Show J j mm 0CA1 vfiy Barton George - a ’ The Clue oFthe Bdimhoo Ocanes ' rr- t ' Episode in the Life of General Trepoff Chief or Police of StPetersburrf An COPYRIGHT 1911 BYVGCHAPMAN V ETECTIVE The response of Trepoff to this bit of news was characteristic: “Arrest every man of them and bring them before me” His Instructions were carried out Some fourteen to the letter men were rounded up and brought to the central police headquarters for examination but They were examined nothing of any Importance was found on their persons Then the canes were taken and carefully scrutinized This search brought rich results Every one of the sticks proved to be hollow and each one contained a sheet of lice tissue paper on which was printed a call for a meeting of revolutionists It for the purpose of demanding was the biggest haul 'that Trepoff had satisfaction of General Trepoft for his made In many months The evidence In a men the ordering were enemies of political pris- proved that tyranny oner named Bogollnbuss to be flogged the government It did more than disfor a slight breach of prison that— it paved the way to another disIt seems that for years she covery which bore directly on the myscipline had been nursing a grievance against terious explosion of February 6 1880 the chief of police She believed that One of the prisoners being put to torshe was to be the instrument by which ture revealed the names of several of Trepoft was to be removed from his his associates Her life it Is asserted was position One of these was a certain Victor an apprenticeship for one thing — the Chalturin He was the son of a peaskilling of the czar’s chief of police ant a very energetic agitator and an At the age of seventeen she had been experienced organizer of associations arrested and kept In prison tor two of malcontents The police visited his years because she had received letters rooms and made a thorough search of protection In October After that she the premises 1879 a carpenter car- from a revolutionist A number Of books and as a school passed an examination on the shelves and found rying his box of tools on his shoulder pamphlets teacher and was working at book bind- In closets Indicated that he was a appeared at one of the basement doors At the end of 1876 she returned man with Nihillstlo tendencies That of the palace and said that he had ing been sent to assist in making some re- to St Petersburg Her experience had In Itself while interesting 'was not On the very Important her for the deed pairs to the drying rooms of the czar's prepared The searchers conwinter residence He was admitted morning In question she presented him tinued at work and finally came to a without question- - and within an hour with a paper and while he was readwith locked doors cabinet It was hnd was at work with 6ther mechanics In ing It fired her revolver then es- broken open and In a secret drawer the lower part of the great building caped they found a blue print of the plans of The foreman of that section came It was soon after this that the czar the winter palace It was worn and He noticed a new called upon Trepoft promoted him to frayed at the edges as though It had lounging along 'face among the men He stopped and the position of counsellor of Btat0ind been carried In someone’s pocket for said: then charged him with the commisa long while Most significant of all sion of capturing and punishing “What Is your name?" the the lines Indicating the great dining man or men who were guilty of the hall were marked with a cross These “Sergay Batyschkoff” “Who sent yoii here?” outrage In the winter palace facts were promptly communicated to "My employer—" Trepoft was a man of remarkable Trepoff and he sent out a description giving the name of a cabinet maker capacity' He was burly In form but of Chalturin to every police official In The foreman shrugged his Bhoulders singularly nimble In thought He had the Russian empire the cunning of the fox with the paImpatiently While awaiting reports from his sub“That is Irregular I am tired of tience and persistence of a ordinates the energetic chief of police having men put on me In this way" It was a hunting dog A number of made another discovery were men The new carpenter held out his arrested on suspicion That slip of paper which- was found In the was necessary hands pleadingly It seems to be the basement of the Imperial palace On “I'm sorry” ne said "but I need tne practice of the police in all countries it was written these words: work badly — please overlook the Ir- to arrest somebody at some time in Now Is “Do not delay any longer ' connection with every crime that is the time to act" ' ii regularity this time” If the person Afterwards Some bits of paper corresponding "Very well" was the gruff response committed can' prove his innocence all Is well with the material on which this was “but this will be the last” So his name was entered with the but in the meantime there Is a feeling were found In Chalturln’s inscribed that the police have been alert and room The case against him appeared other mechanics and that act had In their power have done everything to be complete consequences It was In March On the 6th of February 1880 the to capture the criminal' But In this 1882 — over two years after the explosion occurred — that the ciief culprit was taken into custody Ha was given a speedy trial and on the 22H of March of that year was executed and it was then and then only that he was recognized as the man who had Introduced himself as a carpenter In the winter palace The testimony which was brought out at the trial of Chalturin gave the authorities some idea of the marvel- palace at St Petersburg is one of the larg est buildings Ip the world There was a time It Is averred when the wonderful structure housed several thousand persons Noblemen attendants servants and employes of all kinds came and went In swarms was lax The discipline Scores of soldiers detectives policemen and secret service officials were employed to guard the person of the czar but their very numbers helped to make them a menace rather than a HE winter PIPS called SHEFPED He? PEWVffim THEt Eschped j V ' ous THE OUT MS PimiHGLY czar had arranged a splendid dinner In honor of the Prince of Bulgaria It was a state