, 1881-05-11

the Court. This prisoner left nothing
unsaid that could deeply incriminS
ate himself. He declared himself q
member of the revolutionary party, an
agent of it's executive committee, the
organizer of the assassination of the
Emperor, and went into q very long
account of the objects of his party and the
complicated arrangements of its circles
and head centres. He furthermore an.
nounced that he had known of the mine in
little Garden street, and had worked in
digging out the earth for it; that he
assisted in the affair of the Alexandrofsky
mine under the railway, and, in fact, that
III most of the later plots against the Gar
he had played a very important part, and
enjoyed the full confidence of the executive
committee. He tried to extenuate the
cases of Risakoff and Michailoff by assert
ing that the former was only a progagan.
dist among workmen 0nd knew nothing
of the arrangements for numbering the
Emperor until the day of its accomplish
ment, and that the latter was entirely I'M.
connected with the crime. So deeply,
however, did he involve himself that when
the President cut short his harangue, the
Procuror stated that he might dispense
with several witnesses for the prosecution.
To this Jelaboff and Kibaichich objected,
and the Court retired again to decide that
point. On again entering, the Court
struck out the names of some witnesses,
and called all the rest to take oath in a
body. All standing in the centre of the
court, the Orthodox witnesses were first
sworn, then the Catholics and Lutherans
by their respective priests, ending with one
Mussulman, for whom a Mollah was in
attendance. This done, at 6 o'clock, the
Court adjourned till 8.
ST. PETERSBURG, April 10.
Yesterday morning the ProcurOr Mura.
vieuff began his speech for the Grown,
which occupied, with one or two intervals,
nc less thar FIVE hours. The first part of
the discourse, lasting until past midday,
was a recapitulation of the charges laid
against the prisoners in the act of accus2-
tion. After the interval at noon for lunch
the Procuror began the second part OF his
case, by giving a detailed description OF
the lives, careers, and characteristic OF
the six accused. He sketched the course
of Risakoff, who threw the first bomb at
the Imperial carriage, from the time that
he left his home, came to st. Petersburg,
entered tbs School of Mines, fell into the
revolutionary meSheS, and finally became
o willing tool of the arch .~conSpiratOr Jela-
bof. In some sense the guilt of Risakoh
was extenuated by the emphasis which was
laid upon JelabOff's influence over him, an
influence which RisakOf had himself &C
k~nOwledged in court. Jelaboff was por.
trayed as a type of the ambitious Russian
Revolutionary leader, and great stress was
laid upon the fact that the late prisoner
Goldenburg had spoken of him by name as
one of the most important as well as GEM.
al members of the Revolutionary party.
His career in the ranks of this party had
extended over ten years. The life OF
Sophie Perofskaja was next analysed, and
found wanting in everything that was
womanly and attractive in her sex, al.
though her position and connexion had
given her every opportunity of receiving
the best possible education that could be
had. Leaving her home to propagate the
ideas of her party in the national schools
of the interior, she too became the blind
executant of Jelaboff's will, and gave the
signal for exploding both the mine under
the Moscow Railway and the bomb on the
Catherine Canal. Kibaichich, once a mem
Der of the Academy of Engineers, was dis.
posed Of by q description of his chemical
service to the party and of his revolution
airy ideas for OverthrOwing the existing
state of society. MichailOf, as q simple,
uneducated peasant and workman, was
another instrument of Jelabof, understand
ing little of the revolutionary and Social.
istic ideas of his more intelligent compan.
ions, and devoting himself to set wOrkmen
at variance with their masters for the adj
vantage of the revolutionary cause. The