The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1886-10-27
N.HIllsT DEGAlEFF's ESCAPE.
Horrible Accounts Of the Prisoners Condition
in the Siberian Mines.

IN the SIBERIAN -fAlneS.
The New York Suns st. Petersburg
correspondent telegraohs that he learns,
despite official secrecy, that the police
have received full confirmation from
Siberia of the reported escape of NJ.
Degaief, the famous Nihilist conspirator
who planned and assisted in the murder
of Lieutenant Colonel Sudeikin, the chef
of police, and one Of his staff, nearly
three years ago. The police have traced
Decaietf to Geneva, and have vainly
tried to wheedle the Swiss government
into extraditing him.
The police are getting nervous over
the frequent escapes from Siberia this
year. The few who have yentured 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 redoubled ferver.
Since June at least twenty Siberian pris-
orerS have escaped, including two caval-
" officers and several students, some OF
them escaping 10y way of Cambodia.
The precautions which are observed
throughout Siberia are SO stringent that
the government IS persuaded that the
escapes could not have been effected
! without connivance with the prison
officials.
So great a commotion has been caused
by these repeated jail deliveries, that q
special comission has been sentto 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
were, have been suspended, and some
officers, w,.o were either criminally neg
igent 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-
lies. Disease is rampant, and scurvy IS
especially severe. The mortality, they
say, is frightful. The Nihiists are great
! " excited and reioiced over the many
escapes, but declare that they will not
strike again until they are sure of their
mark.
NJ. Degaietf, alias Jablonski, the Nj
! hilist, whose escape is related above, has
had an eventful and checkered career.
He had been identified with Nihilism for
many years, but did not come promi-
nently into notice until the murder OF
General Streinikoff 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, 1888, De
saief' was seated in room with
Colonel Sudeikin and his nephew,
an assistant detective, when, at a
signal from Degaief, the door was
suddenly thrown open and shot fired
at Colonel Sudeikin, which was immedi-
ately followed by blow on the head
With a crowbar. Sudeikn seized two
heavy candlesticks and managed to Sc
: verely wound one of his assailants before
he was finally overcome by the superb
ority of numbers and stabbed to death.
Meanwhile his nephew was struck down
and left on the floor mortally W unded.
Degaief, with the assistance of the other
Nihiists, removed their wounded accom-
; plice, and all made their escape.
: Degaief' made his way to Geneva and
afterward to London, where he intended
. to embark for America. He was de.
5 tained for some reason, and when 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 ci
5 Nine. Wolkenstein, who went to St
Petersburg from kharkof for the pur
r pose of numbering the Gar. Her arrest
} was due to the energy Of Colonel Sudei
kin and his nephew.