New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-04-14
sshoot Him as Mad Dog!'
Creets Cossack at Door
of Ludlow St. Prison
After Bond Plea Fails
Wife Faces Stormy
Crowd With Smile
Surety Denied on Ground
That to Assist Russian
Would BE Unpatrioiic

was locked in a cell in Ludlow Street
fail at o'clock yesterday afternoon.
The former leader Of the anti-BoI-
shevik forces in Siberia. who. in addi-
.tion TO his other troubles, is under
charges before = Senate committee of
human butchery and property pillage,
was formally arrested in the Office of
Sheriff Percival E. Nagle after he had
been surrendered by the Fidelity and
Deposit Company of Maryland, and
other surety companies had refused to
20 on his bond.
General Semenoff had been at liberty
under $4,000 bond since he was ar
rested April e. upon his arrival here
from Siberia, in a civil action brought
by the Youroveta Home and Foreign
Trade Corporation Inc, which accuses
him Of appropriating merchandise val
ued at S476,57S. for which amount the
plaintiff obtained Judgment against
him in Harbin Manchuria.
Wife Offers Jewels in Vain
Nine. Helene Semenof, beautif ul
young wife of the general, and several
Of his friends exhausted every effort
to keep him out of jail, Offering the
wife's jewels as security. The com
pshies approached, it was said. de-
chned to 90 on the bond for the same
reason that the Fidelity and Deposit
Company asked for revocation Of its
surety. NJ. NJ. Becher, attorney for the
company. said he had been instructed
by his home office to cancel the bond
On the ground that to stand sponsor
Tor one accused of the crimes with
saich General Semenotf has been
charged by American army officers
would be unpatriotic.
No prisoner taken to Ludlow Street
isil ever caused such commotion in
aa section of the lower East Side.
Js4isn observers said. Ludlow Street
~ swa arming with men. women and
Asdren as the man who spread terror
sthgoaghout Siberia was unceremoni-
oaslg hustled f. : She1tf Nagle's au-
t0no5ile INTO the prison, lamed as re-
rat for alimony dodgers.
There were mutterings of maledic-
'an when a bearded man in the throng
ngnted to Semenoff and said in Rus
be shot in the street like a mad dog"
s.Ne oemenoff, who had remained
With her husband during the hours
cHort5 we're being made to find bonds
men, followed him to the Jail in taxi
cab. She was denied admittance, and for
more than half an hour stood at the
door and faced the crowd which pressed
about her, smiling with a touch of
aflstocratic disdain in her gaze.
Mate Admitted on Second Call
Apparently unable to understand the
power tat could thus separate her
from he7 husband, Nine. Semenoff de-
parted lille behind the barred gates
the g. vas being booked. Later
~ the c,ng. accompanied by friends
she returned to the jail with food for
nor husband and was granted an hour
with him She then returned to the
Waldorf Astoria
General Semenof was assigned to
cell No. in the old red brick building.
as Russian, his age as thirty-two wears
and his occupation as that of lieu
tenant general
: Guile B. Goldin, of the firm of Clark.
Prentice & Roulstone, attorneys for
General Semenoff. who ACCOMPANIED the
prisoner to the Jail, said last night it
Vas hoped to obtain the generals early
release on bond or writ of habeas
corpus
Two other Incidents were connected
With the arrest of Semenof. Colonel
George Kroupsky, his friend. a former
attache Of the Russian Embassy. was
searched by traffic policeman at
broadway and Duane Street and found
% possess .38-caliber automatic pis-
ml The weapon was returned to him
ppnen he displayed permit signed by
Deputy Police Commissioner Cray.
winch he obtained yesterday morning
Colonel kroupsky had been pointed
out by Michael B. Eisenstein, agent OF
me Fidelity and Deposit Company,
snie' IN company with Nine. Semenoff,
saey were on their way to the Sheriff's
once where the colonel explained that
ne had obtained the pistol to protect
me Jewels which the bonding company
vas to release
II have heard of hold-up men,
A'i'ed the colonel, a tall, thin man of
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