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Show COSSACK CHIEF AND GIRL IN GREAT MURDER ORGY journalist Ardnsheft, who hail arrived .shortly before Hndjetlaolie. backed by twenty million rubles, to conduct a propaganda bureau. It was Arda-sheffs Arda-sheffs surrender to the white lights, that caused him to forget his mission. He bad the money and believed himself, him-self, beyond the hand of the Moscow government. Iladjetlache really had been named to succeed Ardasheff, and, arriving here, found the latter turning to profitable profit-able account what be knew about the bolshevistic secrets by selling information informa-tion to the antis. Doorman Is Among Missing. One Kalve, an ex-wrestler, doorman fit the bolsbevist legation, was another whom the colonel quickly marked for the government's revenge. For Kalve had turned informer to the Swedish government, with the result that the legation was expelled from the country. coun-try. Just before this occurred, however, how-ever, the legation was looted of a tremendous tre-mendous sum in rubles and Kalve disappeared. Hadjetlache notified Moscow of Ar-dnsheff's Ar-dnsheff's change in allegiance and the word came back to "extinguish" him, according to the police. Then the colonel called on Dagmar. She had loved the "king of the ladles," a Ardasheff styled himself, and was furious when he deserted her. Iladjetlache Iladjet-lache played upon her fury. He also enlisted the aid of the monarchists because Ardasheff had once been openly open-ly bolshevistic. Girl Begins Her Plotting. ' Dagmar resumed her calls on Ardasheff. Arda-sheff. Frequently at night her limousine limou-sine was seen to draw up under the trees In front of his villa, until one night when he came out with her and they went riding together. He was never seen alive again. Last week a Russian living on the island of Bollstanas, wheM Hadjetlache Hadjet-lache had his villa, Informed the police of mysterious nocturnal happenings. There was a raid and 50 persons, including in-cluding the Cossack and bis young sweetheart, were lodged in jail as a result of the haul of evidence. Lebrs denied knowdedge of any wrongdoings, but others confessed that Ardasheff, after being lured to Hadjet-lache's Hadjet-lache's home, was bound and gagged for twenty-six hours, tortured and taunted and accused of treason to bol-shevism. bol-shevism. Meanwhile his home was being be-ing looted. Then Ardasheff's bonds were cut and he was "tried by a court-martial" court-martial" on a treason charge. Twenty men composed the court and their verdict ver-dict was guilty. Taken Before "Court-Martial." But the Cossack was not satisfied. He believed Ardasheff possessed a secret se-cret bank account and Intended to get It. So the journalist was offered. his life if he would sign a blank check. Ardasheff signed. Then, with a cigarette poised on her smiling lips, Dagmar had her revenge. Before her eyes a rope was thrown around Ardasheff's neck and Hadjetlache Hadjet-lache slowly strangled him to death. The police say the girl helped place Love, Treason. Theft and Bribery Brib-ery Figure in Sensational Sensa-tional Story. GIRL IS USED AS LORE Officer Once Decorated for Bravery by Czar Believed to Be Most Unscrupulous Unscru-pulous Rascal in Criminal Records Rec-ords of Russia. Stockholm. Dagmar de Gysser, seventeen-year-old daughter of a Russian general, smoked many cigarettes in her cell and smiled. In an adjacent cell, morose and uncommunicative, un-communicative, Col. Mohammed-Beck Iladjetlache, ex-thief of a Cossack regiment, reg-iment, wounded twice and decorated personally by the czar for brilliant leadership and bravery in the war, de-fled de-fled detectives who sought to prove him the most unscrupulous rascal in the criminal records of the country. Elsewhere in the prison f0 members of a bolsbevist gang stampeded to tell the police what they knew concerning the fate of men alleged to have been lured to "murder Island" by Dagmar, who is said to be the fiancee of the Cossack colonel. Reveal Workings of Gang. About these two, the police say, have revolved the machinations of bolsbevist bolsbe-vist and royalist Russian plotters engaged en-gaged In a duel of wits and duplicity. Hadjetlache Is said to stand revealed as the leader of a Russian apache gang whose sympathies and services swung back and forth to the side with the most money. The colonel established himself bore as the agent of Nikolai Lenine. Soon, however, he appears to have "sold out" the cause of bolsbevism in favor of the royalists. Next they were deserted de-serted for neutral forces. But thereafter there-after his affiliations became too mixed nnd conflicting for understanding and the police are seeking simply to know that murder and robbery were the crimes in which he collaborated with the girl. Arriving here last November, the Cossack established a bolshevist agency with a corps of agents, charged by the Moscow government with the task of destroying the counter-revolutionary staff by murder or kicriaping If less strenuous means failed. Claim American Involved. On Hadjetlache's staff, ye said to have been Reginald Lehr, an American, two Russian flying officers, Cleg and Ivor Saltsevsky, their wives, Professor Profes-sor Littlnger, a German musical tutor whose constant companion was a handsome widow; Colonel Poulova, formerly of the Russian army, and 30 other men and women. The colonel soon met the Russian Genera De Gysser, who lived here in exile with his two sons, George nnd Louis, and the schoolgirl, Dagmar. It was but a few days until the general gen-eral and his children were enmeshed In the Cossack's schemes, Even now It is not clear to the Investigators In-vestigators whether General De Gysser Gys-ser and his children were In the pay of the bolshevlsts. They purported to be staunch counter-reyoHiUoDists, and when they joined forces with Hadjetlache Hadjet-lache he was temporarily on the side of the royalists a violent detractor of Lenine and the Moscow government that had him sent here with unlimited money. the body in a sack, weight it with rocks and throw It Into the bay. When the bay was dragged by the police they recovered not only Ardasheff's Arda-sheff's body, with the cord still knotted around the neck, but two others, which were Identified as those of the wrestler Kalve and a Polish Jew named Le-witzki, Le-witzki, who was known to have been "in wrong" with the bolshevists in Petrograd because of menshevistlc writings from his pen. The police now claim to have learned that Lewltzki was taking French lessons les-sons from Dagmar, and that she lured him, as well as her ex-sweetheart, to the den of the Cossack. But while the other prisoners are signing confessions in the hope of receiving re-ceiving lenieucy, Hadjetlache, the Cossack, Cos-sack, keeps his own counsel, refusing even to deny his guilt. And Dagmar lights one cigarette after another and smiles at her jailers. Led Two Murder Leagues. The colonel established a newspaper, the Echo of Russia, the better to carry out bis pretense to royalist sentiments, sen-timents, but the police have now learned that all the while he was In constant touch with Lenine, reporting frequently the progress of the counterrevolutionary counter-revolutionary plots. At one period, the police said, Iladjetlache Ilad-jetlache was the leader of two opposing murder leagues the anti-revolutionists and t lie reds each faction bent oi. the extinction of the other. As a side line be is said to have dabbled in robbery, and that is where Dagmar appeared as the lure. Among the antl-bolshevists was the |