The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1904-01-07
TO SCAPE SEAVlCE.
Band horned to Elude W litary
D4,y in Eassia.
Amer icHFs Of Successful Operation
80 ".,.cratiug" Young sol
dIers Arrested by the
Ausn.rag.es.

Ausnor4I.es.
The largest ana in all respects the
mo-, A.. n44.aDiC bOuJ "a aimed men IN
tue woriU IS Inat serN Ing the car OF all
tDe uuas,4s. But service IN the Tanns
Is not taDetmed privilege to be sought.
a. aioCnsIL 10 thrown GA the Duroon oil
mIntary cohscription by the proceed-
iLS5 Ia a case WnICu has, been LUuON eu
la Ouessa Tor some liIAe wion eXcCp-
uonal interest. says the Chicago Chrun-
ice The attention OF the higher mill
tary authorities In that town was called
some Lime ago 10 ne extraordinary IN
crease Ia the number oil "lrCe tickets
made out by the divisional military doc
tors In the names oil soldiers VINO had
seryod but short pcriod on their term
with the colors. The Investigations SCI
on foot by the military authorities were
continued over large area with the as
sistance of secret police agents and many
oil tne soldiers to whom Tree tickets
had recently been given we're hunted up,
reexamined by special medical .anG
surgical staff and vigorously cross-ex.
amined as to their previous health ana
the manper in which they came to be
| physically or constitutioually unfit to
/ complete their term of service. Severai
| of the rejected soldiers acknowledged
! that individuals whom they had met
sometimes in the vicinity of their bar
racks, had induced them to liberate
themselves from their "un nbesrable bur
] ,,r hx,t i,,Y Wifi hafv
health.
The military authorities have sue
ceeded in arresting a well-organized
band of ruflians, whose sole occupation
for years has been the liberation" of
young Russian soldiers and recruits
from military service. At the head Of
the society was a certain Kreek, who
had under him several pseudO-doctors
and touting dgents The method en-
ployed by the latter was to invite young
soldiers singly to q restaurant, where,
after a meal, the tout enlarged on the
burdens Of Russian military service, and
the possibility of the soldiers losing life
in battle. or of his being drafted to some
distant military district where he Would
be liable TO the seyerest punishment for
the slightest offensc at the hands of arbi-
trary noncommiss.nned officers. WheC
at last the agent was satisfied that husi-
ness was assured with one soldier be
communicated with the head Of the so.
clety without delay and set to work tc
inveigle another. Kreek, the head,
would arrange an interview with the
latest acquisition, settle with him wha'
operation TO perform upon him in orde'
+ to incapacitate him for military purposes
and fix the amount of money he should
pay The soldier might, If he liked
chose to become deaf. n so, the doc
> tor" of the society would bore his ea
! and irretrievably damage the tympan
um. If he wanted n disease inoculatet
! into his system the means were at thu
disposal of Kreek's medical" special
ist.
The evidence adduccd during the pro
- tracted hearing Of the case aTains
Kreell ard others and several soldier
= who, in spite of their confession, war
tried before the same court-martial, ha
= proved that sums of 5000 even were re
ceived by Kreek fer the Liberation" o
2 some of the Russian rank and file. Tn
g details of some of the operations per
formed by the doctors" and surgeons
q of the band are too nauseau5 for publ
> cation. The guilt Of Krcek and tw
i others has been fully established. Kree
O has accordingly been sentenced to de
I privation of all personal, civil and prop
erty rights. and to two and a half year.
= seryitIlde in a correctional cOrps. Tw
d members Of his society, one a toutin
y agent. the other doctor" have bee
: sentenced to the deprivation of a
e rights and to two years servitude in
y correctional corps, while, among Others
Il two of the soldiers who submitted I
e operations have been sentenced to pal
y tial deprivation of rights and to serv
II tude in a military disciplinary bal
t. TALON for term of one year.