The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1879-06-06
TIE WHILST Trials At KIEFF.
sophie Won Herzfeid Condemned 10 Death for
Trying 60 KIN a Police AGENT.

Prom the Loadon Daily N,ies
ST. PETERSBURG, May 1s.-The individuals
whose trial Is now proceeding before the mil
itary tribunal at Kien are thus described: :
Louise Brundtucr. u Prussian subject; three
gentlemen named Respectively Rotislom Steh-
line Kamensky. Vladimir DGbOgOriy- Mukr6-
witch. and Paul Orion; four persons who have
refused to state their names; six ladies'. viz.
Natalie Armfeld. daughter Of privy councillor:
Cntharine Snrandovitch. daughter OF II collie
Riatc assessor; Alexandra Poulliisinc. dnugh-
ter of retired Captain in the Russian service /;
Marie kovalevsky. daughter OF n nobleman [;
Catherine. Nitochniefi widow OF druggist /;
and Vera Vassilieff. daughter Of non-commis-
stoned officer.
The charges are: l. Braudtner. Stehline-
kamensky. Dcbogoriy- MukriGvitch. Orlon. the
four unknown persons and Armied, kovaley-
sky. and Sarandovtch as members OF an IL
legal association. having for its object the over
throw OF the State and social order; 2. Brandt
ner. Stebline- kamensky. md one Of the four
unknown, with having offered armed resist
ance to the gendarmes and police. thereby caus-
ing the death ot.one OF the police agents, and
tho unknown. arrested by II soldier named knp-
line with having offered armed resistance to
ihe police, and slightly wounded ono OF TIE po-
levsky with having forged md used lglse pass
ports; 3. The four unknown individunls for
concealing their names and calllngs G. Pota;
litsine aud Nitotchaieff for having concealed
the offence mentioned under the first head /:
and Z. Vera Nassiliel, for not having denounced
this offence to tho authorities.
The second trial Is OF three persons-one de-
scribed as Renteman Naldrien Osinsky; the
hecOnu. nm unmarried nay OF nOue blrtny
Sophie Lcschern Won llprzteld; and an individ-
ual calling himself Alexander Nyschniakofr.
The lady cannot be considered young and in
experienced, as she has been already tried be-
fore the st. Petersburg law courts in 1877. and
was then adludRed to n very slight punishment,
viz. to be domcled in the provincial town Of
Samara. She WAS subsequently released. on
the petition Of her mother. from this mild form
OF rusticntion. She IL about 80 years OF age,
and instead Of profting by the modified re-
straint she had undergone and tho subsequent
release Observation-Disclosures her former degree
OF guilt or innocence may have been-shc APP
pears to have thrown IN her lot with the most
violent section OF tho revolutonists and to have
become daring and reckless. ,he charge against
her being not only that she belonged TO the
illegal associations. but that she had tried 10
kill one OF the police.
The specific charges against these prisoners
are mainly. as in the former cases: /. For be-
Ing connected with an unlawful society having
for its object the overthrow Of the State and
social order. Osinsky being one OF the prin-
cipal leaders OF this society: 2. For having
forged and used false passports: 3. Osinsky
and tho so-called VyschniAkof for having dis
seminAted printed books and proclamations in
citing to riot 4. Oslnsky. for having attempted
TO XII an olhcer OF gendarmes; 5, Leschern
Won Herzfeld. for having ATTEMPTED to kill "a
police agent: 6. The so-caled Vyschniakoff,
Tor having concealed his name and profession;
BERLIN. May 23.-Judgmcnt in the kieif
political trial. which commenced on the 18th.
was pronounced on the 10Th. Osinsky and
Mile. Sophie Leschern Won Herzfeld were con-
demned to be shot Mile Won Herzield Is de-
scribed as OF noble birth. Tho third individ-
ual. who Ia called Vyschniakoff was condemned
to ten years labor in the mines.