Arizona republican., 1900-10-08
THE MYSTERIOUS PRISONFE.
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 S5. Peter Sburg-The last band of eN- iIes has been sent to bleak Siberia As you have already learned by cable the government has announced that hera- afte1 prisoners, both political and crim- iua.. will serve out their terms III the riscns here instead of in the Siberian a:lIes
 In this last little gang of uHf0riu- rajts whose namss will close the long recCrd of misery. torture and uruttcr- able human suffering that Russia has I"flicted in the guise of pahli punish mtnt since 1891. there was q mysteri- us woman of gentle bir,a. l political T! isOner whose name and identrN lc- main a closely guarded state secret. All that could be learned about her here is tlat she was arrested for plotting against the government. presumably { iE ,' nnectian with one ,i the Nihilist groups.
 Many rum1rs are ahoat con ,e1ning the identity. some even asserting that she is connected with q noble Russian family, one member Je which is at tached to the court. and that through her machinations plans were almost completed for the ass2 sSinlrion Of the czar. No accurate information can be obtained concerning h=r name 0r uri- 1 gin, however, as the authorities even ] refuse to admit that trere is such a | prisoner on the way 70 siberia. Her arrest was not made public anl noth- ! ing would nave been known about her i had she not been seen 1tnOH.g the pris- , oners as they were being placed in the ! cars at Moscow.
 { Since then several travellers have sSen ] her en route. out on each occasion she ] has thwarted every effort to learn her story by absolutely refus'r', to tell any thing about herself or even reply to tha kindliest inquiry.
 H. V. Warrender, an EngiiahlGan. cn- countered this last exile band at a snail station in Siberia and siNes tha , following account of the mysterious woman prisoner: The train which had brought the cOnvicts from Russ-a was going TO further and they were waiting with their baggage beside the line for the one that was u take them on. It was hot day and the poor wretches were evidently enjoying theiI few minutes in the splendid air after a journey of probably many days closely confined in the dismal, barred prison vans.
 All the prisoners, with the exception Of one woman, appeared to belong t. the peasant class. They were stil wearing their own clothes, but each man had the half of his heal shaved and wore leg irons connected by chains to the girdle around his waist. They seemed cheerful for the most part having by that time becume used to tht idea of never seeing their native land again, and with many were their wive: and children, who would help them be- gin their lives anew in Siberia after their sentences were worked out.
 Apart from the others. but equally closely guarded. stood a well dressed
 woman of refined carriage and of al unmstakably superior class. She Wa:
 d political prisoner, the only one.
 think. among that common herd, bu her lot was the same as the rest. ShC had a slender. graceful figure. and 2
 face that at once attracted and hel( yoUr attention. You could not call he, pretty. but every feature was clear GU and delicately formed. It was the fact of a patrician woman of about 30. sad
 thoughtful. sensitive and keenly intel
 ligenr with an aquiline nose, large
 dark eyes and thin, determined lips. . Four sturdy. smooth shaven youne soldiers formed her guard. who wer, cnaGng each other and trying to b,
 funny. evidently for her delectation
 but they might as well have been mad Of stone. so little did their clumsy wiz
 ticisms seem to impress her. She ap
 peared not to hear th5m. and stood mo