SENTENCE COMMUTED.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 528, 8 June 1909, Page 7

SENTENCE COMMUTED.

LOPUKHIN AND AZEFFj

(DT TltißOlUt'H—l'ltiifa AsmKiUTiuN-ttfrtttiacrt) ■ St. Petersburg, Juno 6. In ihe case of M. Lopulchin,. ex-chief of the Russian secret service—sentenced to fivo years' imprisonment for denouncing to tlio revolutionaries their traitorous police-paid "oonirnde" jiugenc Azeif—tho Court of Caseation has commuted the sentence to trahupßttStlflfi to a Slbohian settlement. A DEVOTED irt'lFE. (R«. June 7, 11,20 p.iih) . i St. Petersburg, Jnno 1. Madame Lopukhin will sharo her husband's life in exile. SfOLYPIN ON TERRORISM AND SPI6S. ' "SAD. DTJT INIIVITADtE." Dufihg tke debates.in the Dufflii oH the AzSIT cftse, till) KUeslan Premier, 11, StolrMn, t'Mv bated the colitoiition that Azpft" «as treacheroti'i to tliu Government in that, nftiir ncceptiliS Govormiioht secret eer.vico ■inoncy, Kc nllowed the plot to murder SI. de Plohvo to reach a successful consummation. SI. Stolypiu stated that as Aaeff's position among tho revolutionaries wns not one of influence until 1908, lie coulll neitller have plavd a liart ill the outrages of the preeedinß years nor have provonted them. The assnssinatibn of the Governor of Ufa and of M. do Plehve came within.this dategory. .Only In 190G did Azeff become tlie representative of the Ci'litral Gorii' niittee. ntid 6incd that time it lVblild be found that all attempts of the Central CoininiHeo hfttl failed. Only some autonomous indoiieUdeiit orEnliisatißnslind committed n few iiiUrders, while the plots of tho Central Colnmittco since 190G had invariably miscarried or boon discovered. , . M. Stolypiil. added that the action of if Lopukhin in receiviim Kiissian revolutionnrios Hi f,.mdoit nhil nsSUflll)* them that AzefT was n police ttseiit n'ns a breath of confidenefr wit the Stdu that tllf Government co not nl sII.IV tiiltil'nte. ■ I'lto l'reniler eoSded P "1 dhiM' the siitl.-but itifvitable, Conclusion that as lon>; tti (he rcvoltltioltnry terrol- ]•■.(• tho police spy system must also continue."