Evening star., 1925-01-12
PLOT AGAINST CAR
AMAZES MOSCOW
0kIadski, Accused of Be.
trayiEg AIexander's SIayerS,
Faces Death Sentence.
nr the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, January 12.-AmaZing
revelations of ASA ssinationS, plots.
intrigues and terroristic acts against
Alexander II and his ministers were
made today at the trial of Ivan
Okladski, who, after nearly As years,
Is charged with having turned traitor
and betrayed his accomplices In that
notorious murder which shocked two
continents.
The prisoner who is s. years old,
appeared in court guarded by four
armed soldiers. He was infirm and
dressed in rags.
The Bolshevik government accuses
Okladski of assisting the cZartst
police in the determination of the
notorious organization known as
Naarodnaya Volio CPeoples F'reedom),
which set out to win the liberation
of the Russian people from the czar-
ist oligarchy. He is held partly re-
sponsble for the failure of the rev
olutionists to accomplish their pur-
pose until the Bolshevik upheaval
in 1917.
Protests Being Filmed.
Today when the court asked the
prisoner to stand uD. a battery OF
IlONllS plSlbIC
confronted him.
II am not a great man." he pro-
tested. II don't wish to be filmed
/ am not a hero"
But the camera men did not heed
his plea, for the communists desired
the pictures for propaganda purposes
The trial is being held in the
largest hall In Moscow, the same
building in which Lenin's body lay in
state. The judges bench, the pris-
oners' enclosure and the attorneys
tables are arranged on huge thea
trical stage draped in the revolution
airy red.
Nikolai krylenko, Soviet Russia's
most ruthless prosecutor and the ter
ror of all who offend against reyolu-
tionary principles, will demand the
forfeiture of Okladskrs life. 1t is
said that the prisoner undoubtedly
will be sentenced to death. but that
this sentence probably viii later be
comnluted, owing to his age.
Veteran Radicals Present.
Among the thousands Of spectators
who are attending the trial are
dozen or more white-haired revolu-
tiouiStS. and anarchists of the, 1880
period who tried, with Okladski TO
assaSsinate the czar and who were
later betrayed by the prisoner They
are principal witnesses against him.
Okladski 1t is said, was personally
responsible for several attempts upon
the life OF Alexander II. He admitted
having mined the Winter palace in
1875 when an explosion destroyed the
cars dining room, but did not harm
the car He also confessed to hav-
ing mined the railroad track at
EkAterinoulav where the cars train
was scheduled to pass. In this in
~, i
because of defect in the electric
wiring of the bomb.
Undaunted by two failures, Okladski
Is declared to have placed a huge guam
uty of dynamite under one of the Petro-
grade bridges over which the Gar
passed en- route to a military parade.
This attempt proved equally abortive.
The prisoner then is said to have under
taken the manufacture of high explosive
bombs and dynamite. a quantity of
which was used year later in the as
sassination Of Alexander II.
Confessed His Guilt.
When arrested and tried for this
crime, the government charges, Oklad-
ski confessed his guilt and betrayed his
accomplices most of whom were execut-
ed or exiled. This led to the collapse
of the terroristic organization. which
in turn led to the establishment of the
blackeSt revolutionary period in Rus
sian history.
According to the prisoner. it was un-
der the threat of torture and death that
he was forced 10 give the authorities
Information regarding the anarchistic
organization and his associates So
great were OkladSki's services regarded
by the czarist government, 1t is claimed,
that it not only pardoned him. but gave
him a large salary and elevated him
from the rank of an ordinary peasant
TO that af hereditary noble. For near
" 40 years he is said to have worked
as q spy for the czarist regime, operat-
ing under various names.
Krylenko is trying to establish the
fact that the prisoner. all the time that
he was supposed to be a leading revo-
iUtionist and anarchist, was really act
ing as an agent of the czarist police,
and for this reason many OF the plots
against Alexander II failed.
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