A GREAT ASSASSIN.
TRACKED DOWN AT FRANKFURT [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHvj (Received August 20, 12.4 b a.m.) PARIS, Aug. 19. The “Matin*’ prints M. Bourtreff’s account of a meeting with Eugene -Azeff (formerly Russian Chief of Police) at Frankfurt- last Thursday. Bourtzeff previously unmasked Azeff and for long attempted to rediscover and finally tracked liiny down and forced him to grant an interview under a promise not to betray him. Azeff stated’that he had been living alone for three years. He had been obliged to betray some revolutionary plots to the Russian police, but the blind confidence of the police enabled him to carry out assasinations, including those of the Russian Minister Depletive, the Grand Duke Serge, and Admiral Dnbassoff. He felt- the greatest remorse at revealing the name of Mdlle. Rasputina to General Gera.simoff in 1908. She and fire others were hanged. Azeff stated that he desired to be tried by revolutionaries, and he was willing to commit suicide if he were found’guilty.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3606, 20 August 1912, Page 5
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164A GREAT ASSASSIN. Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3606, 20 August 1912, Page 5
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