The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1886-10-28
NIlIILIST DEGAIEFE's ESCAPE.
Horrible Accounts Of the Prisoners Condition
in the Siberian Mines.

in the Siberian Mines.
The New York Suns st. Petersburg
correspondent telegraphs that he learns,
despite official secrecy, that the police
have received a full confirmation from
Siberia of the reported escape of M.
Degalett, the famous Nihilist conspirator
who planned and assisted in the murder
OF Lieutenant Colonel Sudeil1in, the chef
OF police, and one of his staff, nearly
three years ago. The police have traced
Degaielf to Geneva, and have vainly
tried to wheedle the Swiss government
into eXtraditing him.
The police are getting nervous over
tho frequent escapes from Siberia this
year. The few who have vcntured to
return to St. Petersburg have been re
captured, but the majority have made
their way to Geneva and London, and
the plotting against the government has
been renewed with redOublcd feryer
Since June at least twenty Siberian pris-
oner6 have escaped, including two caval-
ry officers and several students, some of
them escaping by way of Cambodia.
lhc precautions which are observed
throughout Siberia arc SO stringent that
the government is persuaded thai tho
escapes could not have been effected
without cOnnivance with the prison
officials.
SO great commotion hasbeen caused
by these repeated jail deliveries, that O
special comission has been sent to Siberia
to inquire into their causes, and to re-
organize the entire system of prison
government. a number of high officials.
under whose charge the escaped prisoners
we're, have been suspended, and some
officers, who were either criminally neg
hgent or else assisted in releasing the
prisoners, have been arrested and thrown
into prison.
The refugees report that the Siberian
prisons and mines are crowded with ex-
lles. Dlsease is rampant, and scurvy is
especially severe. The mortality, tRey
ly excited and rejoiced over the MANY
escapes, but declare that they will not
strike again until they arc sure of their
mark.
M. Dcgaieif, alias Jablonski, the Nj
hlllst, whose escape is related above, has
had an crentful and checkered career.
lie had been identified with Nihilism for
many years, but did not come promi-
nently into notice until the murder of
General Streiniloff at Odessa. For his
connection with this crime he was trans
ported to Siberia, but ESCAPED and
returned to St. Petersburg. There he
professed to have renounced NihiHsm
and offered his services to Lieutenant
Colonel Sudeikin, the chief of police for
the District Of st. Petersburg, and soon
became his confidential spy. On the
night of December Is, 1883, De.
galeH was seated in q room with
Colonel Sudeikin and his nephew,
an assistant detective, when, at n
signal from Degaietf, the door was
suddenly thrown open and Il shot fired
VT Colonel Sudelkin, which was immedi
ateiy followed by blow on the head
with crowbar. Sudeikin seized two
heaVy candlesticks and managed TO Sc
Vcrely wound one of his assailants before
he was finally overcome by the suneri-
orlty OF numbers and stabbed to death
Meanwhile his nephew was struck down
ana lett on the floor mortally w unded
OG8aieft, with the assistance of the other
NlhlllstS, removed their wounded accom-
plcc, and all made their escape.
Dcgalef made his way to Geneva md
| aiterward to London, where he intended
| to embark for America. He was do
tanned for some reason, and whom next
| heard Of had been captured on Russian
soil and sentenced to Siberia for life,
The murder of Colonel Sudeikin was
attributed to revenge for the arrest of
Nine. Wolkenstcin, who went to St.
Petersburg from Kharkof for the pur-
pose of numbering the Czar. Her arrest
was due to the energy of Colonel Sudei-
KIN and his nephew.