The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1919-09-05
Love, Treason, Theft and Bril-
cry Figure In Sensa-
tional 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.

Stockholm. -Dagmar de Gysser, sew
nteen-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
Hadietlache, ex-chief of a Cossack reg
iment. wounded twice and decorated
personally by the car for brilliant
leadership and bravery in the war, de-
hed detectives who sought to prove
aim the most INSCRIPTIONS rascal in
the criminal records of the country.
Elsewhere In the prison so members
Of bolshevlst gang stampeded to tell
the police what they knew concerning
the fate of men alleged to have been
mred 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 duel Of wits and duplicity.
Hadietlache 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 col0rel established himself here
ms the agent of Nikolai Lenine. Soon,
however, he appears TO have sold
out" the cause of bolshevism In favor
OF the rcyallsts. 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 bolshevlst
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
II less strenuous means failed.
Claim American Involved.
o.. Hadjetlache's staff are said to
have been Reginald Lehr, an American
two Russian flying officers, Cleg and
Iyor Saitsevsky their wives, Profess
sor I.ittlnger, German musical tutor
whose constant companion was a
handsome 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.
II was but few days until the gem
eral and his children were enmeshed
In the Cossack's schemes.
Even now 1t is not clear to the In
vestlgators whether General De Gys-
ser and his children were In the pay of
the bolshevists. They purported to
be staunch counter-revolutlonists, and
when they joined forces with Hadjet-
lache he was temporarily on the side
Of the royalists-a violent detractor
Of Lenine and the Moscow government
that had him sent here with unlimited
money.
Led Two Murder Leagues.
The colonel established newspaper,
the Echo OF Russia, the better to
carry out his pretense to royalist SEN
tlments, but the police have now
learned that all the while he was in
constant touch with Lenlne. reporting
frequently the progress Of the counter
revolutionary plots.
At one period. the police said, Had
jetlache was the leader Of two opposing
murder 'leagues-the anti-revolution-
lists and the reds-each faction bent
on the extinction Of the other. AS a
side line he is said to have dabbled
In robbery, and that is where Dagmar
appeared rs the lure.
Among the anti-bolshevists was the