Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-09-28
BY It, COL. SERGIUS CYON.
Written for Universal Service.

Stockholm, Sept. Ill am able
to give some inside information con-
corning the murders In Stockholm
OF the Journalist Levy, the engineer
Calve and >the advocate Ardasheff,
all former agents of the bolsheviki
by the group of assassins now under
arrest.
The leader Of the gang was Ma
homet Bella Hadjetlashe Sagnaske.
He called himself a colonel of Cos
sacks, and was formerly editor in
stockholme of a "pogrom" paper,
the Russian Echo, which made a
pretense of being anti-bolshevik.
Men All Russians.
All the members of the gang were
Russians, and all pleaded political
motives for their crimes. But as all
three victims were rich men and
there is evidence that robbery
played no small part as motive for
the deed, | venture to say that when
all the facts become known these
murders will rank with the most
sensational crimes of recent years.
l will recapittlate briefly some of
the astounding features of the case.
On July 5 M. Ardasheff had ar
ranged to meet at dinner a man call
ing himself Isvolsky, who was bring
ing with him his two sisters on the
pretense that they wanted to get
girl into the Russian school here,
where Ardasheff enjoyed some Unfit
ence.
Lured to His Death.
Half an hour before the time ap-
pointed for the dinner a motor car
bearing two women and Isvolsky
arrived before Ardasheff's resi-
dence, but as he had not returned
home, the car withdrew and waited
around the corner. AS soon as Ar
dasheff appeared, the car was again
brought round to the front door.
After some conversation with Isvol-
sky, Ardasheff entered the car and
drove off.
From that moment Ardasheff was
never seen again. 1t has now trans
PRED that he was taken to a villa,
where Mahomet Hadjetlashe was
living as colonel of Cossacks.
There Ardashef was kept in confne-
ment until the following day, when
self-appointed tribunal, of which
five members were women, con-
demned him to death.
Victim Is Strangled.
The sentence was carried out on
the spot, Hadjetlashe simply strang-
ling his victim. The body was then
thrown into the sea, probably in a
sack weighted with stones, for it has
not been recovered.
Nicholas Ardalionovish Ardasheff
was Russian lawyer, about IS years
of age. In Russia he had been edi-
tor and proprietor of ladies' paper.
mainly medium for the sale of
cosmetics and other toilet requisites.
This brought quite comfortable
revenue.
The paper was originally pub
lished in Moscow, but i'll 1917 Arda-
shelf took steps to open branch in
Petrograd. The bolshevik coup
d'etat upset his plans. Nothing
daunted, Ardasheff offered his serv-
ices to the bolsheyiki, and undertook
the organization of the technical
branch of their press.
Held Bolshevik Money.
Having won their confidence, he
Was commissioned to go to Sweden
to buy paper for them. According
to the Swedish bolshevik newspa-
per, Folkets Dagblad Politiken, he
had orders to buy paper to the
amount of about 100000.
What he did with the money is
not known. But l know somebody
who helped him to deposit about
$4,000 in one of the banks here.
Ardasheff took samples from
Sweden and, having received pass
port from Vorovsky, who at that
time posed as the soviet represent
!