The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-09
INDICTMENT
 OF M. GORKY Interesting Document is
 Discovered. AUTHORSHIP IS ADMITTED Killing of W0rkmen Preme- ditated Massacre. In Strong and Feeling Terms the ra- nous Russian Plays the Author tties for Their Crimes of
 the Past.

St. Petersburg. April s.--The indict- ment of Maxim Gorky who Is styled therein "an artisan of Nizhni Novgo- rod, Alexis Maximoff Mesohokoff." con tains the text of document found in the St. Petersburg residence of Advo- cate Eugene Kadr3ne and the author ship of which Gorky is alleged to have admitted. This document styles the shooting of the workmen premodi- tated massacres. accuses Prince Svia- topolk-Mirsky (who at the time was Minister of the Interior) of wilful and unprovoked murder. It continued:
 Emperor Nicholas was informed of the character of the workmen's move ment and the peaceful intentions of his late subjects. the innocent victims killed by soldiers, but notwithstanding this knowledge, he allowed them to be massacred. We. therefore, accuse him also of having caused the killing of people who in no wise provoked such measures"
 The document details the event of Sunday. January 22, the day on which the troops fired on the workmen in St. Petersburg and points out the ab- sence of revolutionary character to the demonstration. The document Q says the people went to the president of the ministers, to whom they ex- pressed fear that blood would be shed. NJ. Witte replied that Minister of the Interior Sviatopolk- Mlrsky was more accurately informed as to the state of affairs but Emperor Nicholas had heen made acquainted with the situation M. Witte added that personally he was impotent to do anything.
 The prince's Refusal.
 He teiephonod to Prince Sviatopolk- Mirsky. asking the Minister of the In- terior if he would receive tho deputn- ton but Prince Sviatopolk- -Mirsxy re- fused to do so. The document con- cludes:
 We declare that such an order of things rsnnet longer be tolerated and call on 7 ! z'3As of Russia to tat4f into ai: | stS aud reIcntless st.ag- gleSsitlf fhe causncracy. The itf5iet. ment sets forth that Gqrky admitted ir writing that he composed the docu. ment referred to above with a view tc sending 1t to all St. Petersburg news papers, hoping that at least one of them would publish 1t. After describing Gorky's discussions with the workmen the indictm says:
 He went on the evening of January 21 to the offices of The Journal Nash idnf, where 1t was decided to appoint a deputation to walt on Interior Minis ter Sviatopolk-M -Mirsky for the purpose of begging him as minister and as a man to take all possible measures to prevent conflict between the workmen and the police and troops. The depu tation included Gorky, whose account of its reception. according to his own avowal, was written at his own initia- tive and without informing his col leagues, who only became acquainted with its contents later"
 The document accuses Gorky of ap- pealing to the people through the doc ument to overturn the existing social regime and says that the fact that the document was not circulated was due to circumstances outside of Gorky's control.
 The trial of Gorky will be behind closed doors.