"ONLY A SPY."

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1090, 31 March 1911, Page 5

"ONLY A SPY."

-H » STREET MURDER IN CEACOW. By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyrieht St. Petersburg, March 29. Two youths named Trudnowski and Sadowski have been acquitted on a chargo of shooting Herr Stanislaus Rybak, an education official, at Cracow, Galicia, on August 8 last. The prisoners declared that they had only shot a spy. As Herr Rybak, an Education Department official, was peaceably walking down a street in Cracow at two o'clock in the afternoon, a stranger approached him and cried: "I've got you at last, you spy!" On this ho shot itybak dead with a revolver. A crowd at onco gathered and attempted to lynch the murderer, but tho man said: "Don't touch me! Ho was a spy, and he caused the death or tho exile- to Siberia of hundreds!" After his arrest tho murderer said that ho did not regret his crime. lie had, he said, acted on the order of the Polish Workmen's Union at Warsaw. It has now come to light (said the "Daily Mail" correspondent in reporting the incident) that Rybak actually was a spy in the employ of the Russian police. Cracow, the ancient Sarmatian capital, "where the heart of Poland still beats," is a place of refuge for numbers of political fugitives, Polish and others, from Russia. _____^____«