The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-02-17
WORSE THAN REPORTED.
Tho HORRORS Of tho Siberian Scnntlnl-The
Story OF tho Latest Outrage More Than
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[ IaN WORSE THAN REPORTED. +.
Tho Horrors of tho Siberian scuu,lul-The
Story Of tho Latest Outrage More Than
Confirmed.
LONDON, Feb. l6.-Provided with n
cable dispatch OF introduction from
George kennan, the celebrated Siberian
traveller, tho London agent OF the Asso-
ciated Press called on sergius stepniak,
the well-known writer upon Russian
political and social conditions. Mr..
Stepniak was asked whether he could
give any Information in regard to the
outrage in the political prison at Kara
in East Siberia, rumoIs about which
bad recently reached the public press
by way OF the Russian colony in Paris.
WORSE AND MORE OF IT.
Mr.. stepniak replied that the reports
already published gavc only hint Of
the terrible tragedy enacted at Kara.
Perfectly trustworthy information, he
said, had been received in cipher letters
that have succeeded iu getting through
to Paris and London from exiles In
eastern Siberia. These letters, which
are nothing but meager scraps Of paper,
tell the story OF the recent horror only
in its main outlines.
The full details OF the dreadful story
cannot be long now in reaching the
western world. coming so soon after the
publicity OF the Yakntsk atrocity. Mr..
Stepnlak thinks it can hardly fail to
deepen the sense OF horror already felt
by the civilized world at Russia's treat
ment OF political offenders.
L ~ FLooGgD TO DEATH.
The facts SO far, received are as fol-
lows: Madam sigida did not commit
suicide, as the earliest reports stated.
She died from the effect OF cruel
logging to which she was subjected,
The tloGging took place on "Wednesday,
the 9th Of November. It was continued
Till under the brutal blows the unhappy
y'clin lost consciousness and lay as one
dead. ~, Il Nf1'. -.
Tho poor woman never revived from
the terrible shock, but continued to
grow weaker and weaker until Friday,
when death came to her relief. The
news OF her shocking official murder
produced widespread disulay aud an.
gnish among her fellow-prisoners, and
three OF them, unable longer to bear
their wretched fate, committed suicide
by taking poison. f.5z.
NAMES OF TIE SUICIDES. e
The names of the women were Marie
kaluzhnaya, Marya Paoloona Karalei-
skaya and Nadezhada Smirnitskaya, aud
these facts are learned in regard to them
Marie kaluzhnaya was arrested in 1854,
being then girl Of is, on a charge OF
Tdlsloyaity. Her fatber was merchant
at Odessa. During her imprisonment
every means was tried in vain to extort
ircm her 4 confession, incriminatins her
friends. ca -. .-t'l-iIl 7i,,f,t' =.
Colonel katanski. n gendarme officer,
brought to her skillfully forged state.
ment. purporting to be tho confession Of
her ieilow.conspirators, and promising
immunity ii she aiso confessed. Marie
iell into the trap, confessed and her con.
tesslon was used against her friends, who
were sentenced to penal servi,ude.
when She learned they had made nc
confession, but had been convicted on
her testimony alone, she procured re-
volver, and, on the 2lst OF August, called
upon Colonel katanski and fired at him
woundlng him slightly in one ear. Fol
TINS attempted ASSASSINATION she was con
demnedlby court IN !rtial Mt Odessa or
the lGth.oi' September. 1854, aud sent
enceo TO ~ years penal servitudc. .,.f-
DRIVEN TO INSANITY.
Maraga Paoloona Karaleiskaya was
young married lady, about thirty.Avt
years OF ago, daughter Of q we'll knowr
landed proprietor in the south OF Russia
Paul Foroutsof, and sister Of Basil Vor
outsoi, one OF the bes. known political
economists in Russia. She Joined Sc
cret circle, which was surprised aud cap
tured BY the police in February, 1879
and sentenced to thirteen years pana1
seryitude, with exile to Siberia for life
and deprlyation OF all civil rights. HeI
husband, though not present, was sem
by administrative process thousand
miles from the mines to which she was
sent. u 53,s, ,5l M n ~ - ~ !. -
The separation drove her insane, ant
she was put in a straight-j jacket. In
1881 she was allowed to Join her hus
band IN hope OF restoring her reason
She recovered, but a new Governor sep
arated Them again, and she was returned
to the Kara mines. ,55' I
Nadezaada Smirnitskaya was thirty,
three years old, and student in q
wom9an's college. She was sentenced tc
the kara mines for fifteen years with
! F, DEATH RATHER THAN THE LASH, u
Another exile named Bobokoy com
mltted suicide rather than submit to the
cruel humiliation and suffering OF a tlog
glnG. Bobokoy was a university student
and took part In some public demonstra
non OF the students which was displeas
ing TO the authorities. He was there
upon ordered to make his residence n
l;flnga, snail villagein the Province O.
Archangel, the northcrnmost part o
Russia. From there ho attempted t
make his escape, and for this heinon!
onense he was exiled to the mines q
Eastern Siberia. 577fT,
The fogging Of Madam sigida occur
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