The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1919-09-05
Love, Treason, Theft and Brib.
cry Figure in Sensa-
tional Story.
GIRL IS USED As LURE
offeer Once Decorated for Bravery BY
Car Believed to ee Most Unseru-
Puious Rascal In Criminal Rec
ords Of Russia.

northumberland de Gysser, sew
enteen-year-old daughter of a Russian
general. smoked many cigarettes in
her cell-and smiled.
In an adjacent cell, morose and un-
communicative, Col. Mohammed-Beck
Hadjetlache. ex-chief of Cossack reg.
lment. 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 Dazmar,
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 duel Of wits and duplicity.
Hadjetlache Is said to stand revealed
as the leader of Russian apache
gang whose sympath!es and services
swung back and forth to the side with
the most money.
The colonel established himself here
as the agent Of Nikolai 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 thu
crimes in which he elaborated will
, the girl.
Arriving here last November, tn
COssack established bolshevis
agency with corps Of agents, charged
, by the Moscow government with tn
task of destroying the counter-revolu
tionary staff by murder or KIDNAPPING
II less strenuous means failed.
Claim American involved.
On Hadjetlaches staff are said t
have been Reginald Lehr, an American
two Russian flying officers Cleg an
!, Ivor Saitsevsky, their wives, Profes
sor Littinger, German musical tutO
: whose constant companion was
handsome widow; Colonel Poulov'
!. formerly Of the Russian army, an
30 other men and women.
The colonel soon met the Russia
General De Gysser, who lived her
in exile with his two sons, Geore
: and Louis, and the schoolgirl, Dagma
- 1t was but few days until the gel
- eral and his children were enmeshe
: in the Cossack's schemes.
. Even now it is not clear to the /
y vestigators whether General De CIV
9 ser and his children were in the pay
x the bolshevists. They purpOrted
D be staunch counter-revolutionists al
"a when they joined forces with Hadjt
e lache he was temporarily ON the si'
Of the royalists-a violent detract
Of Lenine and the Moscow governme
r. that had him sent here with unlimit
re money.
re Led Two Murder Leagues.
rs The colonel established a newspap'
q. the Echo of Russia. the better
1e carry out his pretense to royalist sc
r. timents, but the police have M
Of learned that all the while he was
Id constant touch with Lenine, reporti
r. frequently the progress Of the count
er revolutionary plots.
q. At one period, the police said, Hi
Ct jetlache was the leader Of two opposi
murder leagues-the anti-revolutit
lists and the reds-each faction b.
Oh the extinction Of the other. As
side line he Is said to have dabbl
=. In robbery. and that Is where Dagn
appeared as the lure.