TALE OF TREACHERY AND REVENGE.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 45, 4 February 1911, Page 11

TALE OF TREACHERY AND REVENGE.

The Berlin correspondent of the “Evening Standard” reports that Dr. Agamanoff of Tflis (Russia), ■was murdered out of revenge as a traitor by the Revolutionary party. The facts, as pieced together by the police, show that two strangers a man and a woman of rather distinguished appearance, arrived at Tiflis and engaged a email apart ment in the Moskauer street. A few days after their arrival they asked that Dr. Aga mono ff should be summoned to give them advice, saying that he had been recommended to them by acquaintances in the town as an excellent doctor. Dr. Agamanoff arrived, and was on the point of affixing his signature to the prescription he had written when he was attacked from behind with a razor or a sjiarp hatchet. His head was completely severed from the trunk by the force of the blow. The perpetrators of the deed locked the door of their apartment and disappeared. Fully twenty-fours hours elapsed before Dr. Agamanoff’s corpse was discovered, and by this time the fugitives had made good their escape. In the room on the table was found a sheet of paper bearthe inscription: “Agamanoff condemned to death for treachery by the Central Committe of the Russian Revolutionary party,” Further investigations revealed the fact that Dr. Agamanoff. in his student days, had belonged to the Moscow group of the Revolutionary party, and that when he was in imminent danger of being arrested and sentenced to death, or at least life-long exile to Siberia, he turned traitor to the cause, and secured his own own safety by denouncing a number of his 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 his degree, and then removed to Tiflis, in the hope that in this remote town he would escape the attention of the Revolutionary party. His hopes in this respect were futile, for his movements were traced, and his doom was pronounced by the relentless avengers of his betrayed comrades.