Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-05
MILE. FINGER.
Some AcCcWnt Of q Female NihiList-Re7
WileS and Her York.
New York Herald.


WiIeS and Her York.
New York Herald
The capture of an important female nj
hilist took place in the person of Mile.
Philippof, better known under her maiden
name of Finger. The Russian police Off
Gals we're searching for her for about five
years without success, though they had
convincing proofs of her active participa-
ton in all the recent nihilistic crimes. She
was wanted for having lent helping hand
to the nihilists who were at different times
digging the ground under diverse railroad
lines with the object of blowing up the late
emperor's train with dynamite. She was
mixed up in the celebrated robbery of the
Kherson treasury vaults by the nihilists, and
is said to have beeni in st. Petersburg at
the time of the assassination of Alexander
IL, having a thorough knowledge of the
terrible plot. Belonging to the middle
class of Russian provincial society, Mile
Finger was rightly famed for her beauty
and remarkable smartness. She has studied
medicine il the University of Zurich,
Switzerland, obtaining diploma of ND;
then she returned to Russia and married q
young assistant of the procuror of the
court of Kazan; after three months of
married life she left her husband and could
not be laid hands on for five years, battling
all the traps set for her by the Russian de-
tectives, but being invariably heard of in
conjunction with all nihilistic crimes of
late years.
The jubilations of the Russian police and
their pride at capturing Mile Philippoff
are better imagined than described. AS
soon as the celebrated lady nihilist was
brought to the capital all the officials of
high standing hurried to see her, and
found it hard to resist the combined pow
er of her glib tongue and her beauty. The
chief of the secret police force in st. Pc
tersburg-M. Orgewsky-went to see her
first, with the object of impressing her with
the gravity of her situation, but after a few
minutes of conversation with her, he beat
a hasty retreat, remembering-as the Cos
sips of the capital say-that he has been
but lately married, in the presence of the
imperial couple, to the young and accom-
plished Princess Nathalie Shahovsky, and
being suddenly seized with a mortal fear
to be unable to resist the chsrmer, Mile
Philippoff. Then Count Tolstoy, the min
lister of the interior, volunteered to
see the fair prisoner. He, however,
being an old man, was no more afraid of
the consort of the best half of his life,
and, staying an hour and half in the
cell of Mile Philippoff, left it-as he him
self subsequently owned-well nigh over
powered by the woman's arguments, feel
ing himself almost converted to nihilism
for an hour or so after the interview was
over. The whole population of the capital
is eager to see Mile Philippoff, but
only few old privileged individuals are
admitted to her presence, since it is Sc
riously feared that, were the younger of
the high officials allowed to visit her, she
possibly would succeed in persuading one
of them to let her escape from prison in
his clothes, the gentleman remaining be-
hind in the guise of hostage, to be dis
posed of by the government.