The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1890-02-27
FLOGGED 4 WOMAN.
HOW MADAME SIGIDA DIED UN-
DER TIE CXAR'S KNOUT.

| 3tf0clt1cS.
Provided with cable dispatch of in
PRODUCTION from Geo. Kenan, the Gel
cbrated Siberian traveller, the London
agent Of the Associated Press called
on Serguis Etephnian, ,ssthe well known
writer upon Russia's political and SER
ial conditions. Stephnian was asked
whether he could give any informa-
ton in regard TO the outrages in the
political prison at Kara in Eastern ST.
beria, rumorS about which had re-
Gently reached the public press by
way Of the Russian colony in Paris.
ONLYA HINT Of THE TRAGEDY.
Stephnian stated that the reports
already published gave only hint of
the horrible tragedy enacted ut Kara.
Perfectly trustworthy information, he
: said, had been received in cipher let
tcr$ that succeeded in getting through
to Paris and London from cXiles in
Eastern Siberia. These letters, which
are nothing but ineagre scraps Of pa
| per, tell the story of the recent horror
only in its main outline, but one who
knows about Siberian life does not
need Il circumstantial recital to un-
deIstand the cruelty Of the discipline
and the agony of suffering of which
this horror was the elimination. The
| full details of the dreadful story can
not bc long now in reaching the Wes-
tern world, coming SO soon after the
publicity given to the Yakutsh afro
CITY. 1t IAN hardly fail TO deepen the
| sense Of horror already felt by the
civilized world at Russia's treatment
Of political offenders.
! ONE WOMAN FLOGGEDTo TO DEATH AND
THREESUlCIDE.
The Facts SO far received arc as fol.
lows: Madame Sigida did not COM
NIT suicide, as the earliest reports
| stated. She died from the effects of a
cruel llogGing to which she was sub
jected. The jlogging took place Wed.
| ncsday, tie 9th Of November. 1t was
! continued until under the brutal blows
! the unhappy victim lost consciousness
and lay as one dead. The poor wo-
man 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 dismay and anguish
among her follow prisoners and three
Of them, unable longer to bear their
! Wretched fat, committed suicide by
taking poison. How they obtained
the poison is not known, but probably
they had it long time in their pos.
session and were keeping it as o last
resort. The NAMES Of the women
were Marie kalush, Maria radlovina
Karalolskega and Nadesenta Smir-
netka.
SAD FATE OF \ GIRL.
Maria Kalush was arrested in 1882,
being then n girl Of Is, on charge OF
disloyalty. Her father was Il merch-
ant at Odessa. During her imprison-
ment every means was tried in vain TO
extort tIcm her confession implica-
ting her friends. At last Col. Katus-
kye gen d'armc officer, brought to
her a Skillfully forged statement, pur-
porting to be confession from her
fellow conspirators, and promised im-
munity if she also confessed. Marie
fell into tie tra,, and confessed, and
her confession was used against her
friends, who were sentenced to penal
servitude. When she learned they
had made no confession, but had been
convicted on her testimony alone, she
procured a revolver and on Aug. 21
called upon Col. Katuskya and fired
at him, wounding him slightly. For
this attempted assassination she was
condemned by court martial at Odes
sa on Sept. 10, 1884, and sentenced to
twenty years penal scrvitude.
TORN FROM HER HUSBAND, REASON
TLEES.
Mary Padlovina Karalefsk ega wa:
young married lady 35 years of az,
Il daughter of we'll known landed
proprietor in the south of Russia
Paul Vorautsog, and a sister of Basi
Vorautsolr, enc Of the best know
e political economists in Russia. Sh
s joined secret circle, which was sur,
! priscd and captured by the police il
a February, 1879, and was sentenced t.
thirteen years penal servitude wit
exile to Siberia for life and depriva
ton Of all civil rights. Her husband
though not present, was sent by a
: administrative process Il thousan
miles from tho mines to which sh
I was sent. The separation drove he
Il insane and she was put in a straigl
| jacket. In 1881 she was allowed t
c join her husband in the hope of restol
Z ing her reason. She recovered, bu
y the new governor separated thel
8 again and she was restored to tn
7, Kara mines.
J. Nadesenta Smirnctzka was 33 yeal
II old and astudent in a,woman's colleg
, She was sent to the Kara mines il
;. fifteen years with penal servitude.
u HORROR DRIVES TWO MEN TO DEATI
shortly after the suicide Of til
three women, a brother Of Marie Ki
lush, also a political prisoner, die
4 suddenly. 1t is not definitely know
st as yet whether he too died by poiso
le or whether his death was the result
ID overpowering grief on learning of Il
n death Of his sister.
o. Another exile, named Bobokov
al committed suicide rather than submit
re the cruel humiliation and suffering
/. hogging. BobOkovo was universit
al student and took part in some publ
I'd demonstrations Of the students whit
le were displeasing to tho authorize
al He was therefore, ordered to nal
ly his abode at Pinego, a small village
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