Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-04-16

| Mn name Is Darrell"
symmetrical-that he seemed TO be MADE
| from the halves of two very different
men that had been split longitudlnally
acted as states attorney. He charged
the prisoner with being an escaped ST.
berian convict. Sergius Bilowski His
opening remarks were brief, and he
galloped through them at such gait
| that Darrell had hard work to follow
him. Witnesses were then admitted,
one at time, from an adjoining ROOM
They swore to the prisoners identity
with such alacrity that three of them
testified within five minutes. Darrell
was not permitted to question them,
| but at the close of the farce he had a
:, chance to testify In his own behalf
| AS if to make the proceedings perfect
| ly fair, nobody questioned him. When
he had said his say, the Judge signed
| some documents, md the officer who
| had brought Darrell in received them
'.The prisoner will be taken to Cred
skov," said the judge, land will be re-
turned TO Siberia at the earliest oppor-
tunity."
He then left the bench, vanishing
! through door behind it, Darrell was
| led back to the room in which he had
been previously confined. He was not
fettered, and there was no added sever
| ity in the treatment of him except that
an armed guard was placed within the
| room. n gigantic fellow with good ma
tured face, who sat on stool tilted
back against the door with short gun,
like cavalry carbine, across his knees.
Darrell had struggled to preserve his
self command throughout the tragic
| farce of the trial. well aware that the
approval of his own sense of honor was
all he had to hope for. He had main
1 tanned n calm demeanor from first to
/ last, and In his prison room he ad-
j dressed his guard cheerfully.
| where is this Gredskov!" he asked.
"Gredskov." was the reply, with a
/ sort of plying grin. sis prison city in
! the Caucasian mountains. 1t is MAIN
! tanned for the purpose of guarding the
! captives taken among the rogues of
4 the mountuins-Ci rcassians. robbers,
/ Turks or any Of the bad men who seek
to plot against the car. Every three
months prison train Is made up for
| Siberia, where the prisoners are d.
| vided among the mining towns"
1 Darrell's stay In Stavropol was short.
I On the following morning he was
placed with about dozen other prison.
ers, all seemingly of the lowest type of
peasants. and was conducted under u
strong guard to the city gate. He had
not been dressed in any sort of prison
garb and still retained his minor be-
longlngs and the money that the
searchers had missed. but his hat had
been replaced by cap and his over
coat by ragged garment that might
have been n part OF All officers outfit
In the far past.
Outside of Stavropol the road was
smooth for a considerable distance. and
/ the cavalcade moved slowly along
I through rural scene Of what might
have been prosperous comfort and
wealth had 1t not been for the stagna-
ton arising from the policy OF the
deputized government of Getchlkor.
At the end of the days march they
] rested at Il little post village. In the
morning they again advanced and ut
night reached Glugiersk. on tho main
/ road leading to the pass over the eau
casus to Tifls.
Darrell was treated with no more
and no less consideration than any
other of the prisoners. To the officers
and soldiers of the escort he was sim
4 ply the nihilist Sergius Blowski, and
no argument could make him anything
more.
I. After leaving Glugiersk the way be-
came more rugged, though the road It.
self was smooth and hard, travelled as
1t was by the numerous trading cara.
vans from north to south that crossed
and recrossed the mountains.
Finally they reached Mozdok, where
stay Of two days was made. Their
next stopping place was vladlkaukas,
on the upward slope Of the steep noun
tain pass.
Ten hours after leaving Viadikaukas.
in the morning. the turrets of Cred
skov could be seen.
Darrell knew nothing Of Gredskov,
and as none Of the soldiers would talk
to him and he was not allowed to
speak to his fellow prisoners he could
obtain no information in regard to It.
But as the frowning battlements could
be seen rising above the trees he no.
ticed that the other prisoners became
more detected. and their faces express.
ed terrible fear.
1t appeared, then, that Gredskov was
place to be dreaded.
AT the gate of Gredskov the cavalcade
was met by an officer, who halted the
prisoners and took from the captain Of
the escort paper. This contained the
list Of names, and the two officers went
over it together.
Even then Darrell was not allowed
to speak, though he made n desperate
attempt to tell the officer at the gate
who he was.
Without ceremony he was taken from
the column of prisoners, handed ovel
to fresh guards and rudely hustled
Into a low building that was built close
to and under the city wall
Here he was thrust into n dungeon
that was foored with stone, walled
with stone and rooted with stone
There was one little window, which
opened high in the wall. Through thi.
narrow aperture, when standing upol
his table, he could see an esplanade
upon which regiments Of the city,