The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-02

{ Stockholm, Sweden. September D. ! Astounding and amazing, replete Wftt all the lUrid necessities of a melo- drama, Is the story of a band of peo- pie, who at present await trial on a charge of murder at Stockholm. Months ago hundreds of aristocrat- ic Russians fled from Petrograd. They gathered together in Sweden, exiles from their own country, fugitives from the Bolshevists, and forming themselves into a little society plotted to overthrow the terrorists. Very soon the news of the pIottings reached the ears of the Bolshevists, who deter mined to break up the society oi Russian aTistocrats which menaced them, and emissaries were sent for the purpose.
 From Petrograd, with many others came Colonel Hadji-Lashet, General de Gysser. and his two sons. who be- came students at the University, and Dagmar. the beautiful seventeen year-old daughter of the General, an American subject, and Madame ROn- I5ennen. the widow of former Rus sian official of the diplomatic service. All these people are now under arrest charged with murder.
 Posed as Friends.
 Arriving, these joined the little colony of exiles. the head of which was pr. Ardasheff, a handsome man of 36 years of age. who was possessed of considerable wealth, and was. it must be admitted. of abandoned tastes. Very quickly the new arrivals, posns as fierce anti Bolshevists. wore ad- mitted into the secret cOnclaves of the exlles. Dr. Ardasheff, was the life and soul of the band; he threw him self heartily into the work of plotting a gu inst the terrOrists, and orders were received by HadH-Lashet that the man must be murdered.
 Documents seized by the police prove conclusively that Hadji-Lasnet was in direct communication with Moscow. one document, which will be produced at the trial, has but three words written upon it. They are, Re move them now"
 Night after night the BolsheVist agents met and plotted the murder of the exiles. Hadji-Lashet. who had spent mar< years in India. and who knew the mystic powers of hynotlSm' was the arch-Couspirator. Eleven men and five we ln 1 formed the secret society of plOttsrs against the doctor.
 HadH was determined to get the doctor into his power. but for months he failed. Had he a beautiful woman fo work as a decoy he thought, know ing the doctor as he did, he might sue coed. and so with all tHre cunning of inc East he set to work. He discover ed that the profligate Ardasheff was attracted by the beautiful young daughter of General de Gysser, but the girl held herself aloof from him, but this gave him an idea he wanted, and soon his plan was formed.
 Hypnotized the Girl.
 After a consultation with his fel- lovv-pIotters he denounced Dr. Arda- sreff to General de Gysser and others as a BoIshevist. The scoundreTs next step was to obtain hynotic power over DaCrar. He soon had the girl under his control. and while under the hyp- notic spell suggested to her that she should encourage the young Russian doctor Meanwhile General de Gysser and his two sons, the latter there is good ground for believing also under hypnotic influence, convinced that the doctor was a traitor, were only too ready to do the bidding of the man who controlled their wills and actions
 General de Gysser was made to act the part of chauffeur of a mys- terious motor car, in which the beau tiful Dagmar rode, and in this car the girl was taken to the residence Of Dr .Ardasheff
 Dagmar now encouraged the man, who was obviously madly in love with her and only too willingly accompan- jed her in drives into the surrounding country in her well-appointed car.
 IIured to his Doom.
 -l, ,F rer. and HadJ-Lashet, with his ac- complices. retired from Stockholm to the beautiful little island of Bollstan- as. on Lake Norwitstien. Here the plotters rented villa, and prepared to carry out their foul work.
 Madame Ronkennen was at the time in need of funds to go to the United States, but Hadji had spent the money which had been sent from Moscow to her. Detegmined to obtain the cash. the woman threatened to ex- pose Hadji. The woman succeeded in terrifying the man to action. You shall have the money before the month is out" was his reply, and bargain was made. If madame receiv- ed the levied cash before the end of June she would keep silent.
 Hadji then made a journey to Stockholm to hurry on his plans He saw the beautiful Dagmar and her brothers, and arranged everything.
 Meanwhile day after day Dsgmar's car would draw up alongside of pr. Ardasheff's house, and the doctor, unable to resist the fascination of the charming girl who now declared her love for him, would enter the car and drive off to meet her at some secret place. Then came the last fatal day. The car arrived with a note from Dacmar. The doctor entered the car and drove off. This was the last time he was seen alive.
 On the next morning the doctors housekeeper received mysterious message. informing her that her mother. vino lives 20 miles from Stockholm, was dying. The girl hur- riedly left the flat, to find her mother well and happy, and in ignorance of the origin of the message. When she returned the place had been broken into and all the valuables stolen. For a. whole month, from July 2nd to August 1st, nothing was heard or pr. Ardasheff.
 Dramatic Arrest.
 By then Hadji-Lsshet had suddenly become a rich man, and Madame Roukonnen had applied for her pass ports for America Inquiries were m