A TERRORIST'S DEATH.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8317, 21 December 1906, Page 3

A TERRORIST'S DEATH.

SENSATIONAL' CAREER OF A RUSSIAN WOMAN. There has been provided a striking solution to the identity mystery of a young woman who was found dying from oxalic poisoning in Kensington Gardens, London, on 22nd September. At the inquest, which was adjourned several times, she was first identified as a Danish woman named Elsa Jensen. This was proved to be incorrect, and for a time she was believed to be a Copenhagen woman of the name of Berflina Nortensen. Again the error was discovered, and the inquest concluded without the identity of the lady being established. New evidence now reveals that the mysterious dead woman was a Russian revolutionary of the most violent and romantic type. The information was conveyed to the police by a member of the same revolutionary body as the deceased woman herself. A reporter accompanied the revolutionary agent to Inspector Blain at the police station in Hyde Park at dusk.

Inspector Blain most willingly exhibited to him the mortuary photo. of the dead woman. Immediately he exclaimed, in partly broken English, "That is she! That is Olya!" This identification was supported in three important details. The revolutionary agent volunteered information as to the dead woman's peculiarity, which absolutely clinched the indentity. He stated that Olya Angstspatzsky, alias Mrs Schomberg, had a slight flesh wound in the leg, the result of a bullet wound received when engaged in getting some comrades out of prison in Libau. The police have found on the dead woman traces of a flesh wound on the leg. The missing terrorist had a decayed tooth on the. lower jaw, and only one. The same peculiarity was possessed by the dead toly at Paddington. ■ Olya spoke German very imperfectly. So did the dead woman, "Elsa Jensen." The revolutionist has told an amazing life story of the dead woman he identified by the photo, as being that of a member of his own "Terrorist" band. "Her real name," he said "is Angstspatzsky. She was a native of Riga, in the Baltic provinces. Her father was a land-owner possessing over 1000 acres near Riga. She was expelled from school twice in Riga for the revolutionary speeches to her fellowstudents, and after repeated warnings her parents left her to her own resources. She became a telegraphist, but had to leave for the same reason."

The police gave stem evidence of their suspicion of her, and she had to flee to Moscow. In Moscow she practically starved for six months through not daring to reveal herself to the comrades there on account of the attentions of the secret police, and at length she crept back to Riga. For over two years she made herself daringlo useful by assisting in the secret landing at Riga of bombs, rifles, revolvers, ammunition, and revolutionary literature sent from London and other places. In an "off" period of these supplies she made a flying visit to help in the armed rising in the Baltic provinces, and joined- a band of Lettish peasants who for five days and five nights chased landowners across the country into Germany, burning and looting fifteen manor houses, and murdering and robbing many of the alien oppressors of the peasantry. She was terribly persecuted, and fled to Libau, where she joined a party "ordered" by the revolutionary committee there to liberate seven members of the party incarcerated in Libau prison. For three weeks the most artful wiles were adopted to get files and other instruments carried inside to the seven prisoners. They were successful. The iron bars of the windows were cut through, and the seven comrades escaped. She was pursued throughout Europe, and from Antwerp she came to London just over three months ago to join the London Central Body as a most active member. In London she first lived as "Miss' Olya" at an address in Gommercial-road, E. Later she moved to an address in New North-road, where she gave her name as "Mrs Schomberg." The Central Committee in London had Selected her to join one of a desperate party of three with "orders" to assassinate by bomb General Solohub, the Governor of Riga. ' That was about a month ago, and she was presumed to have left London with the other two oh 'the terrible mission. The actual attempt on the life of General Solohub took place on a Sunday three weeks ago. The terrorist agent, Alexi, who was sent from London to assist in the asasssination, was arrested in' Riga, and shot, by order of court-martial, within 24 hours. Olya was known by the London Central Committee to have accompanied Alexi ! and his companion immediately the pair arrived in' Riga. She could not face the revolutionaries in London again. She dared not go back to Russia, or even-leaye England. She changed her name, once-more destroyed all traces of her identity, beyond her own features, and quietly strolled into Kensington Gardens and ; ended her life by drinking a dose of oxalic