Show anarchists my FAVORITE A V 0 cc E r big BROWNING GUN PLAYS P PART IN RUSSIA peculiar adoption of the late invention of john M Bro browning of ogden 1 11 f r y from froan lo 10 london adon comes the report that the anarchists the world over have baye adopted the browning pistol invented by john M browning of ogden as a weapon for carrying on their work and by gathering statistics as to the number of recent assassinations assassination in which this weapon was used the writer makes the deduction that the anarchists are directed by a central government in their criminal deeds the article which appeared in the london dally daily mall follows those who have carefully followed the recent disorders in russia or who have been brought into touch with crimes committed by anarchists recently cannot fail to be impressed by one remarkable feature e of the out rages this Is the uniformity of weapon used by the terrorists in those murders or attempted murders that have been committed during the past two years it will be noticed that wherever the afie weapon is described as a shooting outrage it has been invariably a browning pistol a peculiar weapon commonly called the colt automatic pistol to those acquainted with the use of firearms fire arms who know their ways and the peculiarity of their fire it Is very obvious that several of the russian murders were committed with this arm and anarchists as tar far distant as madrid Is ia from sti petersburg have been found in possession of this weapon until recently the type of revolver wed used has not been noticed by the correspondents but in the following cases the assassins were all found in possession of exactly the same pattern weapon count Shu ott prefect of 1 moscow shot five times with tho the browning pistol attempted assassination of the king and queen of spain moral committee this last murder and suicide with the browning outrage at the residence of 11 pin three browning pistols were found foun in the shattered cab assassination of gen mm S shot hot by a women woman with a browning from the description by tho the correspondents spon dents it Is evident that man many y others including col von eltmann altmann Elt mann gen gen kozloff Ko the burgomaster t of and hedd johns jornsson son were vic victims tinis of a similar weapon on the significance of these facts is this that it all points to a central organization to oner brain control that Is pu pulling the strings of anarchism the world over that ln ir addition to finding funds for the work Is arming the anarchists archles ts throughout the world with a weapon of a uniform pattern an organized distribution of weapons of a universal caliber firing the same ammunition gives the present disturbances throughout europe a graver importance than if they aro are ret carded ns as I 1 have always regarded them L as irresponsible acts committed commett ed by criminal lunatics As I 1 write the following routers reuters telegram has been handed to me which bears out the contention of organization hamburg tuesday aug 28 the newspapers state that besides the unknown mun man passing under the name of favart arrested here on suspicion of 0 being a russian revolution ary three other persons have been taken into custody on a similar charge and that several hundred rifle cartridges have been found in their possession as well as a number of detachable ta gunstocks gun stocks by means of which browning revolvers can be readily converted into carbines carb mes EDGAR WALLACE |