Morning journal and courier., 1880-01-21
Irrepressibie Nlhilists
DefyIng Their Executioncrs and Stris ing to Preach from Ghe ScRffOId.
 IFrnm tlla Inndnn Standardl

DefyinE Their ExecutiOncrs and Strive
 ing to Preach from the ScaffOld.
 From the London standard.l
 The Odessa journals report that on the 18th of December, in conformity with orders Is
 sued by the Governor General and Command. er-in-Ohief of the troops, General Todleben, preparations were made early in the morning sentenced to death by the Odessa court mar tial The House of Detention. in which the condemned men were confined, was surround
 ed by four regiments of infantry and one reg iment Of Cossacks. Punctually at Il o'clock in the morning the gates leading to the court
 yard of this House of Detention opened and gave passage to black-wago drawn by two horses, in which the three condemned men were seated, with their hands firmly tied be- hind them and again bound to a bar affixed to each side of the vehicle. The nobleman, Victor Alexejef Malnka, young man of twenty six years of age and a volunteer in the One Hundred and Thirty second Battal- ion of the Infantry Reserves; Josefof Maid anski, military surgeon of the Seventh Regi- ment of Hussars, twenty-five years of age, and Ivan Wassilewitsch Drobiaskin, twenty eight years of age, the son of a priest, were all enveloped in the customary long white garment From around the neck of each of the prisoners was suspended @ large black placard bearing the inscription, ''gossudarst- wennyi prestupnik" (traitor to the State. ) During the whole ride from the prison to the place of execution the three prisoners did their utmost to make their voices heard by the dense crowds which lined the way. The wagon was escorted by the Thirteenth Battal- ion of Chasseurs, which bears the name of the Prince of Bulgaria. and by a hundred Cos
 sacks. In addition to this escort the wagon was guarded by five gendarmes, who rode by its side with drawn swords. As Drobiaskin would not heed the reiterated command to cease addressing the people, but on the con- trary shouted to them at the top of his voice, one of the gendarmes struck him so severe a blow on the head with the fiat of his sword that it stunned him. Upon this one of his fellow prisoners cried out, 'sDo not hew us down, unfortunate minion of the Czar," but the gendarme, threatening him also with his sword, only answered by the injunction, ''Moltschi, sobaka!" (silence, hound.) Very shortly after this painful incident the place of men were unbound from their seats in the wagon and led to the gallows. Their sentence being read by Captain Nesterenko, Malfnka was deprived of his rank as Q nobleman. Af- ter this ceremony had been completed Malin- ka was at once delivered over to the hangman. He, however, demanded permission to address the people, which was refused him by the commander of the town, Major General Baron Heinz, who inquired if he would like to con- fer with the priest. Malinka, after scornfully glancing at him, turned to the hangman and said, ''Now, servile wretch, do your work. :" Drobiaskin was the next to be placed under the rope. When in this position priest ap- preached him with crucifix, but was repuls- ed with the words, ''Iet me alone, brother. do not want any of that humbug." When the last prisoner, Maidanski, was placed in the executioner's hands he shouted out to the rabbi, "Get out of my sight let me not set eyes upon you" At 11:30 o'clock all three were hanged and at 12 o'clock the bodies were cut down and cast into the graves which had been dug on the spot. The earth was thrown upon them and stamped down. Ma jor-General Krok then gave the word of com mand and the troops, marching off the ground with their band playing, passed over the graves and trod down the earth yet tighter.