The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-22
AN AMERICAN NIHILIST.
Serge ChubarOff, Naturalized I'm
New York and Hanged in
0deRSA.

Serge ChubarOff, Naturalixed In
New York and Hanged in
Odessa.
New York SUM-
Nine years ago man appeared before
the Bureau of Naturalization in this
city, declared his intentions to become
an American citizen, and renounced al.
legiance to any foreign potentate, and
particularly to the Czar of all the Rus
sias. This man gave his name as Serge
Green.
Mr.. Green lived in New York for five
years. working as a mechanic. Occa.
sionally he would leave the city for a
longer or shorter time-as it now ap-
pears, in quest of information desired by
his friends in Russia. Probably some Of
the workmen who were employed on the
new Post-office will remember him. In
1875 he sailed for Europe. His friends
here heard of him in Switzerland, in
Servia, fighting the Turks, and in Rou.
nlana. Then all trace of him was
lost.
One of the five Nihilists recently
hanged in Odessa was known to the
Court officers and the police as Serge
Chubaroff, nobleman. But the same
man, nine years ago, took out his first
papers in this city as Serge Green.
In 1868 young Chubarof' was at the
university, where the leaven of revolu-
tionary ideas was already working. 1t
was III that year that the students
adopted their motto, "V narodw ("For
the people") Chubaroff was one of the
first party who left the university to
plunge into the sea of action. He and
his friends underwent many hardships
Soon they found out that, without q
knowledge of some manual labor, they
could not stay safely among the peasants
Chubaroff, with several of his noble
friends, established a blacksmith shop
where they learned peasants work. Then
Chubaroff worked in different factories
always busy in the revolutionary propa
ganda. As soon as he was noticed by the
police he would 60 away and appear ir
some other place under different name
But his health could not long stand such
life. He fell sick, and was sent to St
PETERSBURG for treatment. Here the
police were soon on his track, and his
friends hurried him abroad. Hence his
sojourn in this city and his acquisitiA Of
American citizenship.
On Aug. 9th, 1878, when the Odessa
Military Court pronounced the death
sentence on Kovalsky, riot broke out
on the street before the Courthouse. A
small group of Nihilists, led by an un
known captain, attempted to rescue theil
doomed friend; but they were overpow
cred and arrested. The Captain proved
to be Serge Chubaroff. On the trial ii
was shown he had been one of the mos
active revolutionists, being known among
them as Captain; that his house in Odesss
was their headquarters; that they al
ways repaired there armed, sometimes tC
the number of fifteen men and women
that he possessed a large number OF
forged Government seals and forged pass
ports; that he had given to the revolu
tionary cause eight thousand roubles
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of pyroxiline in August, 1873, for min'
in Nikolaeff that was to blow up tn
Gar; that he was one of the men wht
had induced one thousand peasants t.
form a secret revolutionary society fo
the purpose of setting up a republic OF
the plan of the United States; that OF
the occasion of the acquittal of Yer
Zassulitch he had made public speecl
in which he denounced the Gar; lastly
that he had taken part in the riotous at
tempt to rescue the State criminal Koval
sky, in which two persons were kille'
and number of soldiers wounded; am
that, dagger in hand, he had resisted tn
gendarmes who arrested him.
He refused to give any information, t
defend himself, or to be defended by tn
counsel assigned to him by the Cour
His name headed the list of twenty -eigh
condemned political criminals; the SCI
tence was death, and he met it bravely