The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-02-16
THE RUSSIAN TRAGEDY
What the Latest Reports Say About tho
Horrible OatIa6es.
First Reports Gave Only q Hint OF
the Terrible Affair--Ord0red
by the General Cow
eminent.

Copyright. isao, ny the New York Associated
LoNnoN. Feb. 1b.-Provitled with cable
dispatch Of introduction from George
Kennan, the celebrated Siberian traveller,
a London agent of tho Associated Press
called this morning OH SerRius Stepniak.
the well known writer upon Russian po-
liticnl and social conditions. Stepniak.
when asked whether he could give any in
formation I'm regard To the outrage i'm the
political prison at Kara i'm Eastern Sibe-
rim, replied that the reports already pub
lished gave only n hint of the horrible
tragedy enacted at Kara. Perfectly
trlstworty information, he said, had been
received i'm cipher letters that tell the
story only in it's main outlines. Full de-
tails of the dreadful outrage cannot be
coming com M SO 81 soon after the publicity given
to the Yakutch atrocity. The facts SO far
received are follows: Madame SiRada
ports stated. She died from the effects of
the cruel noGging to which she was sub
jected. The iioeeine took place wcdnes:
under the brutal blows the unhappy VIC
tim lost consciousness and lay one
dead: News OF her shocking murder pro- pro,
among the female fellow prisoners and
three OF them. who were unable longer to
eide by poison. The names Of the wo-
men were Marie kaluauaya, Marie Pa
Gloon Karalefeskayaa and Nedezhda Smirh
in iss4. a airi OF is, on the charge
Of disloyaity. Every. means were tried
to extort a confession i,nplicating her;
Katansli brought her q forged statement
purporting to be a confession of her fell
Marie fell into the trap and confessed. and
her confession was used against her
friends, who were sentenced to penal
servitude. When she learned the decep-
| tion she procured a revolver and tried To
kill Katanski. For this she was sentenced
20 20 years penal servitude: Marya ; Paw;
lady about Is years of age, of good family,
| In 1871 she was sentenced To II years
| life for belonging TO q secret circle. Her
husband was sent loo miles from the
mines to which she was sent. The separa-
was allowed to join her husband in the
hope of the restoraRe of her reason. She
resSvered, but the % new S sovernSr separ !,
| the Kara mines. Madeyhtia Smirnitskayu
was xs years old and . student i'm the
the Kara mines for Is years with pena
shortly after the suicide of the thrc.
| women "a brother of Marie Kaluyhuaya
| also a political prisoner. died suddenly
Another exile named Batakoo committed
sase s4ae hia,a .ass sn"" an submit .uern, IF IN,
dame H'sG siaSa ocsSrred @ adpRT,s under " ertier r
governor general of the province o
Amour, in which the Kara prison is sit,,
ated. These orders directed that tn,
secret edict of March, 1888, signed b.
Galkinerraski. director general Of TIN
prisons for the empire, should he un
fiinchingly enforced. This edict was Z,
the effect that political convicts should b
treated by prison officials in precisely tn
same manner criminals condemned
for common law ofrenses. In what par
ticular way Madame Slgida transRresset
prison rules is not clearly explained, b,i
the fogging of this sensitive and culture,
ity To prison regulations, SpeI
| MAX thought, would impress tin
| western world with profoun,
horror. Political prisoners at Kara
| Stepniak said, had in some way learne,
that political exiles imprisoned at Sagha
lien had also been subjected tn cruel tioG
Ring. They were constantly i'm dread q
| similar torture to that inflicted upo
Madame Sigida. Stepniak thought IL no
unlikely that the publication of the fact
| would force the superior officials OF Rli,
| sia to take some notice OF the affair, bU
| hogging and all other brutalities were CT
tirely due to direct orders from the ger
eral government at st. Petersburg.
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