Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-08-22
MOVED ON.
The MisadVenfures Of q Man without
Nationality.


The Russian journals have lately been
much taken up with the troubles which
have betallen young man in consequence
OF his failure to establish his nationality.
Thirty years ago young woman, a native
OF Memel, russia. went TO St. Petersburg,
where she made the acquaintance
Of a Russian gentleman. She be-
came the mother Of a boy, who was in
due course apprenticed to a shoe
maker, by whom, however, he was i'll
treated and in Consequence ran away. His
mother then procured To- him from the
Governor General of st. Petersburg pass
port and he obtained employment upon
merchant ship trading in the Baltic. In
1868 this vessel was wrecked, and in the
disaster young Nicholas-sUch was the
boys Dame-lOst his passport. lie then
returned to his mother, who again placed
him with the shoemaker; from whom ne
again ran away, and in consequence
fell into the hands of the police. He
was kept in prison sevel weeks,
when, being adjudged to be Of the same
nationality as lis mother, he was sent over
the frontier, and hidden TO make bis Eay
10 Memel, which he was told was his legal
dOmicile. On arriving in this town be
presented himself 10 the Mayor, who told
him that he was no Prussian subject, and
that ne might 60 on whittier be chose.
After fruitless endeaVOr TO obtain employ
ment and home, the young man al the
end of a fortnight crossed the
Russian frontier, and was arrested
at kratingen, where, in answer to in
quiries, he gave as his name thai Of his
father, and described himself as q native Of
st. Petersburg. He was thereupOn convey
ed 70 the capital and imprisoned at Splsk.
After being detained here q month ne was
q second time sent of to Memel, where he
received the same information as before
from the Mayor, and was ordered to quit !
the town at once. Again, therefore, be !
crossed the frontier and made his way IN
to Lib2u, where he was arrested |
and consigned 10 prison Aftera detention Of |
seven months he was once more escorted |
10 st. Petersburg by the police and i'm |
prisOned st Spask. His friends at length /
succeeded in obtaining his release, but not |
MI he had been tried ard fined five rOubles |
Tor assuming name O. 5 father 50 70 which /
be had no claim. They strOye in vain,
however, to procure him a passport, aud /
lgain the police escorted him to Memei, 1
where be, Of course, met with the same re-
,epticn as previously from the Mayor.
Under the circumstances, therefore, he
lad no other choice than to venture |
lpOn Russian territory onco more, and was
promptly apprehended az Kratan, recon-
lucted 70 st. Petersburg, and again con
igned TO the Spask prison for three months.
II the end Of this time he was liberated
nd provided with a passport. Here, how
yer, his trouble did not end. Having OBJ
aimed situation on the Nicholas Railway,
le fell i'll OF fever, and was sent to the Alex
ndrs Hospital. Here he alleges he vas
ll-treated by the nurses, and, rendering |
imself troublesome to the hospital au- |
hOrities by reason Of the lOuduess and !
ublicty Of his complaints, he was again
anded over 70 the police, and was immur-
d for seven mOaths in the kazan prison.
fourth expedition to Memel followed, |
nth results as before. For the fourth |
ime he was arrested on the frontier and
Onyeyed to prison at st. Petersburg. |
)uIing his journey the unfOr-
mate man, with the hope Of being |
snt TO Siberia, cOntrived 10 smash |
be window Of a shop, for the purpose, az
e alleged, Of committing q theft. The
xpedient, however, failed, and for the fifth |
me he found himself on his way back to
lemel. On seeing him appear once more,
be Mayor, in a passion, had him thrust
ON the door, aud in 1874 Nicholas was
gain IN the hands Of :he Russian police.
he st. Petersburg Gazette, from which
be above particulars ere taken, has not
atience to follow up the further pere-
-inatiOns Of the unfortunate young man,
u says thai they comprised two :
lore involuntary visits 10 The Mayor
Memel. SIS it not strange tie
Gzette continues, ''that this poor fellow,
no is charged with no crime CT OfTense,
,Ould be more severely punished than 4
iminal, for the sole reason that no one I
III give himself the trouble to get 10 the
)ttOm Of his unfortunate pCsitiOE, or to
lderstand that these perpetual Journeys
ON st. Petersburg to Memel, and from
emel 70 81. Petersburg, will in no way
lntrlbute to provide = remedy for it?'