El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-09-06
Girl LEADS
VICTIMS TO DEATH
AT ASSASSINS' HANDS
PLOT AND C0INTERPLOT END IN
MYSTERIOUS KILLING IN SWEDEN
Refugees From Petrograd Flee to Stockholm and Settle
Down to Orgy of Intrigue, Dissipation and Homi-
eide in Luxurious Villas of Fashionable
Neighborhood in Northern Capital

, here in Sweden On that day Dagmar
arrived at the doctors fiat in a black
motor car. She explained It was her
brothers They went away in II for
the day.
Henceforward the black car was TO
play an ever growing part IN the
drama People recall now how they
would be dining or supping with the
doctor when a black car would arrive
outside, piloted by one OF the de
] Gysser brothers. Sometimes the doc
tor would leave his guest on an
urgent excuse. on other occasions he
would tell his maid Fendla 10 order
Z the chauffeur 10 drive away Arda-
sheffs inability to resist the tempta-
I ton Of the black car TO fOrebear from
driving off in It TO meet Dagmar de
[ Gysser at some secret rendezvous, led
TO his undoing-
His Last Ride.
Ardasheffs last ride in the black
motor car vas to HadJi-Lashets villa
/ on the island OF B0llstanas- On ar
rival be was bound with rope. chained
to the wall Of the drawing room, and
left alone for rs hours without food
Z or water
On July 3. the day before Arda-
sheffs death, his houskeeper was
lured away BY a bogus message and
I his flat was rifled-
On the midnight OF the day follow
D ing his arrest a court MARTIAL OF
I twenty assembled in the room. with
the lQAA4 ana ElAAEE0EAE4 AAaG--E-4
Z in the center protesting his inno-
I cence.
/ The trial was brief. The prisoner
/ was found guilty OF treason and sen
{ fenced to death -on behalf OF the red
! tribunal" Then in crept sordic
/ finance. Hadji- Lashet announced that
I II the doctor would sign several blank
/ checks his life would be spared The
! doomed man did so. Then the Ameri-
I can. Lehrs. blindfolded and gagged
Q 7 aaHnH q
| around his neck from behind and
| slowly strangled him
The court rose. the body was placed
. in a weighted sack. put IN boat and
rowed out onto the lake Here It was
Z dropped in
Dagmar. the daughter OF Gen. de
Z GysSer, was among those present az
the court martial She is stated 70
I have been at one time in love with
I ArdashefI, but now. smoking calmly
she watched him being slowly
strangled-
It is believed that the whole Of the
de Gysser family we're genuine anti
Z Bolshevists- One third OF the members
I OF this court are supposed to have
Z been adventurers out for money and
( the remainder to have been genuine
Between July ) and July four
I checks-those signed by Ardasheff-
D were presented at Stockholm banks
and 10000 kroner drawn
Gen de Gysser. his sons and
daughter were arrested as accom-
[ plices in the murder, and among the
others is a young Russian naval Of
ficer. Lieut. Bittenbinder. son OF an
admiral who was arrested when en-
I deavoring 70 flee to Denmark
But there are other murders TO
I clear I'd. Three bodies. tied in
weighted sacks. have been found
Several OF the prisoners. suddenly
confronted with the grim remains,
1 tainted. but Hadii-Lashet simply
shrugged his shoulders
The first body was that OF Calve.
Z teh Bolshevist commercial attache at
Z the Stockholm legation His murder.
/ which was q replica OF Ardasheffs.
occurred on May q
The second body was that Of 3 Pol
I ish Jew. Lewitzki. formerly on the
staff OF the Russlzf Slovo and later On
I PEELED BY the Bolshevists from PetrO-
grad. where he lived modestly. and
arrived in Stockholm in March with
I considerable funds He STAYED at the
[ Grand Hotel where he was daily in
[ the company OF Hadji
The girl Dagmar was said TO have
! been used as 2 decoy in this case as
well Ostensibly she was teaching the
Z intended victim French Lewitzii
I drove off unsuspectingly one day IN
I teh fatal black car Later on the same
[ day in a country road he was seen
struggling IN the car with two men.
I who had GAGGED him
Whether Calve and Lewitzki were
! Rolshevists OF anti B0ishevists in the
TANGLED drama IS not yet clear
The third body IS believed to be that
OF Ardasheff.
Lieut. Rittenbinder states that many
more murders have been committed