The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-12-27
A FEMALE NllIlLIST.
I[coSrlSuEp fnoN rEsrERpAY.l

The romance Of her lifo commence
during her Stayln St. Petersburg utter he
escape. She was ONO Of tho s~o.calle
'Amazons,' and was ono OF the mos
fanatical. She ardcntly preached agains
love and advocated cclibacy, holding thu
with 80 many young non and young girl
OF the present day love was q clog upoI
revolutionary activity. There was Mt thu
time In St. Petersburg a certain Nichola
Morosoir, a young poet and brave fellow
handsome, and. fascinating as his poeti
dreams.
Tho bold "Amazon" and theyoung poe
met, and their fate was decided. I vii
not tell Of tho delirium and transport
Through which they passed. Their low,
was like some delicate and sensitive plant
which must not DO rudcly touched. !
was Il spontaneous aud Irresistible feeling
They did not perceive 1t Until they wcrt
madly cnamored Of each other. The,
became husband and wife. 1t WIS sal.
Of them that when they. wcro togethc,
memorable Fate had no heart to toucl
them, and that its cruel hand became .
p%aternal one, which warded oil tho blow.
that threatened them. And, indeed, nj
their misfortrMcs happened TO them when
they were apart.
This WAS the incident which did much
to give rise to the saying.
In November, 1870, Olga foil into the
bands ofthe police. 1t should DO e1plaincd
that when these succeeded in arresting Il
Nihilist they always leave in the apart.
ments Of the captured person n few men
to take into custody any ono who may
come to SEQ that person. In our Language
this is called n trap. Owing to the Rus.
sian habit OF arranging everything at
home and not in the cafes, rs in Europe,
the Nihilisis arc often compelled to 30 to
zach others houses, and thus these traps
become fatal. In order to diminish the
risk, safety signals are generally placed in
the windows and arc taken away ut the
first sound OF the police. But owing to
the negligence Of the Nihilists themselves,
accustomed rs they and TO danger and SO
occupied that they sometimes have not
time to eat a moathiul all day long, the
absence Of these sisnnis is often dis.
regarded, or attributed to some combina.
ton OF circumstances-tho difficulty, or
perhaps the Typographical impossibility,
OF placing signals in many apartments III
such a manaer that they Gun be seen
from n distance. This measure OF public
security frequently, does not answer the
purpose, and n good half OF all the Nihi-
lists who have fallen into the hands OF the
government have been caught in these
very traps.
A precisely similar misfortune happen
cd to Olga, and the worst OF IL was that it
was in the house OF Alexander kviatkov-
sky, n OF the Terrorist leaders, where
the police found Il perfect magazine Of
dynamite, bombs, and similar things, to-
setlier with a plan Of the Winter Palace,
which, after the explosion there, led to his
capital conviction. AS may readily be be-
lievcd, the police would regard with any
thing but favorable eyes every one who
came to the house OF such It man.
Directly she entered, Olga was imme-
diately seized by two policemen, in order
to prevent her from defending herself.
She, however, displayed not the slightest
desire to do SO. She feigncd surprise, as
constituent, and invented there aud then
the story that she had come to see some
dressmakcrs (who had, in fact. their names
on Il door.plate below, and occupied the
upper floor Tor the purpose Of ordering
something, but had mistaken the door;
that she did not know what they wanted
with her, and wished to be returned to her
husband, etc.; the usual subteriugc; to
which. the police are accustomed to turn a
deaf ear.
! But Olga played her part so we'll that
the pritdr, or head OF the notice of the
district, was really inclined to believe her.
He told her that anyhow, if she did not
wish to be Immediately taken to prison,
she must give her liant and conduct him
to her own house.
No sooner had she descended into the
street, accompanied by the pristap and
some Of his subalterns, than Olga mot a
friend. Madame Maria A., who was going
to kviatkoysky's, where a meeting OF Ter
rorists had actually been fixed that very
day. 1t was 10 this chance meeting TINT
tho Tcrrorists owed their escape from the
verysrave danger which threatenedthcm;
for the windows Of Kviatkoysky's room
were SO placed that twas impossible to
see any signals from the.street.
Naturally enough the two friends made
no sign to Indicate that they were nc.
quainted with each other, but Madame
Maria A., on seeing Olga with the police,
ran in haste to inform her friends OF the
arrest Of tlloir companion, about which
there couid be no doubt,
Tho first to BIO warned was Nicholas
Morosoili, as the police would in a short
timo undoubtedly go to bis house and
make the customary search. Olga felt
certain that this wasN precisely what her
friends would do, and therefore her sole
object now was to delay her custodians so
rs to give Morosotr time to ~"clear" his
rooms (that is to say, destroy or take away
papers and everything compromising and
TO get away himself.
Greatly. embroidered by this lucky meet
ing with her friend, Olga, without saying
a word, conducted the police to the Is
mailoysky Polk, one OF the quarters OF the
town most remote from tho place Of her
arrest, which was in the Neysky District.
They found the street and the house indi-
Gated to them. They entered and sum
moned tho drornik ldoorkeeper), who has
to be present at every search made. Thon
came the inevitable explanation. The
duornik said that he did not know the
lady, and that she did not lodge in that
house.
Upon hearing this statement, Olga GOV.
cred her face with her hands and gave
way to despair. She sobbingly admitted
that she liad deceived them for fear OF her
husband, who was very harsh, that she
had not given her right namcund address,
and wound up by begging them to let her
60 home.
"What's the use of all this, madam ~
exclaimed the pris.am. "Don't you sec
you are only doing yourself harm by these
tricks?, I'll forgive you this time because
Of your inexperience, but take care you
don't do it again, and lead us at once tc
your house, or otherwise you will repent
Of it."
After much hesitation Olga resolved tc
obey the iniunctions oitile pristaw. She
gave her nano and said she lived in one o;
the lines OF the Vasili Ostrov. Her fus
hand she said Woull In jrnodfnllv oncrx