Los Angeles herald., 1893-01-15

Der was placed in company of 600 con-
victs. The men were bound together in
pairs by iron handouts, and the legs of each
were loaded with manacles weighing 1015
pounds These irons were never removed
during the journey
The convicts were taken from Warsaw
by rail and steamer to Tomsk, in western
Siberia, and then began the terrible walk
of 500 miles-much of it in winter. They
were guarded by relays of Cossacks. The
melancholy party averaged from twenty
two to forty miles per day and rested every
third day The prisoners were treated with
intolerable brutality. Gerber once slipped
and fell in a snowdrift, and because Of the
heavy shackles could not extricatc himself
quickly enough to suit the guard. That
demon clubbed him with the butt Of his
gun. knocking out two teeth. The miser.
able wretches were compelled To walk ia
the mud and slush when there was plenty
Of comparatively dry ground AZ night
they were hcried In shcsls like sheep
Each prisoner was allowed ten kopecks
abont five cents. for his daily naiions.
which be bought of the people along the
way. Gerber lived almost exclusively On
bread. water and tea during All that terri
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buy water. which vas fmnizhed WARM fur
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