Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-06-03
SAVED HERSELF FROM HORRIBLE DEATH.

From the Russian, by the San Francisco CALI
The correspondent Of the NovoStey Dna
DAILY News) writes that, near the village
of Kogoshua, terrible murder was lately
committed. A Russian peasant, who had
been to the village to sell pair Of oxen,
was returning home with his daughter, a
girl of fourteen years, when on his way he
stopped at kobach Ia drinking house,
three miles from town. In the place were
several suspicious looking persons, who no
ticed the peasants money when he paid for
his drink. The unsuspecting man left the
house and went on his way. Soon after,
under cover of the darkness, he was as
saulted and killed. After lliiDg the corpse
The murderers threw the body of their
unfortunate victim into well. The girl,
who had been \ witness Of 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 persuaded her to stay at
his place during the night, and he would
see what could be done in the morning.
Hardly had he and mis- wife time 10 put
the girl To bed with his own daughter,
girl of the same age, before the murderers
returned.
The kobachnik (saloon keeper acquaint-
ed them OF the giri's return, whereupon they
avowed their intention of completing their
bloody work by cutting the throat OF the i'll.
nocent child. The kobachuik objected TO
this mode of despatching the girl, as the
body might be discovered, and be an easy
means of identifying him as an accessory TO
the murder of her and her father. He pro
posed TO burn her alive in the bread oven.
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iugly he ordered his wife to prepare for the
burning of the girl. When the oven was
ready he directed his accomplice to take the
girl who was lying on the outside Of the
bed, with yellow handkerchief bound
around her head and throw her into the
oven. At the same time he cautioned them
to be quick in their work in order to pre-
vent her making an outcry. The girl, ner-
vous and agitated by the dreadful work of
the night, had not gone 10 sleep. She
breathlessly listened to the preparations OF
the Williams for her own murder. Quietly
rising from the bed, she looked about for
means Of escape, but saw none except u
window, which was fastened with large
nail, the only other means of exit being the
door through which she had been brought,
and which led directly to the room the muir
derers were in.
The terror stricken girl looked about in
hopes of finding some weapon Of defense to
use as . last resort. There was nothing in
tho place but cup filled with water. In
voluntarily she grasped it, then laid it
down. Suddenly an idea seemed to seize
her. Turning toward the bed she united
the yellow handkerchief about her head
and tied it on that of her sleeping compan-
ion, taking cure to draw it well down on
her face so as to couceal the features. Then
grasping the sleeping girl by the shoulder,
She rolled her over till she rested on the
front OF the bed. Then the desperate girl
crawled over to the inside and waited. The
murderers, acting on the description given
by the kobachnik, seized the girl with the
yellow handkerchief over her face and
threw her into the oven. After completing
their terrible work they went to sleep, thus
giving tho other girl chance to escape.
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 muir
derers in custody.