The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-21
NOTED CRIMINAL
 FINALLY CAPTURED
Poses as Chief of Russian Secret Police and
 Obtains Money

St. Petersburg. January 20.-tSpeciaI) )--- The general outery against the machina- ton of the Okrana or political police is tanned almost daily by fresh revelations in Russia or abroad. Just at present the newspapers are much occupied with the career of an Okhrana agent who has been arrested in Paris at the instance of the Russian embassy
 Thief, forger, backmailer and dealer in theswhite slave traffic, this man has for many years fourished on the money and authority supplsd to him by the st. Petersburg Okhrana. As youth the son Of rich merchant, he stole money and valuables from his schoolfellows. ana forged his fathers name on various fnan- cial documents. He fled abroad and found congenial employment in the foreign sec ton of the Russian secret police, being first entrusted to "observe the activity of Russian revoutionaries in Geneva.
 In 1905, however, he was laid by the heels in Switzerland on account of his at- tempts to bribe postmen to hand over 10 him letters addressed to Russian imnli- grants. He offered the postman SlOO a month but they were proof against temD-
 
 to their superors the Russian was ai- rested and expelled from the country. But his services were considered too valuable to be lost to the Okhrana. and he ob- tained successive posts in Berlin and VI. enna.
 The German and Austrian authorities discovered among other occupants he was engaged in the white slave traffic by means of spurious advertisements for chorus girls He was arrested by the Vienna police for blackmail and sentenced to several months imprisonment After doing his term he went to Paris
 In 1906 the man came to St Petersburg and proposed that he should "supervise' the revolutionaries. and to this end ob- tained some sums of money from the un- ion of the Russian people. The next few years he spent in similar undertakings abroad, and on returning to St Peters burg in 1909 gave d lurid description to his Okhrana chiefs Of vast "terroristlc plot which was being matched abroad Jy Russian emigrants He gave the names of St. Petersburg residents who, he ar firmed, were in correspondence with the alleged conspirators. The police made numerous house searches, but to no effect Nevertheless he was retained for some months longer in the foreign department Of the Okhrana.
 At the beginning of this year he visited Brussels and extracted sl000 from the Russian minister for the object of the political police" He also made the ac. quaintance of a rich Englishwoman. to whom he described himself as the chief of the Russian secret police. He got from her large sum of money and many valuables and then disappeared. The Englishwoman lodged q complaint at the Russian legation, and It was referred to the Belgian police.
 The agent was next heard of in Paris. where he was given large sums by "high placed personages temporarily stopping there" ostensiby for revealing the names of the participants in an organized great terroristic act" The Russian embassy were, however, on the qui vive. They knew of the mans past. and they secured his arrest by the Paris police. He will now be brought to trial.