The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-10-08
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Fate of ~suspects."

INV .Jrstice Mirc"fF' -
Fate of ~suspects."
Mr. Borodin. a we'll known writer Tor the
pussian magazine. "Annals OF the rut,vi-
iand = was banished to the province OF IA,
-, n, account Of the dangerous ana
..,.orr,c;otisp character Of manuscript
,d,rI il, his house by the police during
search This manuscript was copy Oh aii
article upon the economic condiuoh oi '"e
,,.ovince of Viatka, which Mr. Borodh naa
sent to the above named magazine, put "nacn
mn IN that time had not been published MI
Rorodiu went 10 Eastern Siberia IN con.
vict,s gray overcoat with yellow ace Oh
diamonds on his back, and three or lou,
r,opths after his arrival in Yakutsk he had
,bo Measure Of reading in the Annals OF the
Fatbsrlands the very same article Tor VINO"
to had been exiled The minister of the IN
terror had sent him TO Siberia merely 10,
having in his possession a dangerous ana
,.neruicious" manuscript, and then the OF
Petersburg committee Of censorship had GER
titled that another copy OF that same manu-
script was perfectly harmless, and had al
lowed il 10 be published, without the change
of n line. in one Of the most popular ana
widely circulated magazines in the empire.
A gentleman named Otchkin, in Moscow,
was exiled to Siberia by administrative pro
cess in 1885 merely because, to adopt the
language Of the order which was issued Tor
his arrest, he was SUSPECTED OF an intention
10 put himself into an illegal position Inc
high crime which Mr. Otchkin was "sus-
pected Of an intention 10 commit was the
taking Of fictitious name in place OF MS
own Upon what ground he was suspected
Of an intention TO do this terrible thing he
never knew.
Another exile Of my acquaintance, Mr..
Y, was banished merely because he was
a friend Of Mr.. 2, who was awaiting
trial on the charge Of political conspiracy.
When Mr.. Us case came TO judicial
investigation he was found TO be innocent
and was acquitted; but in the meantime Mr..
Y, merely for being a friend Of this III
nocent man, had gone 70 liberia by admins
trative process.
In another case a young student. called
Vladimir Sidorsh Il use a fctious namel,
was arrested by mistake instead Of another
and different Sidorski named Victor, whose
presence in Moscow was regarded by some
body as ''prejuGicial 10 social order" Nladi-
mir protested that be was not Victor that
he did not know Victor, and that his arrest
in the place Of Victor was the result u
stupid blunder; but his prOtestations were Of
no avail The police were too much occu-
pied in unearthing ''conspiracies" and look
ing after Enthusiastically people 20 devote
any time TO a troublesome verifcati0n Of an
insignificant students identity. There must
have been something wrong about him, they
argued. or he would not have been arrested,
and the safest thing 10 DO with him was 10
send him % Siberia. whoever he might be-
and 10 Siberia be was sent When the con-
voy officer called the roll Of the outgoing ex-
lie party Vladimir Sidorski failed to answer
20 Victor Smorsks name and the officer,
with n curse, criel: "Nictor Sidorski. Why
don't you answer to your namet
1T is not my name" replied Vladimir,
land won't answer % It, It's another Sc
dorski who ought 10 be going To Siberia
"What is your name thenf
vladimir told him. Tho officer cooliy
erased the name Victor in tho roll Of the
PARTY. inserted the namo "Vladimi. and re-
marked cyuically: 1T doesn't make a ID
bit Of difference. Keauan In The
Century.