The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-12-04
HORROR
REG'a| A.
DAl)N ITS
WOMEN

Chicago. H., Dec. 4.-The recital OF
the horrors of the Russian revolution
drove Miss Isabel Macl-ean from her
post as court s,enographer yesterday at
tie hearing OF the case in which
Christian Rudovitz Is on trial for ex.
traditien before Commissioner Foote.
'te So nogTaphf remained until an
.gaEl.i 4 the rfv1utinnlst prisoners
i'~as belTT cad iiie the record by At
3tqrNes X w ence Darrcw, and then fled.
'l5ite utiS: women ieft the courtroom
during the reading Of this document
After listening to the account {
tortures for half ain hour. Miss Mac.
Lean suddenly sprung from her chair
threw her haEds over her ears and
fled from the courtroom to toe United
States marshars office Here she
fnoaned and leaned against table for
supp.rt. while deputies assisted her to
a chair and brought water to revive
her. She remainad in the marshals Of
flee during the reading of the entire
document. and never once took her
hands from her ears until a deputy
signaled her that tse reading had
ceased
Again Fiees From Room.
She returned to the eourtro m and
resumed her sork although she was
nervous and greatly agltated When
Attorney Darrow picked lip another
document to read into the evidence she
Rgaln fled. precipitately. without wai.
ine to hear what It vas.
The document which DIR We the stea.
ographer from the courtroom was a
copy OF an Interpolation sent b. the
Russian duma 70 the czar. giving an
account CT the torture Of revolut. mist
prisoners in the Baltic region by po-
lice and soldiers. According tb this
document a commission was appointed
at Riga with D wer to conduct lnquisi.
tions ever political offenders. and .be
governor, according TO the statement
OF the commission. gave II the right to
kill political offenders without trial ar
inquiry"
This document was verified at toe
hearing by Longhln Carus 2 ii;ember
OF the second duma, who has bean used
as witness since Friday He dec,ar-
ed 1t was passed By the dune and sent
10 the Representatives Of the czar.
Prisoners hair and calls wcre p:Ilod
out with pincers and their bones were
broken, according Z The statements in
this document These statements also
appear IN the injcrasila,iop
Horrors Arc Related.
IN the night of ,le 18th aud ilth Of
January, 1906. the lS.year-eld laps
from whom no canlNssi)n G MI BE- CD.
famed. wes troHn on the fIo9r and
one OF the police captain jumped with
els feet on the how ches, ana was
Humping 20 ne until ahe chrsl bone
ann ribs we're brokra. Stradlin. a'n.
being ihrown on tha il7or, wa. bcaenl
on his cilyes 50 ing unit they swelcd
up and ne flesi bcsaa to fa.l from The
bones.
The Other docnments read were the
answe; TO this interpellau n, sent by
the ear TO the duma, and q copy of the
indictment Of several members OF the
duma whose delivery was demanded
of that body, All Of these documents
were introduced by he a.iurncys ior
Rudovitz. wb are attemp 'ug 10 how
that state OF revolution existed IN the
Baltic provinces =, rhe time tee muir.
der OF which Rndosnz Is accused WIS
committed.
0arus also told II ,he cxlent of the
revolulioS He said the total number
~ revolutionlsts killed as spies was
1900. that 250.O00 were exiled toI
Archangel and Siberia. that 1000 was
the total number killed and that zoe,
600 fled the country