The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-01-13

next morning that he learned from u
sulky policeman that he was accused
of taking part in the attempt on the
life of Gar Alexander ii. 13th of
March, 1851.
Jalisal1off, up to that time n loyal
subject of the car, could not under
stand how he could be suspected of
such thing. But the policemen soon
cleared up this point Jallsakoff had
shortly before left his old lodgings.
and 1T leaving had given his porter
icft-oF overcoat. In the pockets the
porter found II letter from the nihilist
hibaltshitsh, who Il year and u half be-
fore had been executed for the attempt
on the cars life. 1t was, indeed,
very compromising letter In it
kibaltshitsh requested Jallsalloff to
give him Il certain promised. article.
What could this be but the material
for The dynamite bombs which had
boon used against the emperor? At any
rate, the smart porter soon came to
that conclusion, and the police agreed
with him. What good did it do .Jassa-
l'oF to swear that he only knew
kibaltshitsh at the university at the
time when the latter did not even know
what IL nihilist was?
What did it benefit him to assure
them that the article referred to was
only harmless waterproof, and that
the letter was dated from the year
1877? lie was condemned to hard labor
for life, and this was regarded as a
specially mcrciful penalty, for the
crime for which he was accused was
punishable with death The victim
~ t,.n, bod ~
NcrtSchinsllcr silver mines. which at
the public expense arc exploited for the
cars private funds. and, on account of
their containing so little silver, are
called lead mines. The transport to
Siberia lasted Il year and Il half. Dur
ing the two years that the prisoner
worked i'll the mines he suffered such
tormcnts that he became an idiot.
The following arc some extracts
from Jalsalloff's memoirs. On the 10th
of May. 1882, he writes from the prison
at Mini Novgorod:
81 AIN locked up with fifty others
within four walls. The cell is narrow,
and the mold covers the walls with n
thick crust. On the floor the dirty
and filthy straw reaches to our anll les.
This is our resting-placc: Two rows of
low shelves stretch across the whole of
the room. Here / should rightly have
room to sleep, and here the others do
sleep on the bare boards and without
a pillow OF any kind. But we have
given mp our places to the women Of
two banished families, who, with their
children, are following their husbands
voluntarily into exile. A man who
has ever seen better days cannot have
any idea of the suifcrings of c::ilcd
prisoners. lie cannot belicvc hi, own
eyes when he is thrust into such Il eel
lar, more wormy and horrible than
the grave, and is told that for the
future this will be his ali ode. Most,
so circumstanced, gasp for ;,ir, like any
creature accustomed to living on land
| upon being thrown into water. Their
| heads swim, and Il few minutes after
entering they faint Tut their com
| panions, the other poor wrctchcs, call
them back to life again. and IN Il day
or two everybody is accustomed to the
air of a Russian dungeon, filled as it is
with the stencil of corpscs, and full OF
plague and typhus germs"
Jalisal1off arrived at Tamsls by shin
from Tiumcn the nineteenth of Sep
tcmbcr. 1892. He writes:
The yard of the Tiumcn prison was
full even when we set out on the Jour
ney thither From the day of our ar
| rival our numbers increased continual
| ly, and fresh caravans of cxiles from
Perm and Ellatcrinburg were constant
| ly arriving. We were crowded ont of
our narrow pri sons. and at last when
we could no lon ger stand or crouch on
the ground regularly lay upon one
another. This was also to he our fate
on the ship. Nine hundred persons in
IL cage in which there was not even
room for four hundred. Among fam
lilies the stronger ones during the hours
of rest always lay on the floor, and
served rs cushions for the women and
| children, otherwise they, like them,
! stood or crouched about. The others
| arranged among themselves to Steer
| by Turns on the floor and on each
others bodies. At night time the in.
terror of the cage looked like large
! pit on the field of battle where the bod
les of the fallen have been thrown one
on top OF the other. The prison on the
ship reminded one especially of such a
sight When the voyage was half
done nobody had any money left, and
everybody fought for the food. MANY
of the sleepers were bleeding, and their
blood flowed upon those lying beneath
them. During the day the atmosphere
on the ship was vitiated, sitting and
| filled with sickcninG smell of blood
Then typhus broke out, and of nine
hundred prisoners scarcely seven hun.
| dred lived"
The frontier of Siberia, ut the spot
where Jalssallotf's party crossed, is
marked by square pillar. OF this
place he writes: