BETRAYED BY HIS WIFE.

Auckland Star, Issue XXXVI, 21 October 1905, Page 13

BETRAYED BY HIS WIFE.

DRAMATIC STOKY. Particulars of the trial of Jan Kaszirzak, the famous revolutionary, have reached Berlin, says the "Morning Advertiser," from Warsaw- He was one of the most energetic leaders of the jeolish Socialist party and his career supplies a theme for a thrilling melodrama.

The revolutionary, though a man of meagre education, was an exceUent orator. In order to advance the cause at Warsaw he established a secret printing office, from which all the revolutionary literature was published. In April of last year, however, the police discovered it, and they arrived on the scene when the printers were at work. All made good their escape through the windows or by the roof, except Kaszirzak and Benedike Guraman, the son of a wealthy engineer. Kaszirzak made a desperate stand against the police, making effective use of his revolver. A captain of gendarmerie, a magistrate, and three policemen fell by his aim before he and Gurzman could be secured. in prison Kaszirzak played the madman, and was sent to the infirmary, from which he escaped, and succeeded in entering Germany. Here he took the name of Mayer, and wrote for a popular journal. Whenever the police put inconvenient questions to him he would reply, "My name is Mayer." The police, however, suspected that he was Kaszirzak, the man they sought, and in order to put their suspicions to the test they hit on the idea of taking his wife, who was ignorant of his fate, to his place of concealment. When she saw him she flung her arms round his neck and cried, "My Jan. My poor Jan!" Kaszirzak endeavoured to assume an attitude of absolute impassivity, and pushed her from him, uttering the usual words, "My name is Mayer." The wife tried to convince him that she was in reality his. wife. Suddenly it dawned, upon her that he was simulating madness, and that she had unwittingly denounced him. The poor woman fainted, and bad to be carried away.

Kaszirzak was promptly arrested, and he has just been sentenced to death. Benedike Gurzman received a sentence of 15 years' penal servitude.