The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-30
TALES OF HORROR
JUSTIFICATION MADE BY MILE
 SPIRIDONOvNA.
Girl Who Murdered Lushenffsy Chief of the Gendarmerie, Declares She is Glad to Die I'm Liberty's
 Cause.
Correspondence of the Associated

| (Correspondence of the Associated Press.)
 St. Petersburg, Aprfl 1s.-The follow ing is the Justification made by Mile, Spiridonovna, the girl who murdered Luzhenffsky, the chief of the gendar- merle, to the court martial which sen tenced her to be hanged. It is in every respect remarkable story. painting rvolting picture of terrible repressions practiced by the petty tsars" who ex- ercise all the power of life and death in the far away provinces of Russia. It Is as follows:
 Yes. I murdered Luzhenffsy, and I desire to explain my deed. I am a member of the social revolutianry par ty The discontent of the people with the existing regime turned into revolu- tion-armed resistence to the authori- ties, attacks on the officials and open collisions with the troops in the streets. Instead of meeting the needs of the people the Government used guns and bullets, but they did not succeed. Then thy invented the manifesto of liberty. But at the same time they invented the popular demonstrations of the black hundred outrages. The manifesto was only a piece of strategy"
 (At this point the procurator attempt ed to interrupt. but was overruied).
 And nothing else" she resumed "As soon as the bureaucrats criticised and the manifesto was overruled. they returned to their original plan of re- pression.
 The horrors of the reaction were worse than anything which had pre- ceded. over 200 men were murdered under the guise of executions. Prisons were crammed with every associate of the reaction who opposed the Govern ment. The bureaucracy deliberately ad conditions xvla f0t, possible for the peoples indignation 10 reach the supreme power and the off cial reports were filled with Tranquil lity, happiness and peace.
 T won't speak about the pacifca ton of the peasants in many of the prov- fences. won't even speak of the whole of the province of Tamboff, but will confine myself to the bloody work of Luzhenffsky. Villages which he visited he left looking like Bulgarian villages after Turkish raids. In the village of Pallodvar ten men were killed by his orders.
 Young Pavel Ziteff, through the self sacrifice of his family. had received a good education. He and friend went away last September to Luzhenffsky q $ the delegates of the peasants and he replied to their request with volley from his Cossacks. For four days he and his friends were tortured-tortured until they died.
 "AIexander Dubovrin. who was a so- cial democrat and came to the village to try to succor the peasantry; he or ganized a company for the betterment of their condition. He was arrested and put to the rack and died under the induisition.
 "I do not charge Luzhenfsky with being the man who inspired and or ganized the shame of Russia. the Black Hundred but of being the agent of some one higher up, But in the eyes of the committee of the social reVolu- tionary party, he was the evil one whose tyranny caused tho violations, typical of a representative of the bu- reaucracy.
 ..The social revolutiontry party seeks tn protect the interest of masses against the enemy.
 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 to which have been subjected am hsVry in that [ belong to the ranks of protect CTS of the people and that I am to die for their cause