RUSSIAN VENGEANCE

Southland Times, Issue 18945, 19 May 1923, Page 7

RUSSIAN VENGEANCE

SKELETON IN A CAVE GIRL SPY LEFT’ TO DIE The skeleton of a beautiful girl spy chained to a rock and left to die of starvation has been discovered at Hotin, Bessarabia. A peasant who sought refuge from a storm in a cavern, was horror-stricken to see a human skeleton secured by chains riveted into the walls of the cavern. A notebook, half-buried by leaves, revealed the story of Russian vengeance. The girl was Magdalena Frisch, the daughter of a Jewish chemist of Petracow, Poland. She was the fiancee of the Russian airman Savro, who under her influence entered the German spy service and later became a Bolshevist spy in the armies of Denikin and Wrangel. Magdalena carried messages from Savro to the Bolshevists, in which the military disposition of Denikin and Wrangel were disclosed. Every effort was made to discover the source of the disastrous leakage, but without success until Savro was wounded while serving with Petlura. Papers were than found on the airman which revealed not only his treachery, but the part played by his fiancee. Savro was shot, but Magdalena made good her escape. She was recognised some time afterwards in the street at Hotin and kidnapped. Her captors carried her to the lonely cavern, chained her to the rock, and left her to die.