The Washington times., 1919-09-01
Beautiful BoISheDiSt In
Black Car of Mystery
Lured Russians To Death

LONDON, Sept. 1.-None OF the
most lurid elements of sensational
melodrama are missing from the
astounding story OF the murder Of
Ardasheff, the supposed Bolshevist
but really anti-Bolshevist agent at
Stockholm, says the London Tele-
graph.
Hopeless love and abandoned prof
ligacy, crazy adventurers and treach-
erOus schemers, plot and counter-plot
eliminating in torture and murder
all the sinister accessories are heaped
round his body.
Despite the fact that Russ a6F and
Swedes- have never been other than
avoWed and free enemies, wien Pet
rograd became a shambles thousands
Of Russians, mostly Of the upper so
cial stratum, filed across to Stock
holm and settled down in the neigh
borhood OF the Swedish capital and in
the city itself.
Pistol Pointed At BolAhevIsts.
In the course Of time this watching
and waiting colony gained influence,
SO much so that Lenine and Trotzly
determined that its ramihcations
should be put an end TO- The colony.
so to speak, was a pistol pointed at
the head Of Bolshevist Russia. Es-
Pecially should its leader, DR.. .Ards-
shelf, brilliant lawyer, be removed.
So the BolsheYists commenced op-
erations by introducing agents, pos
ing as Ranti- BolsheVists, into this
rabidly ahti-Bolshevist community.
The first Bolshevist agent to be sent
across to Sweden was Cosack colonel
named Hadji-Lashet. This was a year
ago. Hadji-Lash, the refugee, out
wardly developed into a virulent anti
Bolshevist and started q newspaper in
Stockholm attacking Lenine.
Then More Appear.
Next two Russian flying corps Of
hcers, Oleg and IYor SaltseVsky, ar
rived with their young wives. This
quartet also had nothing too hard to
say Of Boisbevism. although il has
since transpired that the brothers
Saitsevsky had transferred TO the Red
Army on the fall Of Kerensky
After them came naval comman-
der named Schensnovitch. who posed
as an Iswolski THAT is, as a top
notch diplomatE and then General de
Gysser, his two student sons, George
and Louis, and his pretty seventeen
year-old daughter, - Dagmar. Fol-
lowed an American citizen named
Reginald Dehrs, and the wife OF the
former Russian consul at Tornea,
Nine. Ronkonnen.
All these Bolshevist agents quickly
became fiery disciples in the red-hot
ti-Bolshevist movement here in
Stockholm. Their names were sufti-
cient guarantee OF good faith. And
still more were to come. A business
man named Lanch arrived with "a
valet" and next a German professor
OF music. Littinger, travelling with the
young Swedish-born widow of Colonel
Potulova-the latter had committed
suicide at Tornea when the Russians
were driven from Finland.
Murder League Was Born.
Such was the secret company, des-
tined TO be merged into a murder
league-eleven men and ave women,
all Of whom are now under arrest.
ALI played their traitorous parts TO
perfection. They lived in and for
the local anti-Bolshevist movement.
and in scores OF ways got to know
its inmost plans and workings (the
that for many months 1t has been in
the habit OF intercepting letters in
cipher written by Hadji-Lashet to
Beninel.
LatterIy, the two leaders OF the
Stockholm movement. Drs. Ardasheff
and AIexandroff. had expressed the
view that the day they were all wait
ing for was close at hand. The Boil
shevist spies sent on this inforna-
tion. included in their routine intel
ligence reports. and back came the
order: Remove them now"
such Was Situation Last June.
But murder is not so lightly and
easily committed in a law-abiding
country like Sweden. And Ardasheff,
who lived in a fat in North stock
holm, was we'll on his guard. He had
always distrusted Hadji-Lashet as an
adventurer, and would have none of
his amicable advances. He knew the