The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-12-26

pose OF securing evidence against him;
and, as none could be found, the police
revenged themselves by denouncing him
TO the Minister of Public Instruction, and
the latter promptly issued decree expel
ling the Professor from the country, and
sending him to Siberia, for extreme dis
affection against the Government.
There was no trial, no investigation, so
far as known, no public charge, till after
the sentence had been pronounced and
executed, and then only by way of expla-
nation TO quell public remonstrance.
1t is often the case that an official re-
port OF the trial of accused persons is pub
lished in the journal, of Petersburg, to
allaypublic indignation. The latest pub
LEGATION of this kind related TO the inquiry
into the criminal activity of a secret asso-
citation known rs The Will of the Peo-
pie" whose operations exteaded from
1888 to 1856, and were considerably ey-
tended and dangerous. There were four
teen ue.sons sentenced to be hanged Mt
the conclusion OF this Investigation. One
was a college professor, the head of the
conspiracy, aged Al, several students, aged
f ON Is TO 2j, several tradesmen engaged
in harboring the conspirators, and four
women, one of whom was the daughter of
a captain in the army.
The women were, however. all of them
mistresses of the students. 1t Yves shown
that they had murdered police officers, had
attempted to muir Ter others, had prepared
dynamite bombs, had attacked post and
released prisoners, aud had o,tabl. shed n
printing Office for the publication OF reyo-
lutionary documents. The cvideuce,
which was colclusive, was given In the
ofiic al report, as was also the order OF the
commission sentencing them to be hanged.
At the conclusion OF the report was the
announcement that the Czar had commuted
all III, sentences, aud tie pr-soners had
been sent to Siberia for life
This publication was made for effect
1t was one of the maay cases in which the
generos " of the C.,a@ was advertised to
the people. 1t so happened taat the Car
knew of these trials But he does rot
! know half that il done in his name. No
oae can reach the Car without the per-
mission OF the police. 1t Is n crime to
address him in the street or TO hand him
| II paper. A woman was sent TO prison,
| shortly before We arrived in Russia, for
throwing n letter into the window of n
railway car ia which the Gar sat. man,
not long ago, was arrested for sending
him q telegram. The woman wanted TO
have the Gar know OF the injustice that
had been done her husband, and appealed
to his well-known generosity. The man
who sent the telegram was a crank.
Some years ago there was popular
actor in Petersburg, one of whose warmest
admirers was the Car. Meeting him upon
the street one day the Car stopped him,
and after q little chat asked him TO per-
form cert in piece at the theater that
evening, promising to DO PRESENT. The
Gzar oame. but 10 his disappointment the
performance announced was rot the one
he hld requested, and the actor he was SO
fond of did not appear in the cast. Send
ing al aid de camp to the manager TO in
quiro who his request had not been COM
piled with. the Gar learned that the actor
had suddenly disappeared. The police
were called upon TO hunt him up, and
promptly reported that he was in prison.
What for" loared the Gar.
For addI essingyo your majesty on the street
too day" answered the heal of the Third
Section. An order for tn actors release
was at once written aud carried 10 the
prison. The actor was brought into the
Emperor's presence. An apology was
offered him, and the Gar. much morti-
fed asked what he could do to COM
pens1te the actor for the annoyance
and modification he had suffered.
Nothing" replied he, "only please
don't speak 10 me on the street again. |"
AS rule the people of the empire en-
terrain veneration for the Car second