New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-05-26

hsd taken o pretxy Substantial dose OF AuoAnum
Once assured that they were asleep / made my
way through the little corridor TO the rear OF the
oar. have said that was In my own clothes
and without chains, and watching ss well ~
could in the dusk jumped at hist into what looked
like soft ditch. It was soft, very soft went
into the mud up to my neck However, was
not hurt and In this was more fortunate than my
friend, who also leaped from the train. He
su,ained his snI1e bstIy. To cover his tracks be
had bought ticket only half way to Odessa, and
bad bribed the conductor 10 let him ride further
. practice common enough in Russta. When.
therefore, the police tried TO ascertain any OF
the passengers who had bought tickets for Odessa
had left the train before reaching that place. there
vss no missing ticket and no Odessa passenger to
be accounted for. Making for the woods. NO
struggled to the first little town and there hired
kibitlsa and went straight to Odessa as the place
of all Others where We were The least likely to be
Nv poor ss,i companion had but ss7, an amount
barely enough to take us to Odesss and 90, though
forged passports bad been gsSvidea ior u.s. was
from sSs among The ssudent and 50 was
a. s ..sSS. q my d.sass
or or" Two al the REGION along TIE line q ths rail
Offers Of reward Of 1000 roubies 70, Information
that would lead 70 R ssptass At that time the
ssTs IN
Of the civilized world Mobs formed IN the streets,
largely Of studehts. saw Cossaok strike with
his AZ S
officer. whom afterward discovered to be the
in Ss OF the
what in my excitement had forgotten, that had
about me the q %ne wSSa give ,bs
SAH0 nf nNxy fpiAn1
the saw t ~ bu four feet
are better than two, and, as the feet horse over,
took scarcely kn sDS .r ghsf S Sow about Ss nv
thud on the generals illustIious leg, and at that
nc ITS ss BUT that now
again took to my heels and. lodging and doubling,
country and the woods where struggled on I'll
in the oisn air where ! fell and on awakening
ar stihness. hobbled along with my back to
the rising sun till I saw smoke issuing ftom cabin
/ went boldly to the hut and told the woCdman
Who came TO the door that was an escaped pris-
sure psssport to the Kindness and hospitality OF the
ordinary Russian peasant lie TOOK me IN ana !
remained with him two days lie informed me at
show me q secret way across the boundary.
was obliged TO swear secrecy on the blade OF .
r
other side aid him to secure contraband goods
How was TO do this am sure don't know. On
INV oath the smug ger closed his cabin and we
pursued our way through by paths and Lonely
roads and sorcss treaohs rous quicksands till we
were fairly across the Austrian frontier. Here !
hsde eood-Sy to my friendly guide and scrambled
along to the first railway town. WHERE used WINS.
near Vienna as possible. l got no further than
Brod. There I was at my wits end, The town
yss full Of starving Jews VINO VINO, mai i,h nh them up
and down the streets asking for brad on tne
day on which / took 70 public mendcancy an
order had trcn issued 20 arrest these paupef I'M
migrants and to ship them back to Odessa i WAS
sized with the rest and sent back, AZ the
nut through the bath Ny falls" beard and COM
Ps1Son wss az one @ to St.
and was recognized as that OF the wicked Nihil,st
who lcaped from the ttnin NY completely IN 'ne ne
the garrison in bed for SIX months was never sns-
pccted. and proof OF M personality ss the
assaiant was left behind in the bath
only in n special car but in special train Sur
rounded BY a body Of cavalry, ! was conveyed :.
the Petro-fAvelsky Prison who's arrangement
s snSS %aE n Understand wns taken at
before the governor Of the prison anil tod 10 name
those who had aided my escape. or course l re-
frst cell that have described this narrow room
was luxurious The food however, was the same.
and the inspection, II possible, more rigorous
From this prison WINS transferred TO the l.it"fski
Zamok. where | had the luxury OF two windows
which were, however. painted white that ! might
not see what was moving in tho outer world
After six months further imprisonment; no PROOF
OF any conspiracy Eihilistic knowledge bcins
found, was pardoned by the Car. but ordered 10
be kept under police surveillance for I'VE years.
with loss OF civil rights-that is without the pro-
lection OF the law against theft or even against
assault and battery. My entire property, or
rather that which should have inherited. hnd
hecn con6scatrd Nv first task was 10 visit the
graves OF nv father and mother. and then. having
accumulated enough money for the necessary
brihcs I made nv way TO Siberia 20 try 10 help my
brother / found It impossible TO aid him TO es-
cape, hut having elud"d police surveillance tmv
escape to Siberia ! was In no mooi tn rctnrn 70
il in Russia so made my way to Hong hong ana
thence TO San Francisco II L.
New.York. May 20. 1880.