The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1919-09-19
Love, Treason Theft and Brib.
cry Figure in Sensa-
tional Story.
GIRL IS USED As LURE
oh'cer Once Decorated for Bravery by
Gear 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 I'M
communicative, Col. Mohammed- Beck
Hadjetlache, ex-chief of COssack reg
lment, wounded twice and decorated
personally by the car for brilliant
leadership and bravery in the war, de-
ned detectives who sought to prove
him the most INSCRIPTIONS rascal In
the criminal records of the country.
Elsewhere In the prison 80 members
or bOlshevlst gang stampeded to tell
the police what they knew concerning
the fate of men alleged to have been
iured 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 dupllcity.
Hadjetlache Is said to stand revealed
as the leader of Russian apache
gang whose sympathies and services
swung back and forth to the side with
the most money.
The colonel established himself here
as the agent Of Nikolal Lenine. Soon,
however, he appears to have sold
OUT the cause of bolshevism in favor
OF the royallsts. 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 elaborated with
the girl
Arriving here last November. the
Cossack established bolsheyist
agency with n corps Of agents, charged
by the Moscow government with the
task of destroying the counter-revolu-
tionary staff by murder or kidnapping
II 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
Ivor Saitsevsky, their wives, Profess |
sor Littinger, German musical tutor
whose constant companion was a
widow; Colonel Poulova,
formerly of the Russian army, and |
30 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, Dagmar.
IT was but few days until the gen.
eral and his children were ,enmeshed
N the COssack's schemes.
Even now 1t Is not clear to the in
whether General De Gys-
ger and his children werc In the pay of
he bolshevlsts. They purported to
'e staunch Observation-Disclosures, and
when they Joined forces with Hadjet.
ache he was temporarily on the side
II The royalists-a violent detractor
II Lenine and the Moscow government
hat had him sent here with unlimited
money.
Led Two Murder Leagues.
The colonel established newspaper
he Echo Of Russia, the better to
airy out his pretense to royalIst SEN
lments, but the police have now
earned that all the while he was in
onstant touch with Lenine, reporting
requently the progress of the counter
evolutionary plots.
AT one period. the police said, Had
'tlache was the leader of two opposing
urder leagucs-the anti-revolution-
ts and the reds-each faction bent
the extinction OF the other. As a
de line he Is said to have dabbled
robbery. and that is where Daginar
Dpeared as the lure.
Among the anti-bolshevists was the !!