Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-04-04
A Bogus Child
Saves Thirteen
From GaIIOWS

Der Asks to Be Allowed
to Marry Before He
Dies Sweetheart and a
Borrowed Baby Who
Weep at Psychological
Moment Huge Success
and Death Sentence of the
Prisoners is COMMITTED to
20 Years Imprisonment.
Special Correspondence.
IVIARSAw, March 2l.--To the clever
w acting of young girl, the sweet
heart OF one of their number, and the
assistance Of baby borrowed for the
occasion 10 precious young Russian
scoundrcls owe their escape from the
hangrnans moose. The men were MEM
hers of one of the worst and most
daring gangs OF thieves and Highway
men that ever infested this part Of the
country. They were found guilty by
court martial and the penalty is death.
fate, by the way, which they richly
deserved At the psychological mo-
ment, however, Just before sentence
was passed upon him. the accommodate
ing sweetheart and the bogus baby
We're brought iif and the former was
married to the youngest of the prison.
ers A few tears on the part of the
wife, n prolonged screech on the part
of the baby who thus showed his OBJ
lection to having pin stuck In ms
leg. aud the hearts of the judges were
melted. Instead of the death penalty
the sentence of the 10 was committed
to 20 years Imprisonment each
The funniest part of the whole busl-
ness Is that neither the police nor the
judges suspect to this day that they
We're bamhoozled by an Ingenious plan
concocted by one of the prisoners. The
real facts of the case were told To mo
by the mother of the child which
played so large part in the comedy.
TYPICAL CASE.
stanisIas Lukasak. the youthful prls-
oier who married undor the shadow
of the gallows was the son Of a re-
spectacle workingman. He was an-
prenticed to II locksnith and worked In
that capacity for some time. When
the revolution broke out iii Russia Lux
Asiak was, like most young men, drag
ged into the vortex of strikes and DEM
constructions. He. with many others,
lost his place and, driven to despera- A
ton, determined to become a bandit He
Joined bandit society which styled
itself "The Working Mems Union" to
disguise its nefarious purpose. There
We're 10 members, whose ages ranged
from rs to g. They had no political
aim hut eXertcd all their energies TO
fobbing the rich wherever they could
Being well armed, they We're very sue
cessful. More than one death is laid
at their door as their victims often
offered resistance. For over three
years these 10 youths were the terror
of the country. In that time, they rob
bed offices and private people of up
wards of 100000 roubles. II was while
he was a member of '"rbe Working
Mems Union" that Lukasiak met Mar
va Borkowska, the girl who was even
tually TO save him and his companions
and became engaged TO her. lie did
not, however, tell her how he got his
money and whom he was arrested, as
he eventually was, and taken tn the
citadel Of Warsaw, she had not the
slightest idea that he was guilty of
tho charges laid against him. Stanis,
las aud his II companions We're tried
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their brains for means Of escaping
a.. d
years hard labor was infinitely prefer
able "a the hurnhcr punishment. At the
end of that time the Oldest of them
would only be 10 and there WAS always
chance thut a coronation would be
the means of cutting OF another I've
years. But the officials who preside
over court marNals arc particularly
hard upon bandits. some eight or II"
ara hanged nightly IN tho warsaw ciu-
del One night, since those men were
arrested as many as l3 We're hanged,
10 the members of the working
Mems Union this coincidence ut mum
beers Was "a bad Sign.
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ii-ND ~ "''''''i iNf''N'
suddenly. one of the men. known by
that immediately appealed 10 am o.
cent Ftauislus
"Stnnisl1s is uulne Ia snyn us alt"
ne nNrlannad and iinrnldrI bis MAN
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cngagod.7 hr said. "she's goi To do