TALE OF TREACHERY AND REVENGE

Evening Star, Issue 14529, 3 December 1910, Page 8

TALE OF TREACHERY AND REVENGE

Tim Berlin correspondent of the ‘.Keening ‘ Standard ’ reports that Dr Agamanoff. of Tuns (Russia), was murdered out of revenge as a traitor by the Revolutionary partv. The facts, as pi'ccd together by (lie police, show that two strangers, a man and a woman of rather distinguished, appearance. arrived at Tillis and engaged a small aparimeld in the Myskaimr .street. A ,eiv da vs after their arrival they asked that Dr Agamanoff should be summoned to give them advice', savin" that he had been recommended to them bv acmiaint;ijices in the town as an excellent doctor. Dr Agannmoli arrived, and was on the point of affixing his signature, to a prescription which he, had written, when he was attacked froin behind with a razor or a. sharp hatcher. His head was completely severed from the trunk by the force'of (he. blow. The perpetrators of the deed locked the door of llioir apartment. and disappeared. Fully twentyfour hours elapsed before Dr Again,muffs corpse was die ovot ed, and by this time the fugitives had made good their escape. In the room on the table was found a sheet, of paper bearing the inscription ; “ .-Warn arm IT condemned lo death for trencherv bv the Central Committee of the Russian Tt evolutionary party.” Further invesligations revealed the fact that D” Agamanoff, in his student, days, had belonged to the Moscow group of the Revolutionary party, and that when be was in imminent danger of being eni sled and sentenced to death, or at least lifelong exile, to Siberia. !m turned traitor to jhe can.se. and .secured Ids own salely by denouncing a. number of Ids fellow revolutionaries to the police. All of them were condemned, some to the gallows, and some to long terms of penal servitude. Dr Agamanoff remained under police protection until he had taken LLs degree, and then removed to Til'is, in the hope tbwt in this remote town he would escape the attention of the Revolutionary party. Ills hopes in this respect were futile, for his movements were traced, and his doom was pronounced hy the relentless avengers of tils be.travcd comrades.