The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1915-06-04
TRAIlEO BY THE
RUSSIAN POLICE
Man axes Desperate Chances
to Evade Capture.

Having received an education in
practical chemistry and served as su-
perintendent in a steel works. l was
offered a large salary to take charge
OF a factory in Russia. Three years
were all l could endure in that coun-
try. and l made up my mind to quit.
Just as the train on which l left
pulled out Of the station q man came
running from the outside, jumped on
the footboard and was helped by the
guard into one of the compartments.
Opposite me sat a man. evidently in
a humble walk Of life, who watched
eagerly the one who boarded the train
and leaned out Of the window when he
was helped into the compartment
dangerous attempt" I remarked.
1.-THE fellow might have been killed."
My vis-a-vis made no reply for some
time. Then. pulling himself together.
he said:
"You do not recognize me, superin-
tendent?"
II do not"
II am one of the workmen in the
factory. l am Ivan Sviazhski."
zone Of the men who got up the re-
cent petition to the czar?"
"Yes. They are after me. That man
who boarded the train is one Of the
police. AS soon as the train stops he
will arrest me. Then there remain for
me the horrors Of Siberia"
He had known that l sympathized
with the Russian workmen-indeed,
that sympathy was n of the reasons
for my leaving Russia-and had con-
f1ded in me for this reason. l wished
l could help him. but saw no way.
would have given him my passport,
but he told me he was known to the
! police and could not pass as another
man. His plan was to risk death by
Jumping from the train as oon as II
was dark. l did not think there wal
i one chance in a hundred for him ir
this course and told him So. but failei
to move him. He said he would rather
die than suffer in Siberia and woult
make a leap which he knew would b,
almost surely fatal. He gave me tn,
address of his family and begged m,
to communicate what l knew abou
him to them.
AS soon as it was dark he climbed
out of the window and, standing OF
the footboard, babe me goodby an
walked away from the window. I sa
and thought about him till the trail
made the first stop.
There it was surrounded by the pc
lice. who had doubtless been telegraph
ed, and every passenger was examine
critically. The man they looked to
was not to be found. The police, col
Guiding that he had jumped from tn
train, gave up the search, permitte
us to proceed. and l suppose went bac
over the road to discover the result.
] knew that all the time the trai
had speeded so fast that the nan mus
have been killed, and on the way keI
thinking of his mangled body lying b
the track. l could not sleep and We
glad when morning came and "
reached the border.
At the station there I was going int
a dining room to get breakfast whe
l was stopped by a railroad hand whoI
l took for u locomotive fireman.
"Are you the American superinten'
ent?" he asked.
II suppose So" l replied, puzzled.
"Come with me-"
=. A,s,1Il~<r - oon,,nro1 20 mr. I'll,
he might have news Of the man l W.
interested in. and | followed him,
keeping some distance ahead of N
He took me a few hundred yards
the road. where stood a lOcomotiv
The engineer was cleaning his engiI
and one or two idlers were gaping
the machine. The man l had follow
glanced at them meaningly, and
knew we must wait for them to
away. When the last one had go
the fireman-for such he was-got
into the tender and whispered son
= thing to some one, l could not t
whom, for there was nothing there.
, far as l could see. but coal. Then
beckoned me to climb up and. reno
ing a lump of coal. exposed a ma
face, the face Of Ivan Sviazhski.
1t was plain to me that Sviazhs
- had walked along the footboard to t
tender. climbed over 1t and, indl
sympathetic laborers in the engine
and fireman. they had concealed b
under the coal. He had sent for r
hoping that l would furnish him W
means to go to America and find e
ployment for him when he arri'
there. placed some money In
y hands of the engineer for him and
n pointed a place Of meeting provit
s. he could get safely out of Russ'
n territory. left him still in an unce
w Portable position under the coal
a: the time had not come when he co
10 be released without too great a ris
q and after getting a breakfast l +
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