The Detroit times., 1912-11-13
BRAzEN CRATER
-ESENT 10 PRISON
.PIunging General Raked N
: Million Dollars During Rus
so-Japanese War -,

- ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. lS.-Coh
.-victed by q special courtmartial OF
Operating the most brazen system o.
graf IN the history OF the Russian EN-
pire. Maj. Gen. Ogorovitch has begun
serving a three years prison sentence
having I'm addition forfeited his RANK
and various decorations.
- Known as the 'plunging general
1T IS estimated TINT during the ~
-months he acted as chief OF the mill
-tary transport service IN ManchuriS
-at the-tme OF che Japanese war, he
--receiyed in commissions from raw
..sprad contractors more than a million
zsiolfars. Such was his influence. how,
.aver that he was able TO stave on
prosecution until few weeks ago.
II was shown at the trial that he
thought at fancy prices thousands or
~decrepit horses which died shortly
after delivery. On one occasion he
maid transport contractors fzSH-Per
-pood for carrying-safr TO point where
at could ue purchas ed-fn the open mar
lsket ae-So cents~a pood. Food con-
--tractors in the generals ring custom
,,ritS-peaeiVaa -pEtsss- threa~ time s.-as
hieh as those who refused to come
across, and he even threatened some
of the latter with deportation.
= VIENNA. Nov. 13..Forgiven by ner
"father, Count Surenyi, Hungarian min
sister of agriculture, the beautiful
,'.young Countess Marie Elizabeth has
-.returned home with her husband, Al
.,.bert Bader, son OF an ex-Austrian con-
...sul- seasral-ia Egypt with whom she
...recently eloped under 1. dramatic cir
..,cum stanceR
The countess parents had arranged
for her marriage with a Hungarian
cavalry officer, and when she refused
they sent her to a convent. Here,
despite the watchfulness OF the sis
tiers, she managed to get into com.
"munication with her lover and escaped
%by night. climbing a high wall and
subsequently conceaiing herself In the
neighboring forest until she could
.-make her way unobserved TO Munich.
There she met young Bader- They
went TO London, were married, and
wired. the. naws, TO the count. :
!. PARIS, Nov 13.-Armand Legerand.
...taxicab driver. is convinced that the
fellow who invented the aphorism
about honesty being the best policy,
was q theorist pure and simple.
The other day a passenger LETT in
his cab negotiable securities worth
"'y4o,O 900 Discovering the bundle, Ar
"Smand raced at top speed through
the streets to catch hts Stare" at the
Care de Lyons, during the--trip re-
. ceiying two sun,monses from police
. men Cor eveNspeading. He located
lt,ef h<air n
|. s-4rain and who aenerouslY rewarded
him with dollar Armand then went
/. TO thu police station to pay his $40
. worth of fines.
LONDON. Nov. 1S-Premier As
. quith Is being made the target of con
/. siderable. raillery-hy. the Tory press
. becs,se of his reference in a recent
. note 90 the French premier TO my
government" instead OF his males
. tvs government" 80,
..Hitherto no officer OF state has pre-
sumed to make use OF the possessiye
case in such connection, the express
sion, my goyernnment being the ex.
elusive prerogative Of the king. Folks
are wondering whether the premier Is
purDOSely introducing III lhuONollOh
Sf ~hetffef he-merefy- biundered.
; BERLIN, Nov. 13.-In a row In
cafe at Iserlohn, Russian nobleman
named Kubli Won Rettstall received a
box on the ears from one OF the par
Elephants. After the disturbance had
snbsjdsd, -ths Russian tried 10 ascer-.
tain who HIT him, but. none would ad-.
init the offense. |
Next day. he--yas- found dead from
cyanide poisoning in his lodgings. A,
note explained that being a Russian
aobleman, he could not bear the hui
initiation OF having his ears boxed. |
without calling the aggressor to ac'l
count. AS this had proved impossible
death was his only recourse. -,
PARIS Now l37--Another gang Of
. motorcar bandits is operating in the
. outlying districts. Of Paris, Several
cafes and shops- haYe--been burglar
lied. the bandits carving OF their
booty in a 40-horsepower machine.
II has been learned that they are
using a small boy. who like Oliver
Twist. rs Showed through -nores made
IN the Windows; md then "opens the
doors Tor his masters. Threatening
-tetters sent 20 the chief OF detectives
indicate that. they-are desperadoes--of
tire Bonhet-type, .,,.--...