The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1905-02-10
WOMAN SOLDIER KILLED,
Young Bride of a Russian Sol
der Enlisted in Army.
Strong Desire to See Her Husband
Was the CauSe---Killed
BY a Shell.

This is the story of Haratina, alias
HaratOn, Karotkievitch. thelRussian
woman who was killed in the trench
es while serving as private kof IT,
faniry. Stories of Russian amazons
have been written and denied so
often that one hesitates to. tell an
other
This story, however, deserves full
eredenee. Some day it will be made
public from the war Office at iSt.
Petersburg, as in recent report
General Stoessel told the Czar. of the
young woman's death, and express
ed himself as highlyspleased with
her conduct as soldier under his
command.
At the time of the outbreak of
hostilities the Inflated girl was the
month-old bride Of Jakoff Karotkie-
witch, a bartender in a small town on
the Chinese Eastern railroad. Jakoff
was and is member of the reserves,
and his call to the ranks came short
" after the first japanese attack on
Port Arthur.
He was attached to the garrison of
the latter place. and left his young
wife at home to look after his inter-
estS.
Haratina. anxious to hold her hus-
bands position for him, became a
barmaid. However, she found the
work so uncongenial that she event
ually gave it up, and an intense long
ing coming over her to see Jakoff,
she decided to pay him a visit at
Port Arthur. In times of peace
she had journeyed to the great port,
which is the mecca of the Russian
inhabitants of Manchuria, and now
she felt perfectly confident that all
would go we'll with her. She did
not mention her intention to the
neighbors, and disappeared, so far
as they were concerned, quite mys-
tenously from the town.
He was a very much surprised and
delighted Jakoff Karotkievitch who
saw his pretty wife come marching
into the trenches, attired in solder
clothes and carrying a rifle. For a
time he could scarcely believe his
eyes. The soldiers tell how at first
sight of him she forgot military dis
cipline and all that did not have to
do with Jakoff; how she threw her
rifle upon the ground and fairly
jumped into his outstretched arms.
Soldiers in the pits looked up from
their smoking rifles, eyes wide open
with establishment, not knowing
what to make of such startling dis
play of affection between men, and
soldiers, too. 1t took them some
time to become reconciled to Hara-
tinas presence in their midst, but
General Stoessel tells how after a
time they grew accustomed to it and
were consequently better men.
With her cap off and her bright
hair that had been carefully coiled
that the cap might conceal it tum-
bling over her soldier blouse ian ac-
cident entirely due to Jakoff's bear
ish caresses). Haratina told him,
and incidentally a hundred others,
how she had become soldier of the
Gear.
She told them how, after her ar
rival at Hardin, the military police
had arrested her and forbidden her
to journey to Port Arthur. Not
withstanding the great fear in which
Russians, and Russian women espe-
cially, hold the police of their coun-
try, Haratina disguised herself
in masculine attire and secured po-
sition as brakeman on train bound
for Port Arthur.
Shortly after her arrival at Tale
man she fell in with two companies
of her husbands regiment, in which
were friends of hers. In compliance
with their suggestion she assumed
her proper garb and arrangements
were made, not Of an official sort,
however, for her to accompany them
to Port Arthur.
However, on the night before the
day set for the company's departure,
Haratna was arrested and sent back