, 1923-02-25

case. but stood at the door silently.
with downcast eyes. Makarov sat
down at the table. still maintaining
his self-possession and deeply alb
sorbed in his own thoughts. The con-
GLIDING lines OF his note were as fol-
low:
They have come after me, prob
ably to shoot me. I go calmly. 1t
hurts to think of you. May the Lord
protect you. Your unfortunate Papa"
Observing the sadness and tears all
about him, he even tried to Jest. He
turned to n Socillist-Revolutionist
who happened to be in h cell, and
proposed that they smoke a peace
pipe together at least before his death.
CMakarov having been Minister of
Justice during the Tsarist regime, he
had 20 prosecute the rev~olutionists.)
Then. wrapping himself In a blanket.
his fur coat he sent to the wife, the
cheaper pipe in his mouth. the better
one he had also sent home, and hav-
ing taken leave of his cellmates
quietly and s%erenely, he went out into
the corridor. erect, serious. calm, with
measured steps. We then caught a
glimpse of him crossing the yard, still
as calm and self-possessed as before;
a little later we saw him look up from
the "soul chamber'-the place from
which the victims were led to execu-
tion-and then he disappeared.
Dolgoruki also went to his death
calmly. with n careless smile playing
about his lips all the way AS for
those things which Makarov had
sorted out with such tender ARE, alas!
I doubt whether they eve reached his
family.
Then followed shootings "in oatches."
nj here those prescription lists that
had been compiled by the agents Of
Commandant Liakhin during q COM
~paratively quiet period proved useful.
The Cheka had requested from the
prison administration a list according
to that already mentioned formula pre-
scribed by observation-disclosures,
bourgeois and ministers. The admins
tration tried to have the clerks which
had been appointed from among the
prisoners themselves compile such lists.
As most OF these refused to do that
they had to use the lists made up by
men like Bortnikov, Dayanov and
Ieite.
Even Cheka Chiefs Plotting
Is Exposed by conspirator
The latter character ought to be de-
scrihcd in a fcw words. at east. Hav-
ing been in command of a Cheka de-
tachmcnt at the front under special
orders" or something Of this sort. he
decided TO get rich quick. and planned
TO rob a messenger carrying al amount
of money. But one of the men in his
detachment. with whom he had planned
the robbery. betrayed him. and. in
stead of the messenger. Leite n his
WORTHLESS found themselves confronted
by an ambuscade. There was some
shooting, and Lcite was captured and
sent 10 Moscow. The Tribunal SEN
fenced him to be shot. but a year later.
thanks to energetic denunciations and
stool pigeon work. he was set free
and appointed to n commissaryship at
the Cheka. He was already n power to
be reckoned with at the time We were
In the prison. being appointed by the
administration as monitor OF the mems
solitary confinement building, merci-
lessly robbing the inmates of their
bread, tobacco, sugar, &c. He was do
ing his best to ~instigate and provoke
the newly arrived solitary prisoners.
especially those who were prone TO
speak frankly to the "starosta," not
hnoWlnB lndI ne was not elected DN
the prisoners themselves but appointed
from above. He would &c almost every
week to the Tribunal to testify in cases
about which he extracted information
in the solitary cells under the cloak OF
his starostaship. The most important
Criminals" were confined In the soil
tary cells, and Leite was therefore or
dered to compile a list of the classes
indicated in D~zerzhinsky's order. So
he proceeded to make up a list, set
Ting personal accounts with all who
had exposed his t~reacheries or did not
are to speak to or have any dealings
with him after finding out about his
relations with the Cheka. It was as
n victim of this same Yuri Leite thai
the entomologist, Shapinsky, referred
to before, persisted.
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