILE discovery that she was the mother OF
her husband, whom she had abandoned
when she was II.
On hearing this the young man disap-
| peared, but he was found by his wife
mother a fortnight later living with a
woman in another town. In spite Of his
wife's entresties he refused to return with
her. Sliced with jealousy, she attacked
her rival and stabbed her to death. The
young man again lived with his Wife
mother. One night the police, who had
got wind OF the murder, knocked at the
door in which the modern Edipus lived.
A few minutes later noise was heard.
The police broke open the door. fright
full spectacle met their gaze. On the floor
lay the wife, her head almost severed
from her body. Beside her was her SON
husband, stabbed to the heart.
"Mad Monk" stIu AgitatInE.
Russias mad monk has again set the
empire in ferment The eyes OF the
country are fixed on Tsaritsn, where the
monk Iiodor continues TO defy both the
holy synod and the government.
According to kilograms from Tsaritsln,
Notwithstanding the large number of po-
lice and Cossacks. Holder s. fervent follow
ers, numbering thousands. have sworn not
to allow his arrest, and they are prepared
to lay down their lives in that cause.
Guards and patrols have formed, and are
on duty day and night, the principal or
ganizers being a priest and his chief OF
staff, an ex-soldier. The potential cham
pions OF Iioder have been selected from
among the strongest carriers and porters
The utmost precautions have been taken
that none except the known local faithful
shall be admitted to the church. Regular
rounds by torchlight are made into the
innermost recesses Of the monastery In
order to make sure that there are no pc.
lice concealed there. Ropes have beer
suspended outside the church from tn,
belfry for the purpose Of raising an i'm
mediate alarm in the event OF an incursior
being attempted. Three doors leading tC
the sanctuary are heavily bolted and
barred, and a subterranean exit has beer
prepared TO enable Iioder to escape in tn,
last extremity