Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-29

ner ana II TO CracoW and satisfied them
selves that 1t had been used by her. BY
that time she had left Russia. When
arrested in Austria she said she was sorry
her fright had led her to seek safety in
fight and regretted that she had not given
herself UP, to the police then and there
She declares that If the revolutionary
cause is to prosper 1t must not be rob-
bed of it's martyrs. She is quite willing
to make one of them and endure the
horrors Of a lifelong Siberian exile
That is another illustration of the differ
ence between the men and women who go
in for bomb throwing and the rest of
the revolutionary program. man will
risk exile to Siberia but he will try his
hardest to escape it. He never yearns
after martyrdom in the cause of revolu-
ton Luckily for Wanda. she has also
husband-she married him after her fail
ure to blow up the governor general. He
does not relish the idea of his wife going
to Siberia and it is he who has fought
the extradition proceedings Wanda S
brother. who has also sbeen traced and
arrested, takes the blame of the failure
of the attempt upon himself. saying that
his nervousness reacted upon his sister,
who would have been quite cool other
wise. Except for the actual bomb throw
ing. this plot ranks among the cleverest
that has been perpetrated in Russia for
a long time. The idea of dressing UP as
an officer and insulting the German vice
consul in order to entice high official
into secluded street is distinctly original.
The revolutionaries affirm that the wom-
ems plots are always the best concocted-
where the weaker colleagues" fail is
in their execution. This is why many COM
mittees favor the method of getting the
women to plan the attempts and the men
to carry them out. --
The recent unsuccessful plot against the
car, which, thanks to Cossack at the
Peterhof palace, who betrayed the revo-
lutionaries. was discovered Just before t
was ripe. resulted in the trial of large
number Of revolutionaries. so per cent of
whom were women and young girls. The
head Of this large and powerful group
was also girl, Nina Zalinjano, known
in her party as 'Comrade Nina" She
planned the death Of Pswlow, the martial
procurator. and of Won Launio head of
tuc tOWu VI al II was WITH
her bomb that both Of these men were
killed. She lived as fashionable MILL
ner in st. Petersburg but beyond her
showrooms was large laboratory, fitted
up with materials used in bomb making
and containing large stores of firearms
and ammunition. To her failures belong
the attempt to blow up the train in which
Stolypin and the Grand Duke Nicholas
Nicholavitch were travelling to Peterhof
in the spring of 1907 and in the SUISSE
quent plot to kill the car and his
family.
1t was after the failure to blow up the
train that the police fell upon traces that
led to the discovery of Nina's laboratory. |
But 1t took some months to arrest her,
as she was continually travelling under
false names between Moscow and Peter |
hsf. Finally Nina was condemned to
death, but her sentence has been COM
muted to lifelong exile in Siberia.
The women who helped her in the plot
against the car and who made friends
with the Cossacks who keep guard at |
the palace are: Zubowa. Mary Prokofiewa, |
Olga Emme. Anna Pigit, Tarasowa, Eco
dosiewa and Pedhowowa. The life-history
of each of these women would provide
material for a sensational novel, but |