A TERRORIST-SPY

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 507, 14 May 1909, Page 5

A TERRORIST-SPY

HIS OFFICIAL BETRAYER.

A PLEA OF JUSTIFICATION. THE PAID TRAITOR WOULD HAVE , SOLD HIS . MASTER. (BT TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION—COFTEIQHT.) (Roc. May 14, 0.50 a.m.) St, Petersburg, May 13. -The trial is proceeding of M. Lopukhin, formerly chief of the Russian detectivo service, who is charged with treason, in having, undor stress of- intimidation, betrayed to the revolutionaries Eugeno Azeif (a shamrevolutionary in the pay of the secret police), thus assisting the State's , enemies. The witnesses for the proseoution mado spoeohes lauding Azoff's, services, and fiercely denouncing Lopukhin for going over to tho camp of M. do Plehvo's murderers. They branded Lopukhin ns a traitor who had destroyed the State's' sources of information concerning Terroristic plans, contrary to established customs. When Lopukhin endeavoured to' speak, the President of the Court continually interrupted hira, until accused was silenced. t Lopukhin ended by stating that the Tsar would eventually have fallen a victim to Azeff. "You may convict me," he declared, "but I acted'in tho interest of humanity." A HUMAN MONSTER. The double-dealing Eugene Azoff, the Russian secret police spy ana betrayer of tho Terrorists, fled after M. Lopukhin bad denounced him to his "comrades."- The' revolutionaries, who are hunting him. have circulated the following description' Short, round-shouldered, medium height, small hands and feet, thick short neck; round face; puffy and' yellowish; skull, narrowing upwards; straight, coarse, dark-brown hair, usually worn short; low forehead, dark eyebrows, the ends slightly raised; brown eyes, somewhat protruding; large, flat nose, prominent cheek-bones, one ear sticking opt, lips' very thick, and sensual/' After his flight Azeff was said to have been seen in London, •' ; . With regard to M.- Lopukhin's plea that Azoff would . eventually .> have allowea one. of the plots against .the Tsar to; becomo successful, it • has ; already been pointed out that 'Azoff ovidently did . not ! tell the police everything. . He'is credited, with having planned the imir-. ders of. M, do Ptahve and • the Grand Duke Sergius—both. .of -which; succeeded. At, the 1 same time, ho told the police enough to send i 1500 revolutionaries to death—-this according to i the revolutionaries' testimony—and three times j that number to living death in Siberia. I