Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-07-16

mitted the murder.
OF course the evidence against the
count was overwhelming. The enmity
between the two young men which had
led to the duel. the sudden reconcilia-
ton. the invitation to hunt on Kali
moff's estate. the renewed quarrel and
the gunshots heard by the beaters all
pointed to Kazimoff's guilt. He was
accused of having feigned reconcilia-
ton with DOlgOrOuki in order to lure
him to his remote estate and there to
murder him in the woods confident in
the assumption that his own retainers
would not give evidence against him.
No stranger had been seen in the
neighborhood for weeks, and no one
else was in that part of the forest when
the crime was committed.
KazimOff protested his innocence.
but his prOtestatiOns We're disregarded,
and he was found guilty of murder
and sentenced to death. The sentence
was committed to one of lifelong ban
ashment to Siberia. with penal servi-
tude for the first ten years. Before
his start eastward Count KaZimoff had
to undergo the terrible ordeal of being
formally degraded from his rank as
an officer Count KazimOff was brought
to the parade grounds in chains. and
two common soldiers stripped him of
his uniform and dressed him in con-
Wet garb before the eyes of the as
sembled regiment. This accomplished.
they took his sword out of it's scab-
bard, broke it and beat him with the
blunt edge of the severed halves.
Next one half of i<aZimoff's head
was shaved bald and the hair on the
remaining half cropped close. Finally
he was led around in front of all the
ranks. while the two soldiers ShOwered
blows on his bare back with the dread,
ed knouts used by the CoSSacks.
Count KazimoH broke down utterly
before the degrading ceremony was
half over and wept bitterly and to-
ward the end had to be dragged
around in a fainting condition. A day
or two later he started on his long and
terriblf journey to Siberia. 70 put the
finishing touches TO it all the last two
items of news that he heard from the
outside world before leaving St Pc
tersburg Were that his hancce had
become the brtrothed Of another man
and that Fedora TehlOtf had cursed
him us the murderer Of her lover. Dol
gorouki.
Kazimof was henceforth "ConviCs
No. 1OS'' and was dispatched into exile
in company with a gang of other I'M
fortunates condemned to the same
fate.
Their destination was Zistam. some
hundred miles north of Tonsk and on
their arrival there they We're put to
work in the mines. kuZimOH was
chained night and day to four other
convictS. all coarse. brutal fellows. and
all undergoing punishment for crimes
Of exceptional violence
For ten hours every day the five pris-
Oners had to work together in the
mines and at night they slept together
in miserable hut. When there was
work to be done, the four plebeian
criminals combined to give their arts
tOcratic companion the biggest share of
it, and when ratOnS were served they
took care that he received the smallest
share.
1t is a mystery how KaZimoff lived
through these terrible years at all, for
when they were over he resembled q
broken down man of seventy, though
he was only thirty tive. Thenceforth
he was allowed to inhabit his own hut
and to do practically what he liked so
long as he did not leave the village and
reported himself to the authorities
twice Il day. Rations were served to
him. and he received Il small allowance
of money for necessary expenses.
The truth about the mystery came
out before the death of IL workman
named Tebloff recently. Teboff was
the brother of the pretty Fedora. who
had hnpp thn tollSp pf the plJ) rrpl hp-