El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-09-06

I
Il the most lurid elements OF sensa-
tionaI melodrama are missing from
the astounding story OF the murder
OF Ardasheff, the supposed Bolshe-
visit but really anti-Bolshevist agent
at Stockholm. says the London Tele-
graph
Hopeless love and abandoned prof
legacy. crazy adventures and treaeh-
erous schemers. plot and counter plot
eliminating in torture and murder
all the sinister accessories are
heaped round his body.
Despite the fact that Russians and
SWedes have never been other than
avOwed and fierce enemies when
Petrograd beanie a shambles thous-
ands OF Russians, mostly OF the upper
social stratum, lied across 10 Stock
holm and settled down in the neigh
borhoOd OF the Swedish capital and
in the city itself
In the course Of time this watching
and waiting colony gained influence,
so much that Lenine and TrOtZky de-
termined that its qualifications should
be put an end to. The colony, so to
speak. was a pistol pointed at the
head OF BOsheTist Russia Especially
should its leader, Dr. Ardasheff. a
Lenlne Acts
So the Bolshevists commenced oper-
atoms by introdue ing agents, posing
as -Bolshevists, into this rabidly
anti-Bolshevist community
The first Boshevists agent to be
sent across TO Sweden was a Cossack
/. colonel named Hadji-Lashet- This
was a year ago. Hadji-Lashet, the
refugee, outwardly developed into a
virulent anti-B olshevist and started
a newspaper in Stockholm attacking
Next two Russian flying corps off,
GERS, Oleg and Ivor Saitsevsky. ar
/. rived with their young wives This
quartette also had nothing too hard
TO say OF Bolshevisn. although Il has
since transpired that the brothers
Satisevsky had transferred to the Red
army on the fall OF Kerensky. After
them came a naval commander named
Schensnovitch, who posed as an Is
wolski chat is, as top notch diplo-
matl, and then Cen de GySser. his
two student sons, George and Louis,
and his pretty seventeen year old
daughter. Dagmar. Followed an
an American citizen named Reginald
Lehrs, and the wife OF the former
Russian COUNSEL at Tornea, Nine Ron
konnen-
Join ConspIrators.
An these BolsheTist agents quickly
became fiery disciples in the red hot
anti-Bolshevist movement here in
Stockholm. Their names were suffi-
cient guarantee OF good faith And
stin more were TO come a business
man named Lanch arrived with a
valet" and next a German professor
OF music. Iittinger. travelling with
the young Swedish born widow Of Col
Potulova-the latter had committed
suicide at Tornea when the Russians
were driven from Finland
Such was the secret company, des-
tined to be merged into a murder
league-eleven men and five women.
all Of whom are now under arrest
All 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 in
most plans and workings.
Latterly, the two leaders Of the
Stockholm movement Drs- Ardasheff
and Alexandroff. had expressed the
view that the day they were all wait
ing for was close at hand The Boil
shevist spies sent out this infOrma-
ton, included in their routine intel
ligence reports, and back came the
order, Remove them now"
But murder Is not so lightly and
easily committed in a law abiding
country like Sweden And Ardasheff,
who lived in a flat In North Stock
holm. WIS we'll on his guard. he had
always distrusted Hadji Lashez as an
adventurer. and would have none OF
his amicahle advances He knew the
dangers OF his position. such was
the situation in June last
Meanwhile Hadji-Lashet, who used
to occupy a flat with the American
Lehrs. moved out to a lonely villa on
the little wooded island Of Bollstanas,
on Lake Norwikken. This villa is
owned by Nine Lily Strindberg,
SWeden's first operate star. who is
sister OF the previously mentioned
Nine. Ronkonnen-
In Luxurious villa.
As every Swede OF means possesses
an island retreat, the move attracted
no attention. In his datcha home
Hadji-Lashet settled down with Nine
RonkOnnen and his secretary. the
German professor Ettinger. while the
young widow POtulova was engaged
as typlst. The villa was fitted out in
brightly colored. extravagant Cauca-
sian, semi Oriental style. and became
notorious among other Russians liv-
ing round about for its orgies
But orgies cost money, and soon a
second financial consideration pressed
on Had1i-Lashet to action. The
woman ROnkonnen needed funds to
90 TO America, and threatened to ex-
pose Hadji-Lashet as a Bolshevist
agent unless he helped her. Now.
Ardasheff was a wealthy man and
Hadji-Lashet knew it The latter had
thus 1.-TWO motives in removing the
dOctor-political. to suit Lenine. and
financial, to suit himself. But how to
accomplish the crime and yet escape
detection? DIT. Ardasheff must be
lured away to the only island villa.
Howl
The doctor was susceptible to
female charms Hadji-Lashet knew
that girl decOy must be found.
Hadji-Lashet settled on DaEmar de
Gysser. "a pretty. typical Russian girl
Of advanced views. who smokes all
day long
Woman Lures Victim.
One day toward the and Of June
Dagmar called, on some pretext or
other. at the doctors fiat. Then she
called again and again. Things were
going Well The doctor soon dro3~ed
in favor Of Dagmar an acquaintancs
he had formed with a Swedish e q
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