The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-19
ANOTHER GIRL NIHILIST.
Romantic Story Brought Out at the
Recent Trial in st. Petersburg.
How a Wedding Was Made the Occasion
for Supplying Large Quantities Of
Powerful Explosives.
St. Petersburg Correspondence New York Sun.


Revolutionary party have just been tried in
this city, and in Odessa twenty-six members
of the same party are now on trial. The
Idea of the government was to show the peo-
pie that, at last, the Russian revolutionists,
or Nihilists, had been crushed. But on look
ing over the testimony of the accused per-
sons and the witnesses, the Cars officers
realized that the effect would be just the
contrary to what they intended, if public
ity was given to the trials. Therefore the
Minister of the Interior, and the Minister of
justice combined their efforts to make these
trials as secret as possible. Not only
the public at large, but the relatives of the
accused persons and even civil officers have
not been allowed to enter the courtroom.
All the reporters, those of the official pu Bill
cations included, have been strictly forbidden
to approach even the building in which the
court, sits. For the sake of decency, how
ever, the government deemed it necessary to
publish at least the verdict of the court The
Pravitelstvenny Vestnik (the Government
Messenger) also contained the following:
After the crime of March Is, 1881, the
victim of which was the late emperor, the
party, though weakened by the arrest of
many active members, nevertheless decided
to continue its criminal acts Having filled
its ranks with new recruits, it resumed its
operations On March 80 1892 Maior-general
Strelnikoff, who by His Majestys order was
Investigating political crimes, was killed in
Odessa. In the summer of 1882 depot was
discovered in this city where explosives and
bombs intended for future criminal acts were
manufactured"
Thus, thanks to the Car s own organ the
Russians are now aware that the Nihilist
ranks are newly recruited and that they are
as active as ever before. This is not pleas
mt ~ Of ,Nfao fal .,,fO g., A.
guests invited to the coming coronation.
Though the terrorists have been tried or
rather condemned with the utmost secrecy,
yet have found means of learning of the
proceedings Of the so-called trial. The en-
ergy and audacity of the Nihilists are indeed
surprising, With tenacity Unprecedented
in the history of conspracies, they stick to
this capital as the principal place for, the
preparations and operations. The dynamite
factory, the counterfeit-pass bureau, the secret
printing press, the conspirators rooms the
model bomb factory, the executive commit
tee, the finance bureau, in
short, all the principal Nihilst
departments are kept in this CITY,
and that in spite of the standing army,
over 100 900 strong, stationed here, the enor-
NOUS body of triple police, a legion of dvor
Mkt, and the Draconic municipal regula-
lions. There is sense III what the head of
civil department recently said to me in fun:
Nowadays this city of ST. Petersburg is
the capital of the Nihilists rather than of the
Car, and his Majesty tacitly admits the fact
by keeping away from here"
All of the seventeen men and women were
proved to be Terrorists, and were condemned
for various criminal acts committed in the
last five years. So it seems that these men
and women for five years successfully evaded
all the SHARES of the police The same holds
true of hundreds of other Nihilists. What
an encouraging demonstration OF the eff
This Nihlist trial, like the former ones,
had its romance. Last year Michael Grach-
evsky, Terrorist, was ordered by the execu-
tive committee to establish chronological
school wherein -Nihilists could be taught to
manufacture explosives and make bombs. He
persuaded a successful veterinary surgeon,
Alexander Rribylef, and his intended bride,
Miss Raissa Grossman to rent a separate
house for him In order to accommodate
the Nihilists, the surgeon and his bride hur-
ried up the wedding, In their new house
they received from their friends many queer
wedding presents, such as bottles of nitro
glycerine, boxes of dynamite. electric bat
teries and the like. The committee sent them
the daughter of priest, Mary Youshkoff. as
an experienced cook" Besides attending
to the gastronomic needs of the family, she
had to wash nitro-glycerine. Thus the Priby-
letfs. began married life. They had a
small circle of selected friends, among
whom were Prof. Grachevsky, who delivered
lectures in their house on explosives, mines
and bombs with demonstrations; "Lieuten-
ant of the Imperial Navy Alexander Rutze-
WITCH, q specialist on mines Michael Xii
mengo, Terrorist. who ran away from the
Siberian mines; Miss Christine Grinberg and
Mrs. Anna uKorba, who proved successful
students In the chemistry OF dynamite,
When the house of the Pribyleffs was en-
tered by the police a laboratory was discoy-
ored in perfect working order. There was
an ample supply OF glycerne, sulphuric
acid, pyroxiline, three demjohns full of
nitro-glycer!ne and so on. But the atten-
ton of the Cars detectives was nailed to
some queer-looking boxes, which proved to
be bombs ready for use. They were found
to he a decided improvement on the one by
which the late Gar was killed. They were
made in the shape of square fiat boxes with
O cover, and were said to be very convenient
to carry concealed in the clothing. The for
mer Nihilst bombs could not be conven-
iently carried about the person, and had to
be carried in the hands wrapped up in
handkerchief or paper. On the Cars day
the IvaEs usually throw up their caps. At
the coronation festivities there will be a YER
liable cloud Of caps thrown up. Now who
can guarantee that some of those caps shall
not be bombs in disguised And this is what
Is now greatly worrying the coronation COM
nlittee. The gendarme officers suggest that
g Mt Moscow the Ivans shall be kept so far
away from the Gar that he shall be out OF
reach of their caps But everybody who
knows Moscow is aware that such plan
would be impracticable. And so his Majesty,
instead of being cheered by the caps, will
tremble at their very shadow
Grachevsky and the daughter of priest
Prascayla lvanovsky, were arrested under
the assumed names of Burgher Prishibn
and wife. In their rooms were found nine
jars filled with black dynamite, several
bombs of the old style, a grenade charged
with gunpowder and grapeshot pistols, dag
gers and poisons and printing press Miss
Prascovia told the court that she was a men,
Der of the executive committee. This sim
Pile declaration caused sensation among the
highest dignitaries of the empire who were
present in the court Miss Prascovia is of