The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-09-05
Love, Treason, Theft and Brib-
cry Figure in Sensa-
ti0naI Story.
GIRL IS USED AS LURE
Officer Once Decorated for Bravery by
Gar Believed to Be Most Unscru-
puIous Rascal in Criminal Rec
ords Of Russia.

observation-disclosures de Gysser, sew
enteen-year-old daughter of a Russian
general smoked many cigarettes In
her cell-and smiled.
In an adjacent cell, morose and IN
communicative. Col. Mohammed-Beck
Hadjetlache. ex-chief of a Cossack reg
iment, wounded twice and decorated
personally by the car for brilliant
leadership and bravery in the war, de-
fed detectives who sought to prove
him the most INSCRIPTIONS rascal in
the criminal records of the country.
Elsewhere in the prison 90 members
Of bolshevist gang stampeded to tell
the police what they knew concerning
the fate of men alleged TO have been
ltfred to murder island by Dagmar.
who is said TO be the fiancee of the
COsSack colonel
Reveal Workings Of Gang
About these two, the police say, have
revolved the Vaccinations of bolshe-
visit and royalist Russian plotters en-
gagged in a duel of wits and duplicity
Hadjetlache is said to stand revealed
as the leader of a Russian apache
gang whose sympathies and services
the most money.
The colonel established himself here
as the agent of Nikolai Lenine. Soon.
however. he appears to have sold
out" the cause of bolshevism in favor
of the rOyalists. Next they were de-
serted for neutral forces. But there
after his affiliations became too mixed
and conflicting for understanding and
the police are seeking simply to know
that murder and robbery were the
crimes in which he collaborated with
the girl
Arriving here last November. the
Cossack established bolshevist
agency with a corps of agents, charged
by the Moscow government with the
task of destroying the counter-revolu-
tiOnary staff by murder or kidnapping
If less strenuous means failed.
Claim American Involved.
On Hadjetlache's staff are said TO
have been Reginald Lehr, an American,
two Russian flying officers, Cleg and
IyOr Saitsevsky, their wives, Profess
sor Littinger, a German musical tutor
whose constant companion was a
handsome widow; Colonel Poulova,
formerly of the Russian army, and
80 other men and women.
The colonel soon met the Russian
General De Gysser, who lived here
In exile with his two sons, George |
and Louis, and the schoolgirl. Dsgntar. /
1t was but a few days until the gen.
eral and his children were enmeshed |
In the Cossack's schemes.
-
whether General De Gys- |
ser and his children were in the pay of |
the bolshevists. They purported to
De staunch er-revOlutioniSts, and |
when they joined forces with Hadjet-
ache he was temporarily on the side
IF the royalists-a violent detractor
If Lenine and the Moscow government !
hat had him sent here with unlimited
money.
Led Two Murder Leagues
The colonel established a newspaper,
he Echo of Russia, the better to
larry out his pretense to royalist SEN
iments but the police have now
earned that all the while he was in
constant touch with Lenine, reporting
the progress of the counter
evolutionary plots.
At one period. the police said, Had
etlache was the leader of two opposing
murder leagues-the anti-revolution-
SITS and the reds-each faction bent
" the extinction of the other. AS a
ide line he is said TO have dabbled
n robbery, and that is where Dagmar
appeared as the lure.
Among the anti-bolshevists was the