The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-05-04
Girl ASSASSIN
JUSTIf|ES deed
POINTS TERRIBLE PICTURE OF
CAUSES THAT LEAD TO
RUSSIAN REVOLT.
Petty Officials Leave Murdered Peas
ants, Ruined Land Owners, As
saulted Women and Bruised and
Crippled Children in Their Wake.

loWSnS is the JuStlncaLlOn made by
Mile. Spiridonova, the girl who MUIR
dered Luzhenoffski, the chief of the
gendarmerie at Tamboff, to the court
martial which sentenced her to be
hanged. 1t is in every respect re-
markable story painting, revolving
picture of the terrible repressions
practiced by petty cars" who exer-
else almost the power of life and death
in the far away provinces of Russia
1t is as follows:
Eyes, | murdered Luzhenoffski, and
/ desire to explain my deed. / am a
member of the social revolutionary
party. The discomfort of the people
with the existing regime turned into
revolution, armed resistance to the
authorities, attacks on officials and of
open collisions with the troops in the
streets. Instead of meeting the needs
OF the people, the government used
guns, bayonets and bullets, but they
did not succeed. Then they invented
the manifesto of liberty. But at the
same time they also invented alleged
popular demonstrations by the organ
iZation of the black hundred outrages.
The manifesto was only piece of
strategy and nothing else AS soon as
the bureaucracy realized>that the man
ifesto could be overthrown it planned
its campaign and returned to the ira
ditional method of depressing the peo-
pie which was so dear to its heart,
namely repression.
Tells of Oppression.
THE horrors of the reaction were
worse than anything which had pre-
coded. Over 200 men were murdered
under the guise of executions, the 'in-
teligencia,' were crammed into pris-
ons, every association which opposed
the government was closed, the press
was gagged, the armed uprisings were
suppressed with machine guns and
the police spies everywhere informed
upon guilty and innocent alike in their
efforts to paralyze the liberation move
ment. The bureaucracy deliberately
created conditions which made it i'm
to reach the supreme power and the
official reports were filled with tran
quillity, happiness and peace
Methods of Suppression.
I'm the suppression of the present
disorders the work of the bureaucracy
was especially splendid; it should be
written in history in golden letters.
1, won't speak of 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 Luzen-
offski. Villages which he visited he
left looking like Bulgarian villages
after Turkish raids. In the village of
Pavlodar ten men were killed by his
orders.
Young Paul Zietseff, through the
self-sacrifice of his family, had re-
ceived good education. He was an
honest, clean, enthusiastic young man.
He used to say: All of my learning
and knowledge l will bring back to
my village for distribution among my
brothers. He and his friend, Ostro-
vitinoff. when Luzhenoffski arrived
went to him as delegates of the peas
ants and Luzhenoffski replied to their
requests with volley from his Cos
sacks. For four days Zeitseff and Os-
torvitinloff were tortured-tortured
until they died.
Corpse Repulsive Mass.
Alexander Dubrovin was a social
democrat, who had come to the vii
l. do g.
attack the landowners and to burn
their houses, but to try to restrain
their elementary passions and organ
ize themselves for the betterment of
their condition and the realization of
their necessities. He was arrested,
and without any investigation of what
he was doing was put upon the rack
and died under the inquisition. Dis
guised as sightseers some of his rela-
tives finally managed to persuade the
keepers to show them his body, but it
was unrecognizable. 1t was literally
a mass of meat, bones and bloody rags.
I'm the same village of Povlodar 40
were wounded. In the Berozovsky viii
lage a peasant named Clemenoff was
tortured into insanity and in the vii
lage of Peskee two others lost their
minds.
Besides the shooting, beatings and
slow death by torture other measures
of 'pacifcation' 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 'triumphai trips Luzhen-
offski was able to lay as trophies of
victories at the feet of the bureau
cracy murdered peasants, ruined own
ers, assaulted women and bruised and
crippled children.
"In spite of all the horrors to which
have been subjected | am happy in
the thought that l belong to the ranks
of the protectors of the people and
that I am to die for their cause"
Acquitted of Murder.
Mr.. Carmel, H., April 2S.-"Cam"