Omaha daily bee., 1919-09-01
Secret Death Society
Uses l7-Year-Old Girl
to Lure Men to Doom

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He knew the dangers of his posi-.
ton. -.,
| Meanwhile, Hadji-Lashet, VIII G
used to occupy flat with the Amer,
lean, Lehrs, moved out to the lonely
villa on the little wooded island
OF Bollstanas, on Lake Norwikken
This villa is owned by Nine. Lily
Strindberg, Sweden's premier opera
star.
Expensive Orgies at Villa.
As every Swede Of means pos
sesses an island retreat, the move
attracted no attention. In his island
home Hadji-Lashet settled down
with Nine. Ronkonnen and his sec
rotary, the German professor Ell
finger, while young widow, Po-
tulova. was engaged as typist. The
villa was fitted out in brightly
colored. extravagant Caucasian,
Oriental styles and became notori-
Gus among other Russians living
round about for its orgies.
But orgies cost money, and fl
nancial consideration pressed on
Hadji-Lashet to action. DR.. Ar
dasheff must be lured away to the
lonely island villa. How?
The doctor was susceptible to fe-
male charms. Hadji-Lashet set
tied on Dagmar de Gysser.
In June she called on some pre-
text at .Ardasheff's flat and soon
the pair were very friendly. Al
most every day Dagmar would
send for the doctor in a black motor
car, which was often driven by one
of her brothers.
Sometimes Ardasheff, interrupted
in the middle of dinner or while en-
tertaining friends, would send word
for the car to 60 away, but more
often he excused himself and has
tened out to it.
Late in July the car came to fetch
him as usual and he drove away,
never to be seen again.
Force Victim to Sign Checks.
Next morning a friend received a
letter purporting to come from Ar
dasheff in which the later said he
was going away for short while
and that all was well.
Eight days ago Russian living
out on the islands told the police
of certain suspicious he had formed
as to Hadji-Lashet, who had sud-
denly grown affluent.
nr Ard \ a4'e ,,,o,J VIZ,
was taken out to the lonely villa;
there she recognized the suit Of
chauffeur's clothes as having beeen
worn by the driver of the black
car.
Those on the island were arrest
ed. Hadji-Lashet and Lehrs de-
MED all knowledge of Ardasheff's
disappearance. The remainder, ex-
amined one by one, told this story
DR.. Aradasheff was brought to
the villa in the black car. On ar
rival he was bound with rope, chain
ed to the wall of the drawing room
and left alone for twenty-six hours
without food or water.
On the midnight of the day fol-
lowing his arrest a "court-martial"
of twenty assembled in the room.
The trial was brief. The prisoner
was found guilty of treason to Le-
nine and sentenced to death. Then
Hadji-Lashet announced that if the
doctor would sign several blank
checks his life would be spared. The
doomed man did so.
Then the American Lehrs. blind
folded and gagged Ardasheff, while
Hadji-Lashet put rope around his
neck from behind and slowly
strangled him.
Body Dropped in Lake.
The court" rose, the body was
placed in a weighted sack, put in
a boat and towed out onto the lake.
Here it was dropped in.
Dagmar was present at the court
martial. She is stated to have been
at the time in love with Ardasheff,
but now, smoking calmly, she
watched him being slowly stran-
gled.
General de Gysser, his sons and
daughter were arrested as accom-
plices in the murder.
Several of the prisoners, sud-
denly confronted with the bodies
of Ardasheff and two others, faint
ed, but Hadji-Lashet shrugged his
shoulders.
The first body was that of Calve,
commercial attache at the Stock
holm legation. His murder, which
was a replica of Ardasheff's &C.
CURED on May q.
The second body was that of
Polish Jew, Lewitzki, formerly of
the staff of the Russki Slovo and
later on the Memshevist Dinch.
Expelled from Petrograd, he ar
rived in Stockholm with consider
able funds.
The girl Dagmar was said to have
been used as a decoy in this case as
we'll Ostensibly she was teaching
the intended victim French. Lew
tiki drove off unsuspectingly one
day in the fatal black car.