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Show Tpim II Distinguished Russian Visitor Is Guest of Commandant at. Fort, Douglas. SPENT FIVE YEARS ON .SAG HA LI EN JN PRISON Eventful Career of Former Army Officer; Flees From Russian Secret Service. Count. Alexander M". Lochwitzky of1 Los Angeles, formerly an attache of the Russian imperial household ami a retired re-tired lieutenant-colonel of tho imperial army, left for his homo -in southern California Wednesday night. Count liochwitxky has bcea in Salt hake City for several days renewing old acquaintances. acquaint-ances. Wednesday afternoon, in company com-pany with Dr. Charles G. Plummer, ho visited Fort, Douglas, where Licutenant-Colonel Licutenant-Colonel Williams and Adjutant Hliuo of the Fifteenth infantry extended him many courtesies. Count liochwitzky has had an event fill carfir. For tho heinous olfensn of (pending his own money to establish schools for peasants on his own estate in Russia, r'ou nt Lochwitzky was summarily sum-marily banished and incarcerated in a political po-litical prison on tho Island of Saghalien, north of .lapan, where he remained five years. Finally effecting his escape by bribing a Japanese sea captain, the count sought safety in Japan, where he lived during iho Russo-Japanese war. Suspected as a Spy. He was engaged as instructor at, the Japanese Imperial Military academy at Tokio. but was compelled to lfavo through fear of being hanged as a Russian Rus-sian spy. Ostentatious attentions by FTcnelt Consular attaches, who decorated deco-rated the count, struck l.ho wily Japanese Jap-anese ollieial mind as singular. Going to China, the, count was associated for a time with the British foreign oflico at Hongkong. Kspiunngo by emissaries of the liussian secret service forced him to leave the British dependency and ho sailed for San Francisco, arriving there shortly before the earthquake of 15)06. Following the disaster, he removed to Los Angeles, where he now resides. Count liOchwiUky is interested in a number of commercial enterprises and is the legal adviser and head of tho Russian colony in California, numbering number-ing about 7000 souls. He is now perfecting per-fecting arrangements for the removal to Mexico of l.ljOOO Russian emigrants, with whom he expects to establish a large colony. Count Lochwitzky will lecturo hero in tho fall. |