The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-30
Paints ReVoIiiRg Picture of Re- pftssions of "Pstiy Izafs''
GONFESSES ID 4 MURDER
Happy that She Is to Die in the Cause of the People Who Have Suffer ed From Hands of the
 Bureaucracy.

St. Petersburg, April l9.--fCorrespOnd- ence of the Associated Press)--The fol- lowing is the justification made by Mile. spirdonovna, the girl who murdered Iuzhennslly. the chief of the gendarme- rle, to the courtmartial which sentenced her to be hanged. It is in every respect a remarkable story painting a revolting picture of terrible repressions practiced by the petty tsars, who exercise all the power of life and death in the far away provinces of Russia.
 It is as follows
 Yes I murdered LuzhenffsSy. and I desire to explain my deed. I am mem Der of the social revolutionary party. The discontent of the people with the existing regime turned into revolution-armed re sistance to the authorities, 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 they invented the mani festo of liberty. But at the same time they invented the popular demonstrations of the Black Hundred outrages. The man ifesto was only piece of strategy"
 
 Manifesto Mockery.
 At this point the procurator attempted to interrupt but was overruled.
 And nothing else she resumed. As soon as the bureaucrats criticised and the manifesto was overruled. they re turned 10 their original plans of repres- sion.
 "The horrors of the reaction were worse than anything which had preceded. Over two hundred men were murdered under the guise of executions Prisons were crammed With every associate of shc re- action who opposed the government. The bureaucracy deliberately created condi- tions which made 1t impossible for the countless indignations to reach the su- preme power, and the official reports were filled with tranquility. happiness and peace.
 .'I won't speak about the pacification of the peasants in many of the provinces. won't even speak of the whole of the province of Tamboff, but will confine myself to the bloody work of Luzhenn- sky Villages which he visited he left looking like Bulgarian villages after Turkish raids. In the village of Pallod- var ten men were killed by his orders.
 ziteff Tortured to Death.
 "Young Pavel ziteff, through the self sacrifice of his family, had received a good education. He and friend went away last September to Luzhenffsky as the delegates of the peasants and he re- piled to their request with volley from his Cossaks For four days he and his friend were tortured-tortured until they died
 Alexander Dubovrin was a social dem oerat and came to the village to try to succor the peasantry, he organized com pany for the betterment of their condi- tion. He was arrested and put to the rack and died under the inquisition. q don't charge Lazhenffsky With being the man who inspired and organized 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 revolutionary party he was the evil one whose tyranny caused the viola ton, the executive of the bureaucracy. The social revolutionary party seeks to nrotect the interest of the 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:
 eIn spite of all the horrors to which have been subjected l am happy in that belong to the ranks of protectors of the people. and that l am to die for their cause"