affair and all of the details were planned on a scale of with the grandeur commensurate greatness of the Russian empire Five minutes before the royal guests had assembled in the state dining room there was a dynamite explosion In the The mine had been Imperial palace set In the basement and the explosion pierced the two stone floors and made a gap ten feet long and six feet wide in the dining hall In which the table bad already been laid for the dinner The explosion killed five men of the police guard and injured others The Instance those who were acquainted with the redoubtable knew Trepoff A dozen or that he was not satisfied more men who were placed in confinement immediately after the explosion might or might not be guilty but Trepoff knew In his own mind that he had not captured any of the principals The months lengthened Into a year and still he had not run across the person who was guilty of this great outrage But the case was never out of bis mind day or night and scarcely a week passed by that he did not Invent some new scheme for bringing the guilty man to justice From time to time persons were arrested for minor political offences and In these Instances he closely scrutinized th9 evidence In order to form some connecting link with the affair of the explosion at the winter palace pregreatest consternation The czar of course realized vailed that the Nihilists had been at work but be was terrified to think that they had gained entrance Into the palace and that the explosion which had just oneOne morning of the secret taken place was Intended to encompass his death as well as that of the agents informed him that §’ number of men had been seen In' the vicinity of members of the royal family winter case the in seemed this palace The conspiracy carrying bamboo Alcanes That In itself did not seem to be widespread and most on the eve of the explosion in like a very extraordinary proceeding the winter palace a woman visited but the fact that a number of persons General Trepoff the chief of the St carried the same sort of walking stick Petersburg police She said her name made It sufficiently Interesting to be was Vera Zassullc and that she had worthy of report to the chief of po Ingenuity and wonderful perse- verance of the Nihilists Just prior to the explosion In the winter palace they had organized their forces under of “The Will of the People" the title and at once began to Issue proclamations and pamphlets in order to swell their numbers and strengthen their cause In January 1880 their secret printing presses were discovered and seized by the police and numerous arrests were made In spite of this they managed to Issue on the 26th of January a program In which they declared that unless the government granted constitutional rights the czar must die The result of this was fresh arrests banishments to Siberia for some and death on the scaffold for ' others It was at this stage of the game that the Nihilists planned their most darIt was to blow up the ing program Its execuemperor In his own palace tion as has already been stated was who was undertaken by Chalturin young and fervent and filled with an exaggerated sense of his own wrongs and the wrongs of the people He was a clever cabinet maker and this enabled him under the assumed name of Batyschkoff to obtain a situation as a carpenter In the Imperial palace He ascertained that the emperor’s dinroom was above the cellar In which ing the carpenters were at work although between It and the cellar there was a guard room used by the sentinel! of Chalturin lived In vhe the palace palace for nearly four months rind every night he used a package of dy for his pillow A gendarme hiad been Installed In the carpenter’s cellSar shortly after he began to work thete and this made the Introduction of the dynamite exceedingly difficult and cidentally had delayed the execution I of the plot for many months It became generally known during the Invert'gntlon in this case that tlo winter palace for years had been t refuge for Vagabond workmen frlen of the servants and others Many o these were without a passport ami cOuld not have lived anywhere else It seems that there ii with Impunity an old law which gives the right o sanctuary so far as the police arc concerned to criminals taking refuge in the imperial palace Naturally the greatest disorder prevailed there Diswas at a low ebb and the Incipline troductlon was after all not such a difficult matter In spite of this laxity the authorities 'were puzzled to know how the dynamite came to be smuggled into the basement of the palace under the very nose of the police One of the numerous prisoners who were arrested for the crime laughed airily when questioned about this phase pf the conspiracy “It was easy” be said “as easy as Jreathing" “Did Chalturin carry it with him?’4 “Not at all That plight have been fatal to our plans At least a dozen men assisted in the delivery of the dynamite and had any one of them been arrested the other eleven wduld have remained to have carried out the ' ' program” “But what sort of men were they?” “Just ordinary kind of men The sort thgt would not be noticed in a crowd For instance the fact that a baker handed a couple of rolls to Chalturin would excite no comment and yet these innocent bits of bread might have contained of all the dynamite smuggled to the palace Some of it was hidden In carpenter’s tools some id the lining of workingmen’s caps But why The men who plan great go further? things must possess great Ingenuity as well as great courage” But to get back to the narrative Chalturin said that while he was In the basement of the palace he suffered frightfully from headaches which were caused by the poisonous exhalations of the nitroglycerine on which he rested every night When the first of February arrived fifty kilogrammes of dynamite had been Introduced and the counterfeit carpenter was now In a position to go ahead with his deadly ’ work He hesitated at the last moment He felt but It was too late to retreat that In any event his own life was imIf he accomplished the dasperiled tardly plot he would be executed by the government if he refused to do so he was likely to be assassinated by his associates While he was still in a state of uncertainty he' received