Arizona republican., 1899-08-22
4 NgH!LIST'S REVENGE
Secured High Position 70 Expose
 His Governments CrueIfY.

] delphia recently whose adventures and 1 escape form a thrilling narrative. The
 man, whose name is Nicholas Ivanhce, i lived at Stavropcl until sever'teen
 years of age, at which time his father.
 who was a lawyer, undertook the de fense of man whom the government ! officials supposed to be a nihilist, but against whom they had TO direct proof. i The man was being tried fer murder. ! Tn endeavoring to acquI. his client he displayed more than professional
 warmth and interest, and, unfOrtu- nately, spent his own money freely [n his attempt to save the man, who was, however, convicted to pay the extreme penalty of the law.
 The convicted man became incensed
 at the lawyer because he had not cleared him. and when on the scaffold took a dying revenge that his lawyer had done ali in h:s power to clear him because he was, like himself, a nihi- list.
 This was all that was needed. and
 it was not many days before the law
 yer was arrested and thrown into pris-
 on. A nasty trial followed, and the
 unfortunate man was convicted and
 sentenced to be banished for life to the far-away island of Saghalien
 Nicholas went to St. Petersburg to
 try to make his living. There he found
 men who like himself had grievances
 against the government They were nihilists, and he jCined them. To him the creed that he had adopted repre- scented only 3 possible means of Ob-
 taining Q just revenge. He lived in
 St. Petersburg for three years, and during that time he became connected with the press. He worked hard and saved his small pay. With the money that he accumulated he studied the art of photography and bought himself , camera and outfit.
 It was in December. 1889. that he landed upon the island of Saghzlien. The first person that he met there was a man named Kiroff. who, like him self. was a nih;list. He was familiar with the country. and when Ivanhoe imparted to him the object Of his com ing 10 Saghafien he told him that 1t would be impossible for him to obtain a position such as he desired.
 Kiroff advised Nicholas to go to Nicolaievsk. which is at the mouth of the Omogoon river. in Siberia, just across the Gulf of Tartpry, which is several hundred miles wide and which separates Saghalien from the msfn- land. Thither he went and obtained employment as a sailor on one of :he vessels that ply between that port and SaghaIien. The vessel upon which he sailed was one of the government transports used to carry the exiles over to Saghalien Thus he became ac- quainted with some of the jailers and assistant jailers who guarded the pris- oners.
 After he had worked as a sailor for two years he obtained the position of assistant jailer at Alexandrovskii, which is the name of the town upon the island where the prison is located. So well did he perform his duty and with such apparent indifference did ie st1ike a prisoner over the head when ever one Jagged on the march that he made 8 favorable imfI essiCn on inc chief iailer.
 He was placed in charge of one Of the wards in the prison. His duties were to lock up the prisoners when they returned from the mines at night and to take them out in the morning make two rounds every night to each cell in order to see that all of the pris- oneIs in his ward were secure
 One of the first things that he dis covered was that his father had been killed few months prior to his ob- ta9nicg his position. He was one Of those that worked in the coal mines, and one day he had been crushed to death by the falling of a car that was used to raise the coal from the pits. Ivanh0e made up his mind to say at Aiexandrovskii and to secure every thing that would be Of help to his one object in life-the eXpc-Lng of the tortures and cruelties that were being inflicted on the unfortunate people that were confined in the prison.
 After two years soj0urn upon the island he was promoted to be a full jaier, and in his new position he had access to the torture chamber He made a careful study of everything about him, and every Il. ght it was his custom to compile a lot of nCtes of what had happened during the day Daily he recorded the death of one or more of the unfortunate wGetches who had found liberty and freedom in death. Many Of these died from d-s- ease contracted for lack Of medical attention; many. completely worn out and only half fed, died beneath the horrible torture that was inflicted up- on them. More than once Ivanhoe SdW SOiuG pOOT creature utter nlS F2SC groans upon the fogging board. These ba- harOus tCrtures he was forced 70 and when some prisoner would faint from sheer pain while be- ing dashed he would have to apply re- storatives in order to bring h:m to that he might receive | the full sentence of EGs punishment.
 Nicholas avaiIed himself of his po- l SitiOn to take phCL OgIGphs of these i scenes. This he was able to do be- cause he was generally the official n | charge Of the torture chamber He i declares that Of the 100000 exiles sup | posed to be upon the island of Sagha- ! lien over one-third have disappeared, i lnd that the greater pO!EiCn of these i have bsen done to death by the inhu- man cruelties to which they have been subjected.
 It was about this time that Ivanhoe 1egan to send back 70 Russia to the