New Britain herald., 1916-05-12
UPRISING IS PENDING
 IN RUSSIAN COURT
Plots and CounterplotS Fill Air,
 According to Reports

] New York, May 12-The report re- 1 ceived yesterday by wireless from l Berlin through the Overseas News Agency that Gregory Rasputin the 1 Russian monk, who is reputed to have wielded a powerful mystic in | fluence over Emperor Nicholas, has 1 been assassinated. is coincident with 1 the receipt here by the Associated Press of mail advices fro mits cor respondent at Christiania Norway. disclosing details of a plot to murder Rasputin. They were revealed bv Heliodorus, the Mad Monk of Tsar~ itsyn,' a fantastic leader of the mass
 es of the Volga region, who has figur-
 ed prominently in the Rasputin case
 It is disclosed that Heliodorus, who
 disappeared from Russia some time
 ago, is now a refuse in Christiania
 Although once on the best or terms
 with Rasputin, he finally turned
 against him and undertook to warn
 the imperial court of this dangerous
 fiend.' The result of this attack on
 the Emperor's favorite was that Hel-
 iodorus himself was cast into a mon
 astery prison from which he was re-
 leased only after having renounced
 the profession of a monk. In order
 to escape further persecution, he
 escaped to Sweden in a woman's garb
 in August, 1914.
 According to Heliodorus, repre- sentative of tn eRussian minister of the interior, Khvostoff, arrived in Christiania late in January of this year with the proposal that Heliodor- us became party to a conspiracy to assassinate the Emperor's mystic monk. KhvOstOff'S envoy is said to have brought to the information that Rasputin was working for a separ- ate peace between Germany and Rus | sia, and being Brought by wealthy 1 Jews, had secured for the Jews great { contracts on supplies for the army It was also reported that Rasputin 1 had opposed Khvostoff and that the | latter as well as other members of l the cabinet were like chessmen in the l hands of the monk.
 Heliodorus, desiring to learn the 1 whole plot, posed as willing to enter | the conspiracy and signed a con- tract to engage a band of murderers ] for 60,000 rubes. One of the ladies in waiting at the court was to be | a party to the conspiracy and give 1 the signal by telephone for him to come to the court. An automobile was to be in readiness for hi into make an escape as soon as he had 1 seen that his hired murderers had 1 executed the plot. It was a part of the bargin, it is declared, by Telio- 1orus that, Minister Khvostoff would 1 arrange after the murder to obtain 1 m amnesty so that Heliodorus could l 'eturn to Russia. z Heliodorus, however, decided to ! 'eVeal the whole affair to the court md Duma and he sent his wife with 1 ] written account of the plot to ! Petrograd, where she succeeded in ] delivering it to the Empress. The l alter sent word that she had already known the details of the affair It seems that the mistress of Rschje- risky, the agent who had been sent % Christiania by Minister Khvostoff, lad betrayed the conspiracy.
 Minister Khvostoff was forced to 'esigr, but, according to Heliodorur who had laid the whole story bare % the Norwegian public. the condi- ion at the imperial court is such hat nothing but a revolution can lear the air