IMAGINARY PLOTS.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12765, 11 April 1910, Page 1

IMAGINARY PLOTS.

Sentence of four years 'imprisonment was-passed at Kharkoff recently on a former police inspector of tho town of Lubny, named Lafovsky, who was charged with concocting a series of imaginary plots iv order to advance in tho service.

Iv the spring of 1908 Lagovsky be- ' gan by pretending to discover that an attempt was being prepared on the life of M. Manjcllsky, the examining magistrate at Lubny, who had been entrusted with especially important aifairs, a~nd falsely related how he had overheard two students (whose names j he gave) discussing projected attempts on tlio life of M. Manjeffsky and .the superintendent, and of a meeting at ' which lots would he drawn to <l©Sig«nate the perpetrators. ... The house of tho father of ono oi ! the lads was searched, and a number of documents placed there by Lagovi sky and couched in the most melodraI matic and blood-thirsty language were discovered. . Lagovsky, however, surpassed Ins previous efforts by shooting himself in the arm, inflicting a skin wound, and then concocting a story of how a certain Jew had tired on him, and had succeeded in escaping by climbing a wall. „ , , Suspicion was first excited against Lagovsky when it was seen that all the papers connected with the case were in the same handwriting. Moreover, conclusive evidence was produced that the wound in his arm must have been self-inflicted— the only conceivable alternative being that an assailant had approached him from the back and shot downwards over his shoulder. Proceedings were then taken against Lagovsky. His apartments were searched, and the authorities discovered a Mannlicher carbine, whieli was evidently the weapon with which ho had shot himself.