, 1890-02-20
THE OUTRAGE AT KARA
Further Particulars Made
Public.
Mr.. STEPNIAK INTERVIEWED.
The Flogging Thought 70 Have
Been by Direct Govern
mont Mandate.
fcopyrishtcd Associated Pres. soo.


I.ospos, Feb, I5.--Provided with a
cable dispatch Of Introduction from
George KEENAN,, the celebrated Siberian
traveller. the London agent OF the Asso-
ciated Press called this morning OH Sor-
giens stepniak, the well known writer
upon Russian political and social con-
ditions
Stepniak, when asked whether he
could give any information with regard
to the outrage in the political prison at
Kara in Eastern Siberia, replied that the
reports already published gave only q
hint OF the horrible tragedy enacted at
Kara Perfectly trustworthy inforna-
tion, hc said, had been received In cipher
letters that tell the story only in its
main outlines. The full details of the
dreadful tale will not be long now in
reaching the western world.
The facts, so far as received, are rs
follows: Madame Sigida didn't COM
init suicide, as the earliest reports stated.
She died from tho effects of the cruel
logging to which she was subjected.
The logging took place on Wednesday,
the 9th Of November. 1t WAS continued
until under the brutal blows the victim
lost con sclousness and lay AS one dead.
Tie news of her shocking murder pro
duced widespread dismay and anguish
among her female fellow prisoners, and
three Of them were unnDle longer to
bear their wretched fate, and committed
suicide by poison. Tho names of the
women were: Marie kaluzhuaya,
Marie Paoioona Karalefsksja and
Madeosyda Smirithkaga.
Marie Kaluahusya was arrested in
1854, when a girl OF is, on the charge of
disloyaliy. Every means were tried to
oNtort a confession duplicating her
friends but all were futile until Colonel
katanski brought her forged state
ment, purporting to be the con fession OF
her fellow conspirators, and promising
immunity. Marie fell into the trap and
confessed, and her confession was used
against her friends, who wero sent into
penal seryitude. When she learned of
the deception, she procured revolver
and tried to kill him. For this she was
sentenced to twenty years penal servi-
tudc.
Marie Paoloona karalefskaia was n
young married lady of about S5 years of
age, of good family, when, In 81 she was
sentenced to thirteen years penal servi-
tudc, with exile to Siberia for life for be-
longing TO the Secret Circle" Her hus-
band was sent 1000 miles from the place
where she was sent. The separation
drove her insane, and in 'ss she WAS al
lowed to Join her husband with the hope
OI restoring her reason. She recovered,
but the new government separated them
again, and she was returned to the Kara
mines.
Madeosyda smirithkaga was % years
old, and n student in a woman college.
She was sentenced to Kara for fifteen
years with penal servitude.
Shortly after the suicide of the three
women brother of Maria Kaluzhuaya,
also political prisoner, dicd suddenly.
Another exile named Betokoo committed
suicide rather than submit to the cruel
humiliation and suffering of q logging.
The hogging of Madame Sigida oc-
curred under orders issuedb Lieutenant
General Baron kaefi, governor general
of the province OF Amoni, in which
the Kara prison Is situated. These
orders directed that the secret edict OF
March, 1855. signed by Galkincvraski,
director general OF the prisons Tor the
forced. This edict was to the effect that
thc political convicts should be treated
by the prison officials in precisely tho
same manner as tine convicts condemned
for common law otienses. In what PAR
ticular way Madame sigida transgressed
the prison rules is not clearly explained,
but the logging OF sensitive, cultured
woman to death for any lnck of con-
formiIy TO prison regulations, stepniax
thought, would impress the world with
profound horror Oi the treatment OF
political prisoners at Kara.
Stcpniak said that he had earned that
the political exiles imprisoned at Sag
halcoo had also been subjected TO tiog
ging. They were continually IN dread
Of a similar torture to that inflicted on
Madame Sigida. Siepniak thought 1t
unlikely that the publication Of tho facts
would force the superior Officials OF Rus
sia TO AXE any notice of tho affairs, but
that the iiogging and all other brulnlitics
were entirely due 10 direct ordees from
tho general government ut St. Peters
halrn