Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-06-27

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/ kl,si Russian, by the San Francisco Call.
= The correspondent Of the Novoste,
!. Daa ( Daily News) writes that near tn,
village OF kogoshua d terrible murde
s wis lately committed. A Russian
peasant, who had sbeenito the village Il
sell a pair of oxen, was returning homs
with his daughter, a girl Of fourteen
years, when on his way he stopped al
a kob,lch, Ga drinking houseJ three
i miles from town. In the place were
several suspicious looking persons, who
noticed the PEASANTS money when he
paid Tor his drink The unsuspecting
4 MAN left the house and went on his
way. Soon after, under cover of the
darkness, he was assaulted and killed.
After rififng the corpse the murderers
! threw the body OF their unfortunate
victim into welI.o The girl, who had
been a witness to her fathers murder.
returned to the house where her father
had stopped, and informed the owner
of what had occurred. He told the
girl to keep quiet and pursuaded her
to stay at her place during the night
and he would see what could be done
i'll the morning. Hardly had he and
his wife had time to put the girl to
bed with his own daughter, a girl Of
the same age, before the murderers re-
turned. l4aiea i2a NsiqNa isf'
The kobachnik (saloonkeeper) ac.
quainted them of the girls return,
whereup0n they avowed their inten-
ton of completing their bloody work
by cutting the throat of the innocent
child. The kobachnik objected to
this mode Of dispatching the girl, as
the body might be discovered, and be
an easy means OF identifying him as
an accessory to tile murder OF her and
her !ather. He proposed TO burn her
alive in the breadoven. .H ~
To this the others consented, and
accordingly he ordered his wife to
prepare for the burning OF the girl,
When the oven was ready he directed
his aecomplice to take the girl, who
was lying on the outside OF the bed,
with a yellow handkerchief bound
around her head, and throw her into
the oven. At the same time he eau
toned them to be-quick their work
in order to prevent her making an
ot,tcry. The girl, nervous and agi-
tlted from the dreadful work or the
night, had not gone to sleep. She
bre@.hlcssiy listened TO the rrepAra
tion< f.r her own murder Quietly
'risaig from the bed she locked about
her Tor a means of escape, but saw
none, except Il window, which was
fastened with Il large nail, the only
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through which she had been brought,
and which led directly to the room the
mursierers We're III.
The terror stricken girl looked
about in hopes of finding some weapon
of defense bllse rs Il last resort. There
WAS nothing in the place buta cup |
Filled with wafer. Involuntarily, she
graSped it, then laid it down. Sudden
ly an idea seemed to seize her Turn |
ing toward the bed she united the vel |
law handkerchief about her head and I
tied it ON that OF her sleeping COM
panion, taking clre to draw it well |
slown on her face, so is TO conceal her
features. Then grasping the sleeping 1
girl by the shoulder she rested on the |
front OF the bed. Then the desperate
girl crawled over to the inside and
waited. The murclerers, acting on the /
given by the sobaehnil,
seized the girl with the, yellow hand
kerchief over her face and threw her
into the oven. After completing their
terrible work they went to sleep, thus
giving the other girl chance 10 es-
cape. She immediately made her way
to town and gave information to the
police. No time was lost, and posse
Of officers, under the guidance OF the
girl, soon had the murderers in GUS
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