Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-01-28
MAN HUNTING.


s..,rt OF the siberian Colo
y Horn" pists.
indeed, even when death
Fcrry on,ne TO put an end to his ex-
= nov .v the lot of the convict who
knce, aasseded In escaping from the
so' n eastern Siberia Without
|nts y. " If any kind, he must rob or
|clrce ,,,av back TO Russia. The al
hls w." n seeking employment Is
lna'nh often has disastrous conse-
WIN" The convict of the lowest
Fnce sss,,ards the Siberian colonist as
n .,srIor, and has a saying which
ln N.Y. him as blind for
fcnVed ovs after BIRTH But the
Re has his revenge. He
|cIlls' the supercilious convict
lrss s.ost of burden, and gives him
4 ,, o rest and as little food rs posi-
|ll''W,s When wages are demanded the
~, has an original way of satisfy.
|o ~ ,aborer. The money is paid
DE- demur, but before the convict
lios' clear. he falls dead, killed by a
w nom the gun of his cruel en-
le lev This method of payment is
Wines si, carried out on a large scale.
adopted in the case OF vagabond
su' who having finished their
kp ,r work in the fields, return to
. ,,,,a,irahboring village to be paid of.
msges are forthcoming and the
~ allowed to depart with their
'dIr earned money. But they
u' no sooner gone than
u neasant farmer assemblies
| naighbors, and having pro-
them with horses and firearms,
Mole party sallies forth in pursuit
,sa WA vagabonds. The retiring la
y. are speedily overtaken; most
Filled on the spot, all are robbed.
recovered money being divided
,,ssn the farmer and his confeder-
The only respect shown for au-
Civ Is the prevalent habit, where
'hsr ! has been the motive of
"Shter. of concealing the dead. The
praered convicts are usually cut up
INITIATED, and the remains buried
tnnt.of.the.way places. This hunting
,be "hunch-backs," as the escaped
syicts are often called in derision,
zone on for years, entering so deeply
n The habits of the people that 1t
1 escaped the attention of few trav-
y through eastern siberia.
There are the mem" was
,ed of a woman left in charge
n small village adjoining the high
h nGone after the hunchbacks,"
3 the reply. Such is the prevailing
Imoralization in this respect that
n have been heard to ask their faith
/ 10 kill yagabonds in order that they
n see 'how the fellow will roll on
4 hump In some of the govern
6nts it is certain death for convict,
4aped, or still under supervision, to
caught returning from the mine.
kcasionally the soldiers initiate the
kouists in their exploitation of the
1gabond. The Cossack, as well as
4 ordinary colonist, covets cheap
|cr and is in the habit of rcwarding
Nh an ounce or two of lead the con-
h who declines to pass from one con-
ion of bond slavery to another.
During the colonization of the Trans
kal region the hunting of vaga'
nds was one of the common diver
bus of the newly arrived settlers.
Oal Tomsk to Chit there is local
that has rendered itself notorious
the pursuit, on a large scale, of es'
bed convicts. In the Tomsk gov
ment itself whole villages are de
Fibed as living solely by the robbery
vagabonds. The river Karasan has
ZEN so filled with the bodies of muir.
bred convicts as to become putrid
= fear Fingul open woods are known
- favorle ground for the slaughter
Me whole of the district is full of tht
Memories aud traditions of Siberian
an-hunting. Heroes of the spor
e still alive, Bitkoy, Remanov ano
Pyorata were each expert i'll differ
lt ways. Romanov, for instance
Iined celebrity in the village of Fin
where he was in th'
fbit OF lying in ambush close to tn,
ghway, and shooting down every
Bgabond who passed. In the autumn
enlng Bitkoy used to pick off strag
es along the banks of the rive
ugsr. During subsequent sport alonl
Pc Blryus there were individual 81
frisns who boosted that they haC
Fought down as many as go and il
Me cases 40 vagabonds. Only upor
le Of these hunters of men do til,
1gaoonds seem to have taken ven
ahee. They selected one Paramonicl
10 had been all his life engaged il
Flllng convicts. The vagabonds as
|heled together, seized him, ant
Sought his career to close b.
ahglng him alive in u caldron o
Etlldesraut metal Ton,you G{ob1