The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1917-01-02

appear in the Journal giving true
account Of what he saw
1t was a happy day for the Amer
lean when the desired permit came
He had meanwhile been gathering
funds for corrupting prison officials
and had all he wanted. Having con-
verted a sufficient amount into Russian
money, he started for Siberia.
1t is questionable If Champlin would
have been able to make even a begin
ming had he not been favored by for
tune. Lisa's father was a trusted Off
Ger Of the car. His daughter had not
been convicted of assassination or in
tended assassination. She was In
league with revolutionists and had
been caught in suspicious actions
These facts enabled the general to OBJ
tain for his daughter a transfer to
what is called the Free Command,
which means that those confined there
live in huts instead of prisons and are
in so far their own masters.
While Champlin was being shown
over the prisons-they had been put
in the best possible shape for the in
spection-he was keeping an eye open
for his purpose. When he learned that
Lisa had been transferred to the Free
Command his heart beat high with
hope. He at once expressed a desire
to inspect this portion of the institu-
ton and was given permission to do
so. On his arrival there Lisa's cabin
was pointed out to him, and, going to
the door, he knocked. A woman keep
er answered the summons, and upon
his showing an order to inspect any
portion of the institution he was ad-
mitted. Lisa was sitting at window
sewing. She looked up at the visitor
and recognized him at once, but he
did not change countenance himself,
and she restrained hers.
Il desire to question this prisoner"
he said to the keeper, ''she being free
to tell me what | wish to know"
@The woman read his permit careful.
ly, then went into the other of the
two rooms which composed the cabin
and shut the door, Champlin, having
satisfied himself, or, rather, Lisa hav-
ing assured him, that he was not spied
upon, spoke freely in low tone. Lisa,
overwhelmed that he should have come
to Kara in her interest, seized his hand
and kissed 1t. But that time should
not be lost he proceeded at once to
question her with q view to laying a
plan for her escape.
His first query was, Can your keep
er be bribed?' Lisa told him that she
could If the bride were large enough.
If she permitted Lisa to escape, she
remaining, it would go hard with her
She must be paid for that.
Presently Champlin went into the
room where the woman was, and when
he came out he had left with her 49,
600 rubIes ($20,000, which she at once
buried under the floor of the hut For
this she was to resign her position,
stating that she desired to go to her
home in Russia.
Leaving the hut, Champlin visited
the officer in charge of the entrance
to the Kara establishment.
Colonel" he said, zone of the keep
ers in the Free Command has resigned
her position nd-desires to return with
me to Russia. | fear you may think
that | am taking a prisoner instead.
Lest you should feel bound to delay
me till the matter can be Investigated,
leave with you little present con-
tanned in this package"
The colonel took the package into
another room, examined it and found
a hundred thousand rubles. His eyes
stood out of his head, but when he
returned to Champlin he merely said:
II will not delay you.''
The next day the journalist complet-
ed his inspection, and in the morning,
just before break Of day, he drove out
of the prison yard with Lisa's keeper,
thickly yelled. AS soon as they were
out Of sight and hearing the womans
veil was thrown off, and Lisa sprang
into her spreserver's arms.
A few months later Fred Champlin
appeared among his friends in Ameri-
ca with a Russian wife. But he did
not dare tell that he had taken her
from the Free Command Of the Kara
mines. There is no extradition treaty
for political prisoners between the
United States and Russia. But both
Fred and Lisa felt easier at not pub
fishing the fact that she was wanted
In Siberia.