The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-31
Thursday, May 81, 1906.

water club, Pail Mall, the word Yes
or the word eUndeeided'g I shall not
allow you the privilege Of cabling
NO. And please give me a chance
OF pleading my case in person, If you
use the longer word. All, hear Jack
step on the stair. Very stealthily he
is coming to surprise me, but I'll sur
Here, the writing ended. She folded
the letter, and placed it in her desk,
sitting down before it. "
'fShall make the check payable
to you, or to the society,"" r
TO the society, if you please,
~ shall write it for double the
sOh, Madam, that is generosity I
feel we do not deserve. I should like
to have given you the letter after all
you have done for us with no condi-
tions attached 90, ::
81 am quite sure of that" said
handed him the check, and he rose to
sit down again, if you please: I
wish to talk further with you. Your
people in St. Petersburg think my
friends have not been sent to Siberia!
Are they sure Of thatf'
We'll, Madam, they have means Of
knowing those who are transported,
and they are certain the two young
men were not among the recent gangs
81 and to Re
at least that's what they say -
~ You ~ speak peak as !. i you doubted it,
They have been sent to Siberia
after all9'' = -. -:
'sAh, Madam, there are worse places
than Siberia. In Siberia there is
chance: in the dreadful Trogzmondoff
there is none.' =
What is the Trogzmondoff?o
"A bleak Rock in the Baltic
Madam, the prison in which death is
the only goal that releases the victim -
Dorothy rose trembling, staring at
him, her lips white.
IA Rock in the Baltic!'7 Is that
prison, and not a fortress, them"
It is both prison and fortress,
Madam. If Russia ever takes the risk
Trogzmondof : he i IS sent. They drown
the victims there; drown them in their
cells There is spring in the rock,
and thru the line, Of cells it runs like
a beautiful rivulet, but. the pulling of
water, and browns, every prisoner with.
in. The bodies are. placed one by one,
I, on a smooth, inclined chute Of pol@,
( ished sandstone, down which this riHu-5
let runs so. they glide out into space,
and drop 200 feet into the Baltic sea.
No matter in what condition such, a
( body is found, or how recent may have
been the execution, it is but drowned
J man in the Baltic. There are no marks
Of bullet or strangulation, and the cur
rents bear them swiftly away from the
rock. - s.: ~ ~.
tHow come you to know all this
which seems to have been concealed.
from the rest Of the worldgO
.isstA'I know it, Madam, for the best of
reasons. was sentenced this very year
ing between Helsingfors and New Y ork,
I took out naturalization papers in
New York, because I was one Of the
crew on an American Ship When. they
Illegally impressed me at Helsingfors
and forced me to Join the Russian navy,
s, I made the best Of a bad bargain,. and
being an expert seaman, was reason
ably well treated, and promoted, but
respOndence with a Nihilist circle in
London, and when / was arrested, I
demanded the rights Of an American
citizen. That doomed me- was sent,
without trial, to the Trogzmondof in
ADril of this year. Arriving there I
WAS FOOLISH eHouSn w IHiedteH, ahu osay
my comrades had means Of letting the
United States government know, and
that, battleship would: teach the
gaolers of the rock better manners.
tsThe cells hewn in the rock are COM
pletely dark, 50 I lost all count Of
time: You might thinkSw would know
night from day by the bringing in of
our meals, but such was not the case:
The gaoler brought insa large loaf of
black break, and said Sit was to: serve
me for four days. He PLACED the loaf
on ledge of rock about three feet from
the floor, which served as both table
and bed. In excavating she. cell this
ledge had been left intact with bench
Indeed, 50 ingenious had been the work
men.whog hewed out, this room that they
carved rounded stone pillow at one
end Of the shelf.
ttI do not knowzhow many days ]
had been in prison when the explosion