News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-07-16
A BRAVE RUSSIAN GIRL.
How She Saved Herself from a Horrible
Death.

The correspondent of Nouostey Dna
DAILY Ne,oS 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, girl of fourteen years, when
on his way he stopped at kobach "a
drinking house, three miles from town.
In the place were several suspicious
looking persons, who noticed the peas
ants money when he paid for his drink.
The unsuspecting man left the house and
went on his way. SoGn after, und.1,.s-
Ge- -aaess ne was asa>
nSn derers threw the body of their un-
fortunate 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
owney 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 his
wife had time to put the girl to bed
with his own daughter, girl of the
same age, before the murderers returned.
The kobachnik (saloon keeper ac-
quainted them of the girls return, where
upon they avowed their intention of COM
pleting their bloody work by cutting the
throat of the innocent child. The
kobachnik objected to this mode of dis
patching 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.
To this the others consented, and ac-
cordingly he ordered his wife to prepare
for the burning of the girl. When the
oven was ready he directed his accom-
plice 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 prevent her
making an outcry. The girl, nervous
md agitated by the dreadful work of
the night, had not gone to sleep. She
breath1essly listened to the preparations
of the villains for her own murder.
Quietly rising from the bed, she looked
about for a means of escape, but saw
none except window, which was fast
ened 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 murderers
were in
The terror-stricken girl looked about
in hopes of finding some weapon of de-
fense to use as last resort. There was
nothing in the place but a cup filled with
water. Involuntary she gfdsped 1t, then
laid it down. Turning toward the bed
she united the yellow handkerchief
about her head and tied it on that OF her
sleeping companion, taking care to draw
it well down on her face so as to conceal
the features. Then grasping the sleep
ing girl by the shoulder, she rolled her
Sydr Sy til h che tne fS'fd desPerate girl crawiod
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 the other girl d
chance to escape. She Immediately
made her way to town and gave informa-
ton to the police. No time was lost,
and posse of officers, under the guild
ancs Of the girl, seen had the murderers
in custody.