, 1885-04-08
BOUND FOR SIBERIA.
TRANSFER OF ieeATlcAL PRISONERS
AT THE MOSCOW STATION.


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d~St1as -ea,a ~ IN pnssa. ~ a~r,v.I 81
son,a ~ ~ rnrort1r.t n o,s-,,on ~ No
COW On their ,vav 10 tbe ,vilds az siberia
49,. r,.nd - -. - .h.i- li-.s - nj
an. convjc, in 10 ooo n allowed ~ ra,,,rn
- ~, ran,ota .nd inhosDit.hl. land
prah.h1v nat IL TO- hi1h 4 nroror.ion
onlv ~ Nv VII nav no~arfui frisnds al
'.orr. nj tha ssncarjtv ~ uhoea ranItanca
I. st,sstsd NV tho nolIca ar. callad back To
IN tha ssvor N tha roIica a nrisonar or an
III w,st hntrav yrtards and ravaa1 sacrats
snd 20 oh,.Jn : rsmSs.,on ~ santancs ,hs
- nnst - hroneh, n"r-onal,v hsfora ,he
c-sr-conds,ion mich can rsrslv bs fuI-
ALL
Tha Tina Ia aarlv morrino .Jnlv NJ Of the
r..-raes 49,, 49, q pater.b,rg has
~, antar tha poscow - tior and The
yhi.rar nas.s 49, mouth 10 morth Thai h
Lrin1s . co,vov ~ nriaonars hound for 81.
har5s TO- rawc ~ n. COMING had Inv soms
means got hrn,ted abroad ami several of
me onlaokerS have gone thither in the hone
Of ~gsttino ono last eI,mrse Of n friend or a
kinsman before he Is lost to them forever.
1rha oeac,aIs 40 thar utmost 10 transfar the
rcnvsctS Srom tha 81 petershur1 trim 10
he north train without attracting alton
,Ion RI, ,ha attemnt fails for sevsrnl Of
them ara In snch 4 stata that thew vyalk with
dielcritv ana have 10 be snnnorted ON either
side. others are utterly beIpIess-thev can
moi vail nj ali stretchers are senf for
INT ,he.a nroving TOO lar0. 10 entar the cars
tbs invaIids have 10 10 carried from one
train TO another on mems backs.
First amonr them 4 Iruenat Voloschenko.
sentenced Ia feu year, hard labor Tor The
narf he tool In the Arsinskv affair. and af-
Ia has nassed a wear IN the fortress on IL
Peter and 81 Paul and Is now only inst
alive. His aspect Is that OF a corpse. his
hody Il almost nntrid with sourvv and he
vrltbes In continued convulsIons. Next
comes AIexander Pubieff. Although he
does not suffer from scuryy. bad food
and tbe nervous prostrntion be9otten
of solitary confnement have reduced him TO
such a condition that he has lost the use of
his limbs and he faints Mt the SLIGHTEST move-
meut After him Fomin-once an officer in
thu army. now under s~entenee OF PENAL ser
yitude for life-is brought out He Is utterly
Unconscious and seemingly dead. and il 1.
only after various remedies have been Ap-
plIed that he Il able. toward evening. 10 con-
tinue his Journey.
Another. II possible. still mora unfortunate.
Is Paul Yellow. a Young man hardly ~ wears
old. tall Of stature and onee OF povverful
physiaue. Twelve months in the FORTRESS
have reduced MIN 10 a shadow of his former
self. He Is bent double. and one OF his lsee
being paralyzed. he Is unable to walk lie
is. besides. terribly afflicted with scurvy
and his face IL smeared with the blood which
oozes continually from his mouth and
gumS His destination and that Of
Tatiana Iebedevna q Kara. but IL is
hardly possible that either OF them
can reach that place alive. Tatlana
Lsbedevha, like Fomln. Il under sentence Of
hard labor for her natural llfe-al life. how
ever. which In the nature Of things cannot
last much longer: a few hours or
at most, a few days She is literally eaton
up by the scurvy. Her gums have disap-
reared md a part of the iaTbones ara strin.
tsd Of their nssh. Her faoe IL that Of \
eksleton and her fraI bodv "a torn with
co~usumptlye cough. ONLY this cough an
bar large dark and ann brilliant blaok ava
show that she vet lives Such arc the re
,nlt. Of eondn ament in the fortress al 81
Peter aud 81. Paul. a prison in the center OF
Russian civilization. and In which the car,
who "a nothiuv IL not reli0ious has con
tinuAlly his eve, What. then. must be the
horrors perpetrated In other and remote
prisons for instance In the fortress Of
Schlussebure situated ON the shores of tina
Silent sea and lately TRANSFORMED into a yast
n%olitical urison,
The lot OF the r.formens who ware san
fenced during the reign OF Alexander If Il IN
no respect mors tolerable than that of the
reyolutionists who ara now in bonds. uss
the term reformerl advisedIv for th.v ara
men VIM sought 10 attain thar auds ~ na.
ciao means-6y writing and speaking fbey
neither look part IN any re evolutionary move