The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-09-14
HANGS GIRL ASSASSIN
Russian Government Executes
Woman RevoIutionist Who
Slew General Min.
CALLED HEROINE OF RISING.
"My Life Was All Had to Give" In
scrbed on Back of Photograph, Last
Gift to Sister-cheers "SociaI Revo-
luton For Land and Liberty" on
the Scaffold.

the Scaffold.
St Petersburg, Sept 13. = With a
prayer for Russian freedom on her lips
Senaide Konoplianikovo, the girl who
assassinated GenerassMin on Aug. 2S
in the Peterhof railroad station, walk
ed with firm step up scaffold and was
hanged When the black cap was being
pulled on the girl in loud voice called,
Long live the social revolution for
land and libertyp'
Orders had been given to the sol
diers in charge of the execution that
the girl should not be permitted to ut
ter a word. 1t was the governments
object to guard against any, words of
martyrdom being given as a powerful
moral weapon to the revolutionists.
But Mile. Konoplianikoyo outwitted
her keepers, and her shout of defiance
to the czar and his autocracy already
has been carried to every corner of the
capital.
Leaders of the forces set in opposi-
ton to the government say that Mile.
Konoplianikovo will go down in his
tory as the real heroine of the revolu-
ton. Other officials hated for theil
bloody repression have been slain by
girls but only this young woman has
carried herself with an exalted spirit,
appealing to all the best instincts in
the nation fighting for its liberation.
Had Only Life to Give.
One of the girls last acts was to
send a photograph to her sister with
this line written acro&S the back, MY
life was all had to give" That spirit
is taken by the revolutionists as signi-
flying the sure triumph of their cause
The girl refused to see a priest be
fore she died. Il made my peace with
Cod" she said, when | killed Min"
The earnestness of the young woman
still under twenty and unusually pret
ty, was wonderfully impressive. When
four soldiers went to her cell to lead
her out she smiled on them and said.
Il forgive you all. You may think you
are doing your duty, but your duty is
to fight for the libertylseslat is our her
itage from God" The soldiers were SO
moved that they broke down in sobs
Mile. Konoplianikovo besought them
to be calm 'Never fear" she said
'By taking my life you hasten the day
when Russia will be free"
Cheered For Land and Liberty.
Her face was very pale when she
was led into the courtyard, where the
scaffold had been built. She looked
around her on score of officers, bril-
liant in gold lace and decorations. But
only for an instant. and then she went
direct to the scaffold There were six
steps to be climbed, and she went UP
them without faltering. A sharp com
mand made the fumbling soldiers hur
ry with the black cap. The girl start
ed; then, gathering her voice in the
last moment, she sent out her cry fol
land and liberty. Her body was burieo
in quicklime.
The Jewish town of Koopin, in the
district of Kamenetz, has been burned
by peasants. Many of the inhabitants
perished in the flames, and some were
killed in fight.
Odessa's dead walls have been plas.
tered with manifesto issued by tht
"Union of Russian People," urging pa
triots to combine to exterminate the
Jews