Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-02-23
THE RUSSIAN EXILES.
Further Details Of the Horrors Inflicted
Upon Them.

icy Angle American cable % tho Dlspotcn'I
LONDON February 22.-Further details oil
the outrage IN the political prison NJ Nara
reached the Russian exiles in LONDON to-
day from friends who are located o snort
distance from the scene Of the horrors
They ere brief but conclusive, confirming
fully the report of the affair received mere
from an official in st. Petersburg. VINO IS IN
sympathy with the cause OF the people.
According to the details received to-day IL
appears that tho trouble at Kara prison
originated ina hunger-strlke" IN August
when women political prisoners trled 10
starve themselves to death 10 escape the
brutall.ies OF their jallerS. All women
imprisoned there abstained from FOOD
for fourteen days. The iailers did
not believe that they would be aDle
10 keep mp the struggle. AZ hrst
they ieeiod at the women. then tempted
them with food. and then finding tins OF
no avail. threatened them. When seyeral
of the women were AZ the point Of death
from tho,r voluntary abstinence from TODD
the prison officials res0rted 70 artlncial
means 90 compel them 20 take nourish-
ment. The methods adopted. however,
were violent and outrageous and the
women were compelled 20 abandon their
strike. Abominable outrages followed and
We're of daily and hourly occurrence. Ihs
state OF Affairs led Madame Slglda, whose
death hy Jogging has already been an
nounced. q ask for an interview
with the Director OF the Prison IN
the hope ~ securing an amehoraton OF
the condition Of the prisoners. his
request was granted. but when she was
taken before hun she found him abusive.
Il j. said that I'm her evaporation nj ms
abuse she called him a villain and slapped
his face f. IS not positively known, how
ever. what took place during the inter-
view. Int whatever did happen Madame
Sigld1 did not return 10 her companions.
She was taken from the Directors oihce
and conveyed ~ the prison m winch COM
mon offenders are confined. Three of her
companions from among the political
prisoners were permitted 10 JON her. AL
vices received to-day state that these were
Mary Koaie~ky. witcOf Professor koale~ky,
Of kioH. MADAME Smiruitskv. and Maria
koluiuy. Tie last two ladies were from
Odessa.
Two months elapsed after these events
before Adiutsnt Baron korcH, the Cover
nor-Gcueral of the province OF Amour, IN
structed tho directors Of prisons that the
secret edict Of March. ISIS. which ordered
that political nr -0acrs should he treated
by the prison o'irialsin precisely the same
manner %, criminals condemned for com
mon las offences. would be enforced, and
ordered the directors to notify the poi;tl-
cal prisoners OF both sexes that they would
Pee liable 20 corporal punishment II they
violated certain of the prison regu-
iatioua. Tho MILE prisoners fore
seeing immediate danger held con-
sultatiou and sent 10 the Director
Ctthe Prison petition that hoe would trle-
graph 90 the Minister OF the Interior ~
~. Petersburg. ra0ueSting MN 10 suspend
the application cf tine odict. The Director
refused to nav ANY attention % thor petl-
ton. and thrroupon the anon warned him
that the first hoggIng of ap0lltlcal prisoner
would he Che -lgu8l for the others % COM
mi suicide together. Three days after
wards Baron l0roH sent q special order
that niadu1nc SIgldl Boz punished according
to the regulations. and the order was exc
cuted 10 the fullest extent. Madam" Slglda
was stripped and received one hundred
ll-h.4 She wls carried of bleeding ana
lu au unconscious condition, AMI htrde1th
en.ucd from rupture OF the heart. Ter
tiroo c1u..nirr- committed suicide with
Inn IAN hour after the nine of tine hearing of
Madame Si..da'- death. The corpscs of
the four women were buried no the same
time in thr courtyard Ot tho common
offenders prison.
Torwrcks tho Gordon IF vigilance was so
closely maintained around the PRISON tnat
nothing Was known of what wa, happening
within
Since the secret channel Of information
has been r.Jpauod IL has been learned mat
Gil" men clrr out their tlreat OF suicide.
They Mst together, and thirty OF them
shared What poison they could obtain ana
then went to their cells 60 die. The guam
titvof the poison which hal been smugG cd
into tn. prison was not sufficient - XII
.ufc1tl, INIT IN the course IF the evening