The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1906-04-30

was literally mass Of meat, bones and
bloody rags. In the same village OF
Povlodar, forty were wounded. In the
| BerozoVsky village a peasant named
! Clemenoff was tortured into insanity
and in the village of Peskee two others
lost their minds Besides the shooting,
ebatings and slow death by torture,
other measures of 'pacification' were
used, such as the destruction of the
peasants property and grain, the firing
of their houses and the violation Of
their women. After his 'triumphaT
trips Luzhenoffski was ableto lay as
trophies of victories at the feet of the
bureaucracy murdered peasants, ruin
ed owners, assaulted women and bruis-
ed and crippled children. I forgot to
mention that Luzhenoffskis method Of
procedure when he arrived in a village
was to order the peasants to be as
sembled and undressed and then he
would go to his dinner and leave the
poor devils shivering on their knees in
the snow. Previously while at the head
of the town of Borisgolebsk he had
made a splendid exhibition of his pow
er. The town had been calm, there was
no sign of revolution, but after the
demonstration in celebration of the en-
perors manifesto, speeches We're natur-
ally madeto the joyful people, in which
large hopes for the future were ex-
pressed. Luzhenoffski not only arrest
ed all those speakers, but he arrested
according to his own personal caprice
or drunken whim any one whom he
choose.
He made searches, destroyed houses,
threatened every one with death, and
boasted at an after-dinner speech that
he had killed six peasants with his own
hands He spoke Of the peasants not as
men but as animals
Il do not charge Luzhenoffski with
being the man who inspired and organ
lied, to the shame Of Russia, the black
hundreds. Their organizers We're high
err up. But in the eyes Of the commit
tee Of the social revolutionary party Of
Tamboff he was the incarnation Of evil,
Of tyranny and of violations-a typical
representative of the worst side Of bu-
.reaucracy. He was advancing in his
career, was attracting the attention OF
his superiors at st. Petersburg and had
before him the bright prospect Of
powerful dictatorship in the western
provinces, where, by prosecutions, he
could become a pillar Of the system
which is suffocating the Russian people.
He was an oppressor of the people and
he merited death
1.-THE social revolutionary party seeks
to protect the interests of the masses
even at the price Of personal sacrifice.
It's aim is to establish political and eco
nomical conditions which will permit
the people to realize sociallstic reg
line, which means liberty, fraternity
and equality, will be reality and not
a dream. In the name Of humanity, Of
truth and of justice the Tamboff COM
mittee and / condemned Luzenhoffski
to death. With a full appreciation Of
the responsibility Of my act undertook
the execution OF the sentence because
my heart was breaking with sorrow
and it was no longer possible to live
with the tales Of the horror produced
by Luzenhoffski's acts ringing in my
ears. / had seen peasants who had
gone insane after their tortures, | had
met a woman who had gone mad be-
cause her pretty fifteen year-old daugh-
ter had thrown herself under the ice In
shame because she had been raped by
Cossacks, and after that no prospect of
torture could stop me from executing
my decision. And really the vengeance
Of the police upon me was worthy of
their most infamous traditions. ! was
crushed and subjected to all those tor
lures which the government used to
prate about abolishing. Everything
wrote in my letter was true. | was
tortured not only physically, but men
tally. / was struck In the face, my tor
mentors spat in my face" (Here she
proceeded to tell her judges the story
which has already been published, of
how she was stripped and beaten and
burned and violated.
She concluded with these words: TN
spite of all the horrors 20 which / have
been subjected / am happy In the
thought that, belong to the ranks Of
the protectors of the people, and that /