Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1919-10-14
COSSACK CHIEF
AND GIRL IN
MURDER ORGY
Love, Treason, Theft and Brib-
cry Figure in Sensa-
tional Story.
GIRL IS USED AS LURE
Officer Once Decorated for Bravery by
Gar Believed to Be Most Unscru-
pulous Rascal in Criminal Rec
ords Of Russia.

olOChHOiin.- ue dySScf, sew
enteen-year-old daughter of 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 a Cossack reg
iment, wounded twice and decorated
personally by the car for brilliant
leadership and bravery in the war, de-
fed detectives who sought to prove
him the most INSCRIPTIONS rascal in
the criminal records of the country.
Elsewhere in the prison so members
of bolshevist gang stampeded to tell
the police what they knew concerning
the fate of men alleged to have been
lured 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 duplicity.
Hadjetlache is said to stand revealed
as the leader of a Russian apache
gang whose sympathfes and services
swung back and forth to the side with
the most money.
The colonel established himself here
as the agent of Nikoai Lenine. Soon,
however, he appears to have "sold
out" the cause of bolshevism in favor
of the royalists. 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 collaborated with
the girl.
Arriving here last November. the
Cossack established bolshevist
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
If less strenuous means failed.
Claim American Involved.
On Hadjetlaches staff are said to
have been Reginald Lehr, an American,
two Russian flying officers, Cleg and
Ivor Saitsevsky, their wives, Profess
sor Littinger. a German musical tutor
whose constant companion was a
handsome widow; Colonel Poulova,
formerly of the Russian army, and
80 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.
1t was but a few days until the gen.
eral and his children were enmeshed
in the Cossack's schemes.
Even now it Is not clear to the in
vestigators whether General De Gys-
ser and his children were In the pay of
the bolshevists. They purported to
be staunch counter-revolutionists 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 a newspaper,
the Echo of Russia, the better to
carry out his pretense to royalist sem
timents, but the police have now
learned that all the while he was in
constant touch with Lenine, 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-revolutlon-
lists and the reds-each faction bent
or the extinction of the other. AS a
side line he is said to have dabbled
in robbery, and that is where Dagmar
appeared as the lure.
Among the anti-bolshevists was the
journalist Ardasheff. who had arrived
shortly before Hadjetlache, backed by
/ twenty million rubles, to conduct a
/ propaganda bureau. 1t was Arda-
sheff's surrender to the white lights
that caused him to forget his mission.
He had the money and believed him
self beyond the hand of the Moscow
government.
n Hadjetlache really had been named
to succeed Ardasheff, and, arriving
here, found the latter turning to profit
able account what he knew about the
bolshevistic secrets by selling informa-
ton TO the antis.
Doorman lie Among Missing.
One Kalve, an ex-wrestler. doorman
at the bolshevist legation, was another
whom the colonel quickly marked for
the governments revenge. For Kalve
had turned ilformer to the Swedish
government, with the result that the
legation was expelled from the coun-
try. Just before this occurred. how
ever, the legation was looted Of ire
mendous sum In rubles and Kalve
disappeared
Hadjetlache notified Moscow of Ar
dashefrs change in allegiance and the
word came back to "extinguish" him,