letter from' the executive committee telling him to 'delay no longer but to fire the dynamite In the excitement that ensued Chalturin escaped and left St Petersburg but In the efid as already related he was caught in the vast net spread by Trepoff and suffered death as the penalty of his great crime Why Not? "Munyon says that death before the age of 100 years is reached Is suicide” “That's good news I guess I’ll live to be a hundred’’ “You guess you will?” f I "Sure My relatives won’t care ain't got any money" — Houston Post Adding Insult to Injury First Hen — Stopped laying? Second Hen— Yes they expect us to lift the mortgage for the auto that runs over us — Harper’s Bazar CONTRASTS IN THE HOME the trial about T It could not he a real home when the Reading of the Homes of Antiquity children had no rights which the 8hould Make Us Complaisant Our father and mother were bound to reOwn Homes spect A defective or girl baby was usually exposed or abandoned or killed (Copyrighted by J S Klrtley) when the father was away “Hello Central give me heaven!" Sometimes That Is what the young man said when the mother would he too to kill the child and would abandon he Installed the new telephone lh the study and wanted to test It At once it The abandoned children were usuthey connected him with his home and ally left at Velabrum near tije city would he found the Instrument working to his and those who were childless Intense satisfaction Anti he had been sometimes watch for the castaways pick hut one and adopt it The rest 'of married several years at that The general level of the American them went to the witches or the slave home is pretty high If we may Judge dealers or wild beast or birds of prey by the external signs of comfort — the That same wise and noble Seneca said average quality of the houses foods it was not anger but reason to thus that come from all over the world separate the useless from thq sound If good clothes schools for children with we were hunting for a home in Greece text books furnished free In many we would not fare any better even places large' and attractive parks for where esthetic and intellectual culture recreation or better still open coun- was the very highest There was purity try and luxuries like the telephone in among the women of the early Geralmost all homes whether In city or mans till the Romans took them over country 'And if we Judge by the sen- but even there the wives were bought timents of orators and writers espe- and could be sold and beaten at pleascially the apostrophes of the poets we ure 0 There Is space left to speak of two may be led to Imagine that Eden Is One blooming and even booming here In facts about the American home our country the lost Paradise regained Is that It Is safeguarded by just and We certainly have a right to be some- generous laws The reason for this Is hold in what complaisant over our homes when that the people themselves we read about the homes of antiquity their deepest consciousness and conWhen Mrs Wiggs was asked if she did victions the sentiments that are essennot feel her privations she gave a good tial In the home and the legislatures long list of her blessings and asked In and courts have given them what they reply “Ain’t you proud you ain’t got were taught by the home to give a hare lip?’’ We may be proud’ ‘we are Every child Is guaranteed protection not a part of an old Roman home for against brutal treatment so is every instance To use a Hiberniclsm It woman so Is every man If he should would not be a home at all The Latins need such protection The state rehad a word for family and one for serves the right to take away any house but none for that ' something member of the family thus mistreated Another fact Is that the American which a family in a house constitutes which we call home The family with home has been the most powerful inor without children plus the bouse stitution In generating tides of patriotform something called homl a thing ism and education and In conserving the treasures of religion more easily spoken of than described It has felt Well the Romans had no word for the need of schools and under urgent that because they had no need for such home sentiments the leaders have found word to we And forth and fashion catch any- gone a educawhenever one trying to reestablish such a do- tional agencies to assist the home in The home and monstrosity its nurture of the young mestic anachronism In our land and time it Is taken In rather than the state has been the hand either by the white caps or the nursery of patriotism as mothers have blue coats or the petticoats them- taught and fathers have showed their children how to live for the land they selves It takes at least two persons to make love And religion’s mightiest work a home and in the Roman house there has been dene In aiding the home In its was only one the man' The woman sacred tacks And two very- hopeful signs encoui-agwas not a person In her own right unus One is that the psychologist der the law She could not intervene In the government of the family If has Invaded the home He Is studying one of the children wanted to get mar- the Institution as a whole and in deried her consent was not necessary tail especially mothers and boys The If her husband wanted to put her to' great International home congresb death or leave her for a ' handsomer Just held in Brussels he'ped The woman he had a right to do so with- children’s exhibit on home conditions now being prepared out legal process or prejudice Seneca by some of his men and Macaenas women in New York will friend as speaks having been married a thousand times help some The other sign is that He was certainly living up to his priv- movements are Starting In the home and ileges And Cicero the ideal orator re- for It has got as far as the mother pudiated his wife Terentia in order to escape from his creditors by using the and we have mothers’ clubs Next we must have lathers’ clubs for the study money he would get with his new wife of the Whole situation Wo have boys’ Publla and ha afterward repudiated Publla After awhile they Improved the and girls’ but no sons’ and laws a little by havlDg what they daughters’ 'Jut)" as yet These will called free marriages like come next somewhat cl’s Ljes w |