Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-10-05
TOCKHOLM SCENE
|0F ASSASS|NAT!ONS
olshevist Emissaries, With
Money, Lured to Their
Deaths by Gang.
URDERERS UNDER ARREST
LEGGED Anti-Bolshevist Leader
Proves to Be Adventurer
Duping Swedish Victims.
iURDERERs UNDER ARREST
y LIEUT.-CoL. sEnGIUs CYoN.

We some inside information concern
the murder in Stockholm OF the
"a the advocate Arda-sheff. all former
cents Of the Bolsheviksts, by the
,yup OF assassinS now under arrest.
the leader OF the rang was Mahomet
.la Hadjetlashe Sai!uaskc. He called
fnsclf colonel OF Cossacks. and was
tmerly editor in stockholm Of
men made a prctense OF being anti
olshevist.
All the members Of the gang were
iss!ans, ana al plead poli,ica! mo-
ctiias We're rich men and there Is evil
/ nee that robbery played no small
.rt as motive Cor the. deed. ! venture
say that when all the facts be-
me known these murders Will rank
TN the most sensational crimes of
cent years.
! Win reca pi,ulatc briefly some OF the
itstanding features Of the case. on
. Ny 3, y. Ardashen had arranged 20
eet AT dinner a man calling himself
VcLsky. who was bringing with him
two sisters on the prctense that
ey wanted 10. get a girl into the
lssian school here. where Ards.Shcf
1oyed some influence.
Lurcd to His Death.
. Half an hour before the time APP
'tnted FOR the dinner a motor car
airing two women and Isvolsky ar
we'd before Ardashen's residence. but.
he had not returned home. the car
tn drew and waited around the cor
T. AS soon as Ardashcr appeared.
car was again brought round 10
front door. After some conversa-
d IN with lsvolsky.- Ardasheff entered
G car and drove OF
From that moment Ardaseff was
ver seen again. Il has now trans
red that he vas taken 10 a villa,
mere Mahomct Hadejetlashe wus liv-
as colone. OF Cossacks. There
the following day. when sclf-ap-
United tribunal OF which i've mem
~ were women. condemned him TO
ath.
Victim Is strnnEled.
The sentence was carried out on the
OF. Hadjetlashe simply strangling
: victim The body was then thrown
10 the SEA, probably in a sack
! sighted Win stones, for it has not
Nicholas Arda!ionovish Ardashen was
Russian lawyer. about th!rty-fve
airs OF age. In Russia he had been
?, mainly medium for tho sale OK
| smeticA and other toilet requisites.
I lis brought quite Il comfortable rev.
The paper wac originally published
! Moscow. but in 1917 Ardashef took
cps to open branch in PstroErad.
,e Bolsheyist coup d'e;at upse, his
ans Nothing dauntcd Ardashen Of
i red his services 10 the Boishcv!sts.
d undertook the organization OF the
, clinical branch Of their press.
Held Bolshevist Money.
Having won their confidence. he was
i !nntssioned TO go TO Sweden TO buy
tper for them. According 10 the
Gedish Bolshev!st newspaper. Folkets
agblad Polltikcn, ne had orders 10
~ paper TO the amount OF about
90 600
What he did with the money is not
Il iown. But / know somebody who
.lped him 10 deposit about $4,000 In
le OF the banks here;
Ardasheh took samples from S"eden
i I'D. having received passport from
ISrovgky. who at that time posed as
ie soviet representative in Stockholm.
returned with these samples 20
"a. N. Georg wfndblad, who travelled
the sam boat with Ardshef. said
AT Arda 't With two Swedish
! lends Il. b. Nelry on board AT
eIsinCfo- r,ained the whole
3,ip's ro- 81 a luxurious din
tr in tsr si in The town:
He ttt,, .'.es wiki NJ. Wind
: ad and. Says The latter. was quite
was engaged as inspector OF all
Il ire!ess stations in Russia. and was
the employ OF the Bolsheyist be
Il .nds. He did not conceal the fact
lat he was opposed to them, how
Ter. and stated his opinion that Bol-
levism would not last
While all the other passengers were
I'D up for huors at the landing stage
order to be examined. Ardasheff
,ssed through unquestioned while the
on his return journey. Ardaeher
las accompanied by two Boishevists.
mshevany and Golub. the latter act
ig chiefly as porters of bags OF gold
.das4f spent MONEY layishly in
ab3ut $4,000 n year. He told a
lend of mine. DR.. Alexandroff. that he
10 too
sipt for large sum of money which
had repaid to the Bolshevist repre-
intative Vorovsky. This shows that
rdasheff had sympathies with the
3lshevists, otherwise he would have
wen the money to the Russian am
lssador.
Creates Dissension.
i Ardasheff also entered the Union Of
Iorking Intellectuals." which I start
here in order to find work for in
,e soon showed that II was his OBJ
let to create dissension in the union.
cause. as it was, it was growing to
a strong anti, Bolshevist organiza-
o. ,,n l protested. but the others did
bt seem to see the mischief he was
! Sing so I resigned.
3lTherc were also other Indications
&,at Ardashef was keeping an eye on
,riod!cally sent reports of their do
les to the Bolshevists in Russia.
lNanomet Bella HadJetlaShc was SIM
" and adventurer lie had never
len in the war. and had no military
Ink. He had exercised his talents i'm
hris and London until these cities
ERE too hot to hold him, so he went
Petrograd 1t is difficult to trace
= Is whereab bouts during the time of
lerensky and the Bolshevists. He came
stockholm about October last.
Had Two Light o. Loves.
jHe made a great impression. giving
Inner parties, and from his dupes he
las able to borrow money to start his
liner. the Russian Echo, which, as l
I've said, expressed anti Bolshevist
intiments He made at the same
Inc. the acquaintance of two women,
ines. Potuloff and Rokonon, both
linows of Russian officers. He lived
r. some time with the former. then
fnded her over to his secretary, Et-
Tiger, and went to live with Nine.
bEonon, who owned pretty villa
Inside Stockholm. which house sub
]uuently became the scene of all the
lThe other members of the gang are
ktinger and Lers. the former a pro-
{ssed teacher Of languages and music,
IL latter the son Of IA banker, discard
\ nv his family and Of no occupa-
H.. Tho Russian officer Ganerol