St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-09-06
EXILE BY ADMINISTRATORS PRO-
CESS.

ox hO-
| CESS.
From an illustrated article under the
above title, by George KEENAN,, in the
September Century, we quote as fol-
lows: "Exile by administrative pro-
cess means the Punishment of an OBJ
noxious person from one part of the
empire to another without the observ-
ance of any of the legal formalities
that, in most civilized countries, pre-
cede or attend deprivation of rights
and the infection of punishment. The
person so banished may not be guilty
of any crime, and may not have rem
dered himself amenable in any way to
any law of the state; but if, in the
opinion of the local authorities, his
presence in a particular place is pre-
judicial to social ORDER he may be ar
rested without warrant, and with
the concurrence of the Minister of the
Interior, may be removed fOrcibly to
any other place within the limits of the
empire, and there be put under police
surveillance for a period of five years.
He may, or may not, be informed of
| the reasons for this summary proceed
ing, but in either case he is perfectly
helpless. He cannot examine the wit
nesses upon whose testimony his pres
ence is declared to be 'preiudicial to
social ORDER He cannot summon
friends to prove his loyalty and good
ing upon them the same calamity which
has befallen him. He has no right to
demand trial, or even a hearing. He
cannot sue out writ of habeas corpus.
He cannot appeal to the public through
tho n,ass His cOmmunicat with
the world are so suddenly severed that
sometimes even his own relatives do
not know what has happened to him.
He is literally and absolutely without
any means whatever of elf-protection.
GAS an illustration of the sort of ev-
idence upon which the presence of
certain persons in the cities and prov
inces of European Russia is declared to
be 'prejudicial to social order,' will
give two typical cases from the great
number in my note book. Some of the
readers of the Century may still re-
member young naval officer named
Constantine StaniukOvitch, who was
attached to the staff of the Grand
Duke Alexis at the time of the latter's
visit to the United States.
From the fact that Is saw in Mr..
Staniukovitch's house in Tomsk a num-
Der of visiting cards of people we'll
known in the cities of New York and
San Francisco, infer that he went a
good deal into society here, and that
he may still be recalled to mind by
persons who met him. He was the son
of Russian admiral, was an officer of
great promise, and had before him the
prospect of a brilliant career in the
Russian naval service. He was, how
ever, a man of broad and liberal views,
with a natural taste for literary pur-
suits, and after his return from Amer
lea he resigned his position in the ma
Wy and became an author. He wrote |
a number of novels and plays which |
were very successful, but of which the
government did not approve, and in
1882 or 1888 he purchased well-known
Russian magazine in st. Petersburg
called the 'DiellO,' and became it's edi-
tor and proprietor.
He spent considerable part of the
of 1884 abroad, and in the lat
ter part of that year left his wife and
children at Baden Baden, and started
for St. Petersburg. At the Russian
frontier station of Virzhbolof he was
suddenly arrested, was taken thence
to st. Petersburg under guard, and was
there thrown into the fortress of Petro-
pavlovsk. His wife, knowing nothing
of this misfortune, continued to write
to him at St. Petersburg without get
ting any answer to her letters, until
finally she became alarmed, and tele-
graphed to the editorial department. of
the 'Diello,' asking what had happen
ened to her husband and why he did
not write to her. The managing edi-
tor of the magazine replied that Mr..
was not there, and that .
they had supposed him to still be in
Baden. Upon the receipt of
this telegram, Mrs. Staniukovitch,
frightened, proceeded at ]
once with her children to st. Peters c
burg. Nothing whatever could be /!
learned there with regard to her hus-
bands whereabouts. He had not been
seen at the editorial rooms of the
Diello,' and none of his friends had
heard of or from him in two weeks.
He had suddenly and mysteriously
disappeared. 7
At last, after days of torturing anxi-
ETY., Mrs. Staniukovitch was advised to 7
make inquiries of General Orzhefski. I
,he Chief of Gendarmes. She did so. a
md found that her husband was pris. P
fortress. The police,
IS it afterward appeared, had for some
ime been intercepting and reading
lis letters, and had ascertained that he 9
vas in correspondence with a we'll a
,nown Russian revolutionist who was II
hen living in Switzerland. The cor =