Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-08-15
Marvellous Feats of
Russian Prison-Breal.,

n TOTHING, perhaps. better illus
tratcs the indomtable courage
VI of the men and women who
are fighting today for the
emancipation OF the Russian peas
ant. and their uuswerving belief IN the
ultimate triumph of their cause, than
the fact that, although many of them
have endured the horrors of Siberian
Imprisonment from which they have
either escaped OF been released, they
still continue their propaganda work.
Much has been written about those
foes to despotism and bureaucracy, nut
IL Is safe to affirm that no more inter-
cstinR account of some of their careers
and daring deeds has been written
than that contained In the book pun
lished by Simpkin, Marshall. & Co, en-
titled Heroes and Heroines oil hus-
sia. This book has been written by
Jaakoff Prelookcr, a we'll known kus-
sian author and lecturer ana IL Is
toart-achlng story of the tiaseIy ol
the Russian people which the volume
reveals. Needless to say, the book mas
been suppressed in Russia
AN UNPARALLELED ESCAPE.
one of the most interesting chapters
in the book is that devoted to Gregory
Gershuni, a revolutionary who. in 1904
WIS Sei'chceu 10 ueutn sentence
which was commuted TO one of penal
servitude for life. Gershuni was first
incarcerated In the Schlusselburg Fort
ltSs from which no prisoner has ever
yet escaped, and ultimately transported
10 the Akatui prison. Eastern Siberia
From here he managed to escape in n
pickled-cabbagc barrel. and the plan
adopted Is unparalleled IN Russian his
tory.
The faNoritc Russian national dish Is
the famous shtchi. consisting of picked
cabbage boiled into a thick soup with
oil or fat. With the assistance of some
fellow prisoners Gcrslluni managed to
secrete himself in a large barrel con-
tanning cabbage. which was placed with
other full barrels for winter consump-
ton In cellar of the governors house
outside the prison walls. When every
thing was quiet Gershuni emerged from
the barrel, after being nearly suffocat-
ed, and, with the assistance of a COM
rdde. escaped from the cellar through
a tunnel in the foundations. A sledge
and driver wer0 in waiting some dis
tance from the prison, and ultimately,
by roundabout ways, Gershuni man
aged to reach a town where friends
kept him In hiding until the heat Of the
pursuit was over. The police made
frantic efforts to trace the fugitive, but
in vain, and today Gershuni Is moro
ever he was before.
THREE TIMES IN SIBERIA.
The hero of Russian prison break
ers, however. Is Leo Deutsch, who is
also still engaged in revolutionary
work. although he has been sent to
Siberia on three occasions and has
escaped each time. His last escape, in
1905, was perhaps the most audacious
of ALL He had returned to Russia
after the cars constitutional mani
festo, when the authorities practically
guaranteed the safety of himself and
other revolutionaries. But in spite of
this solemn promise, Deutsch was re-
arrested and sent 10 Turukhansk, and
his friends then gave up all hope of
rescue.
On the road, however, Deutsch got
the permission of the officer of the
escort 20 purchase some clothes and
provisions while passing through
little town on the road To Turukhansk.
Two guards accompanied him on his
shopping expedition, and while at
Diapers they began to chat affably with
the shopkeeper, forgetting all about