The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1890-02-22
THE KARA OUTRAGE.
Horrible Deaths of the Female Pris-
oners In Siberia.
THE KARA OUTRAGE.


cable dispatch of Introduction from
George Kennsn, the celebrated Siberian
traveller, the London agent of the Asso
ciated Press called this morning on,
Sergius Stcpniek, the we'll known writer
upon Siberian political and socla! con
di:ions. Stepniak, when asked whether
be could give any information in regard
10 the outrage in the political prison at
Kara, in Eastern Siberia. replied that the
reports already published gave only
faint idea of the horrible tragedy enacted
AT Kara. Perfectly trustworthy informa-
fion, he said, had been received in a
cipher letter that tells the story only in
Its main outline. The full details Of the
dreadful measure cannot he long now in
reaching the Western world, coming so
soon after the publicity given to the
Yakutat atrocity. The facts SO far re
ceived are as follows:
A CULTURED WOMAN wHpPED TO DEATH.
Madame Sagada did not commit sui
eide, as the earliest report stated. She
died of the effects of the cruel fogglng to
which she was subjected. The flogging
took place Wednesday the 9th of Novem-
Der. Il w8 continued until under the
brutal blows the victim lost CONSCIOUSNESS
and lay as one dead.
The news of her shocking murder pro.
duced wide spreading dismay and anguish
among her female fellow prisoners, and
three of them, unable longer to bear their
wretched fate, committed suicide by
poison. The names Of the women were
Maria Kaluzhaya, Maria Paoloona Kar-
aleneskaya, and Nedoozyda Smiruith-
kaza.
CFFENsEs OF FEMALE PRISONERS.
Maria kaluzhaya was arrested in 1884,
q girl of 18, on a charge of disloyalty.
Every means tried to extort confession
duplicating friends was futile until C,l-
onel Katanski brought Ter forged state.
ment purporting to be confession of her
fellow-conspirators and promising i'm
munity. Maria fell into the trap, con-
fcssed, and her confession was used
against frienGs who we're sent to penal
servitude. Wbcu she learned the decep-
fion she procured revolver and tried to
kill him. For this she was sentenced to
twenty years penal servitude. Maria
Paoloona Karaleneskaya was O. young
married lady about 30 years Of age, of
good family. In 1871 she was sentenced
TO thirteen years penal servitude, with>|
exile to Siberia for life, for belonging to
secret society. Her husband was sent
1000 miles from the mines. The separa
tion drove her insane and IN 1881 she
was allowed to join her husband in the |
hope of restoring her reason. She re-
covered, but new governor separated |
them again, and she returned to the Kara |
mines. Nedoczyda SmIrnlthksza was |
33 years old, a student in the woman's |
college. She was sentenced to fifteen |
years, with penal servitude.
Shortly after the suicide Of the three |
women, q brother OF Marie Kaluzlaya, |
also died suddenly. Another exile named
Betikco committed suicide, rather than |
submit to the cruel humiliation and suf-
fer1pg of foggiDg.
THE FLoGGIEo WAS AUTHORIZED.
The fogging of Madame Sagada oc-
Cured under orders issued by Lieuten-
ant Governor Baronkoff, governor gen
cral Of the province of the Amoor, in |
which the prison is situated. The orders |
directed that the secret cdict OF March, |
1888, signed by Galkinaverskine, 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 officials in
precisely the same manner as criminals |
condemned for common law offenses. In |
what particular way Madame Sagada
transgressed the prison rules is not clearly
explained, but fogging a sensitive, cul.
tured woman to death for any lack of
conformity to prison regulations Stepniak
thought would impress the world with
profound horror.
The political prisoners at Kara, Step
MAX said, had in some way learned that
the political exilss imprisoned at Saghal-
coo had also been subjected to fogging.
They were constantly in dread of SINH ar
torture to that inflicted on Madame
Sagada
IT PLEAsEs THE CZAR.
Stepniak thought it unlikely that pub
lcatlon of the facts would force the
superior officials of Russra to take some
notice of aafirs, but the fogglng and all
other brutalities were entirely due to tie
direct orders from the general govern-
ment at 81. Petersburg.