TRAPPING A REVOLUTIONARY.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11562, 19 May 1905, Page 5

TRAPPING A REVOLUTIONARY.

Describing the spy system in Russia, the St. James' Budget says that revolutionary epics occasionally find their way into the police. Such a one was Klietochnikoff. At first they employed him as a mere prowler of the streets; but this was not the work he wanted. Ho said to his chief, "I am short-sighted; it is no use expecting me to recognise people in the street, I write a good hand ; give me some copying to do." Documents of no importance were given to him; he worked assiduously, and little by little obtained sight and knowledge of papers of supreme value by copying for a lazy colleague. By and by the deepest secrets' of the Third Section were Klietochinkoff's, and from him they passed to the leaders of the party. Thus it was known who was being most closely watched, who was next to be arrested, who were the real and formidable agents of th© police, and so forth. But the arch-«py fell in his turn. Barannikoff was to be arrested, and Klietochnikoff went at night to his house to bid him pack and fly. The house was quiet, the safety signal in the window, and the Nihilist gave the knock that he knew would admit him. The door was opened by a colonel of gendarmes. Barannikoff had been -seized the day before, and the police were in, ambush for Klietochnikoff.