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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXI, Issue 51, 19 April 1895, Page 15

The Russian Minister of Finance will make a large appropriation of money to promote the production of cotton in Russia. A young man named Eugona cama from Paris to London, England, laßt August, and made his homo in the Anarchist quarter. Ha appeared to be destitute. The Anarchists fed him, clothed him, and found him employment. Gradually they admitted him to their conn" 'encc. He professed their doctrines and often took part in their secret councils. By the end of November he had attended several of their secret meetings. It was then observed that the Paris police were get line: an unusual amouat of information as to the Anarchistic proceedings in London. Early in December the Anarchist leaders began to suspect Eugene. They were not sure, however, until an important docum°nt, addressed to Eugene by Commissary Andre, Third Brigade of tho Paris police, was de'ivered by mistaka to an English Anarchist. Twenty-four hours later a special meeting waa called. Eugene was invited to bo present. The moment he entered he was seize! and bound. He was kicked, cuffad, spit upon, and, with a revolver at his head and several knives at his breast, waa ordered to confess within ten minutes. Ha acknowledged that he was a trusted polico agent known as C'otin, Cuviller and Oottance. In a search of his person a bundle of police documents was found in a secret pocket. One of them was a letter from the Paris Prefecture, instructing him to watch and report in full the doings of a woman who was abcut to start from Dieppe for L mdon. When the detective bad answered all the questions ibe Anarchists cared to abk, his captors proposed to kill him. Ultimately he w»s kicked into the street with the warning that be would be killed if bo did not leave London at once. He started at once fur Paris, and, it is said, will enter the army to protect his life The London Anarchists will send pictures of him to Franca for circulation among the Anarchists of the principal cities. ___.^