RUSSIAN MURDERS
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A REVOLUTIONARY UNMASKED
SENSATIONAL CONFESSIONS
(Received Last Night 9.20 o'clock.)
PARIS, August 19
The newspaper Le Matin prints M. Bourt/.aff's account of his meeting with the Russian revolutionary Azoti at Frankfurt on .ihursday layt. Bourtzeff had previously unmasked Azeff, but for a long while had been attempting to re-discover hie where-alxj'-its. Finally he tracked lam, and forced him to grant an interview, under a promise not to betray h:m. Azeff stated that he had been living alone for three years. He had been obliged to betray some of his revolutionary plots to the Russian police, but blind confidence in the police had enabled him to carry out the assassination of a number of notables, including a Russian Minister, the Grand Duke Scrger, and Admiral Dubassoff. He had felt tho greatest re morse at having revealed the name of Madame Rarputina to Genera! Gerasimoff in 1908, ay a result of which she and five otheus had been hanged. Azeff stated that he desired to be tried by revolutionaries, and said he was willing to commit suicide if found guilty.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10698, 20 August 1912, Page 5
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188RUSSIAN MURDERS Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10698, 20 August 1912, Page 5
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