SHADOWED.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2005, 12 March 1914, Page 6

SHADOWED.

ACROSS THREE CONTINENTS,

Eugene- Zukovsky, a Russian/' who arrived m Sydney by tho Ventura on Monday of last week, bared his back tea reporter of tho "Daily Telegraph," pointed to a score of what appeared to bo old knifo wounds, and remarked bitterly, "Those are from tho knout." Marks te bo carried throughout a lifotimo for haying given his services to tho cause of emancipation of Russia's teeming millions' of oppressed and struggling subjects. . But that is not all. Zukovsky has, ho says, beem shadowed since the time ho left Kicff; his life has been attempted on two separate occasions; and the man whom hp believes to havo been commissioned to murder him had been seen in Sydney two days previously. Tho police have taken up the matter, and Detectives O'Reilly and Soutar aro making inquiries. Tho information that tho police,have so far is that Zukovsky Las been a revolutionary since birth. He was horn in Kielf, and when a lad went to Odessa, whero he lived until about tho timo the present Russian Constitution was granted. The occasion was ono of the wildest enthusiasm, in hopes, as it were, that the glad news would be carried to the ends of tho earth.

It is a matter of history as to what followed. Tho streets We're cleared bv Cossacks and dead and dying were left in the gutters. Zukovsky arrived at Kicff a few days after thines had 'quietened down. The nieht following his return ho and six other revolutionaries wore surprised in the act of holding a meeting by a party of secret police and a dozen Cossacks. Shots were fired, four of Zukovskv's companions fell'dead, tho two others were wounded, and Zukovsky himself, in tho excitement and turmoil, managed to crawl under a great coat of cno of his dead compatriots and to secrete himself until early moruimj, when the opportunity nresented itself for escape. Half starved and weak from tho loss of blood from a-bullet-wound in tho arm. he presented himself to a sentry on. the frontier a few days later, and managed by bribery to pass into Germany'on an old peasant woman's passport. Ho wont to Bremen and learned from tho newspapers that on tho night' of tho affray an officer of the secret no'ico well known to him had been killed. It is this man's brother who'has shadowed Zukovsky ever since. Ho followed Zukovsky to London, n'eross to New York, and from there, to Chicanro, whero ho made ap attempt on his life after enticing him by means of a forged letter to a certain place. Tho Chicago pr-liro took up the case, but no trace of Zukovsky's assailant could bo found.

Another meeting took placo in San Francisco, nn'T In an affray ftufcovsky was stabbed in the hand. Then ho came to Sydney. Two days after arrival Zulcovskv's wife saw tlio man who had dogged lier husband for so Ion? standing watching her on tho Fteps di tlin General Post" Office Tho Sydnor police were acquainted with the facts of the caso, and a closo watch is now being kept.