St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-20

ball in his ear" Another observed
that he ought to be finished off. Sim
liar remarks were made about all the
wounded, aud | expected at each mo-
ment to receive ms death blow. At
some distance from me [ saw the dead
body of Monkanoff, and lutte further
off Of Notkine. The wife of Bernstein
was imploring to be allowed to remain
near her husband, who was wounded,
but when she sought to en-
ter the house, the soldiers
nearly stabbed her with their bayo
nets. She tiled to complain to the of
ficer, Karamtiue, but he replied that
there would have been no great harm if
she had also been killed. l saw, when
they picked up the dead bodies, the
body of Pix dragged out of the house
by his feet and violently thrown across
a sledge. Podbelsky, who was still
breathing, was thrown in with the dead.
was at that moment lying down in q
sledge that was to convey me to prison.
shouted with all my strength that
Podbelsky was still alive. L begged the
police officer, OleSsoff, to intervene.
but he paid no attention to what
said. A person passing by heard my
cries, and, having llade some inquiries.
1t was on his interceSSion that the dying
man was separated from the dead.
When we approached the hospital
prison we met the escort that was con-
veying to prison those OF our friends
who were not wounded. What is the
uSe," exclaimed some of these soldiers
to the men of our escort, ''of incumber-
ing the hopital with that riff-raff? You
would have done much better to have
killed them off at once" 1.-The doctors
will see to that" replied our men.
Such is the description given of this
uncalled for butchery. Altogether six
of the eXiles were killed, namely Pix,
PodbeliSky, Moukhanoff, Chour, Not
kline and Mile. Gourewitch. Nine were
wounded. namely. Kohan-B Bernstein,
Zototf. Minor, Orloff, GatZ, Foundamn-
sky. EStrowitch, Kanher and Mile.
Zoroastroff. On the side of the authori-
ties the policeman, KhIebnikOff. was
killed; the governor. UstaShine. the Of
ficer Karamtine and the soldier GorloW-
sky. three i'll all, were wounded.
TRIED BY COURT MARTIAL.
From the yard and house of NOtkine
the eXileS were, 1t has been seen. all
conveyed to prison. BY order of the
governor of Eastern Siberia, Gen. Igna-
tieff, brother to the celebrated diploma
fist, court martial was instituted. This
was done under the preteXt that the
simultaneous preparation and prcSenta-
ton of thirty similar petitions against
an official decree constituted an act of
insurrection. The governor Osta-
shine made a claim in this sense
code. The butchery had taken place on
the 4th of April; the witnesses were not
confronted till the month of May. The
officer, Karamtine, bore witness against
Zototf for having fired agaiI st the gov
ernor. This was shown only by 70
tof's own testimony, as, in the c0nfu-
sion, no one had noticed him. 1t was
proved that some of the witnesses for
the prosecution had asked the authori-
ties to tell them against whom they were
expected to testify. One of these false
witnesses pointed haphaZard at the
prisoners, and CHANGED to single out
Hausmann. This was the only testimony
against Hausmann. A search was made
in his house in the town, and his re-
volver was found there. thus proving
that at the time he was not armeI.
When they were taken to the hospital
some policemen indicated to them Bern
stein as having fired, and urged them TO
bear witness against him. Yet Bern
stein could not have fired. as at the frs t
discharge from the soldiers he fell
wounded in four places. A certain
NadaIef, who had come up after the
disturbance was over, was also seized
and thrown into prison.
BORNE ON HIS BED TO THE GALLONS.
The court martial VS. constituted in
very feeble manner. The president,
YermakOff, was only Sul,-lieutenant,
who had risen from the ranks. and for
secretary there was government clerk
named FedOrOtf. The official trial began
on the 18th of June. The preliminary
inquiry had established that the sol
diers had their guns already loaded;
that cartridges were distributed to
them the previous evening, and they
were then informed that they
would have to fire upon the eXileS.
Also the police agent, Khlebnikoff,
bore testimony before dying that he had
been wounded accidentally by the SOL
dierSs and was not shot by the exilps.
by the time. however, that the case
came up for trial, the soldiers declared
that it was the eXileS who had killed
Khlebuikoff. The trial was not public.
Only soldiers and police were admitted.
No one was allowed to defend the pris-
oners, and they were not even shown
the indictment made against them.
They were only asked to confirm the
results of the previous inquiries,
without being told what these ru-
suits were. After what, from this ac-
count, seems mere mock trial. Haus-
mann, KOhan-Bernslein and ZOtOtf
were condemned to death. Four others
were sentenced to penal servitude for
life, and six for twenty years. Four
women, among whom was the wife of
Bernstein, were condemned to hard
labor for fifteen years; one only to
penal servitude for ten years, two for
eight years, and the young girl Eugenie
GoureWitch, who was betrothed to
ZotOff, and whose sister had been killed,
to six years. Mile. Zoroastrotf, who
was also engaged to one of the eXileS,
and who was wounded, together
with two men, were sentenced to lose
all civil rights and to transportation to
the furthest limits of the Yakoutsk dis
trict. One prisoner only escaped with
three years imprisonment, and Mad
aieff, who came up when all was over,
was the only person acquitted.
The three men condemned to death
were taken away from their friends and
put in separate cells. On the 18th of
August they were removed to a mill
itary post, whence they could see all
the preparations made for their exc
cution; but they were allowed during
| the night to receive visits from their
wives and betrothed. Zotoff met his
death with great compoSure.