The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-02-28
SIBERIAN ATROCITIES.
DETAILS Of WOMAN BEATING THAT
ENDED In DEATH.

DETAILS OF WOMAN BEATING THAT
ENDED IN DEATH.
An 0hicial Act for the Sake of EnSorcine
Authority and ~ an Exs,npls-A Story
That Makes the Hood Boil-Othsr News
OF Good aud M.
Sereius Stepniak, the we'll known writer
upon Russian political aud soc,at condi-
tions, when asked whether he could give
any information In regard to the political
outrage at Kara, in eastern Siberia. re-
piled that the reports already published
gave only o hint OF the horrible tragedy
enacted at Kara. Perfectly Trustworthy in
formation, he said, had been received In
cipher letters that tell the story only in its
main outlines. Tho full details of the
dreadful story cannot be long now in reach.
ing the western world.
The facts so far received are ss fol-
lows: Madame Sagida did not com
nit suicide, as the earliest reports
stated. She died from the effects Of
the cruel logging to which she was
subjected. Tho Jogging took place
Wednesday, Nov. 6. It was continued till
under the brutal blows the unhappy victim
lost consciousness. The news Of her
shocking murder produced widespread dis
may and anguish among her female fellow
prisoners, and three OF them. unable longer
to bear their wretched fate, committed sui
eide by poison. Their names were Marie
Kaluzhnaya, Marie Paoloona Karaleskaya
and Nedezhda Smirnitskaya. Marie Kali
uzhnaya was arrested in 1884, then a girl
OF Is. on the charge of %disloyalty. Every
means tried to extort a confession lmpli-
eating her friends we're futile until Col.
Katanski brought her a forged statement
purporting to be the confession of her
fellow conspirators and promising immu-
nifty. Marie fell into the trap and cou-
fessed aud her confession was used against
her friends, who were sentenced to penal
servltude. When she learned Of the de-
ception she procured a revolver and tried
to kill Katanski. For this she was sem
fenced to twenty years of penal servitude.
Marie Paoloona Karaleskaya was a
young married lady about So years of age
and Of agood family. In 1871 she was
sentenced to thirteen years penal servi-
tude, with exile to Siberia for life, for be-
longing to the secret circle. Her husband
was sent 1000 miles from the mines to
which she was sent. The separation drove
her insane, and in 1881 she was allowed to
join her husband in the hope of restoring
her reason. She recovered, but q new gov
ernor separated them again and she was
returned to the Kara mines. Nedezhda
Smirnitskaya was 80 years old and a stu
dent in q woman's college. She was SEN
fenced to the Kara mines for fifteen years
Of penal servitnde.
Shortly after the suicide of the three
women q brother of Marie Kuluzhuaya,
also a political prisoner, died suddenly.
Another exile named Kakokor committed
suicide rather than submit to the cruel hui
initiation and suffering of flogging.
The logging Of Madame sagida occurred
under orders issued by Lieut.. Gen. Banon
Korf, governor general of the province Of
Amour, in which Kara prison is situated.
These orders directed that the secret
edict Of March. 1883, signed by Galkinev.
raski, director-general Of prisons for the
empire. should be unfinchingly enforced.
This edict was to the effect that political
convicts should be treated by prison Off
Gals in precisely the same manner as
criminals condemned for common law
ofenses. In what particular way Madame
Sagida t%ransgressed the prison rules is not
clearly explained, but aogging a sensitive
and cultured woman to death for my lack
of conformity to prison regulations, Step
MAX thought, would impress the western
world with q profound horror.
The political prisoners OF Kara, Stepniak
said, had in some way learned that politi-
cal exiles imprisoned at Seghalied had also
been subjected to cruel fioggings. They
were constantly in dread Of similar torture
to that inflicted upon Madame Sagida.
Stepniak thought it not unlikely that the
publication of the facts would force the
superior officials of Russia to take some
notice Of the affair, but aoReinR and all
other brutalities were entirely due to the
direct orders of the central government at
st. Petersburg.
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