A NIHILIST TRAITOR.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6162, 6 February 1882, Page 3

A NIHILIST TRAITOR.

A great stir has been made in tho Nihilist camp, St. Petersburg, by the following discovery : —

About a year ago a Jew named G. G. was denounced by some person who had a private score to settle with him, and was arrested. After he had been asked a few questions, ifc became cler he was ono of the chief membera of tho Central Revolutionary Committee. He made a clean breast of ifc, and denounced over sixty of his accomplices, and took the police to his laboratory on tho banks of the Neva, where six men were captured in the very act of manufacturing dynamite. A largo supply of explosives were found in the laboratory. As a result of this treachery several persons were sentenced, and three men were hanged on the Bth October.

A few days afterwards the authorities announced the death of G. G. The body, horribly mutilated and disfigured, was handed over to some Jewish friends, and the dead man was buried in the Isaac Cemetery. The affair made a great sensation at the time, and it was believed G. G. had been murdered in prison, either by the authorities or some avenging Nihilists.

Astonishing revelations were made to the Russian police lately. Numerous arrests were made in consequence, and the certainty with which Barahoff and his successor Kislow were evidently operating set the Nihilists at work to find out the man who was proving so destructive to them. Investigations were fruitless for a long time, but at last chance put them on the track, and their denouncer turns out to be no other than G.G., who is alive and well, and in the pay of the Russian police in New York.