Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-03

passport and safely went through those
provinces by rail, by boat and by horse
chaise. 1 saw, heard and learnt what 1
wanted; all went we'll with me until the
very eve of my departure from the capital
for England. On that last day 1 had I'M
fortunately caught what they call here "a
tall" probably through merely the acciden-
tai coincidence of having entered a house
where someone else was being watched,
consequently as soon as 1 entered the rail-
way station the following noon 1 was sig
nificantly touched on the shoulder by a
gendarme and arrested by order. When
asked for my name and passport in the
gendarmerie room Of the railway station I
produced my false document, acknowledge
ing that although 1 had been residing UNI
der that name II was not my own passport.
1 moreover declined to reveal my identity
: until a formal accusation and the reason OF
my arrest were declared. Then all my pa
pers, packets and luggage were ransacked,
catalogued although not without omissions
and disappearances), sealed and together
with me sent under a strong escort to a
preliminary prison. There I had to live for
three days in an empty and dirty room tenn
porarily converted into a prison cell, at night
sleeping without undressing on a bare and
hard oil cloth couch, using my fur coat
as a pillow and my overcoat as a blanket.
When two days later the legal situation
was explained to me 1 disclosed my real
name and received permission to write
letters my family in England and in
form them OF what had happened to me
l learned afterward that these first letters
never reached there destination. For
tunately l had provided myself with a
good sandwich for the journey before
starting. for no food OF any kind was
given me during my first eighteen hours
in this dirty prison. An atmosphere OF
sulky suspicion and hatred, veneered with
military deception, surrounded me here,
although my own appropriateness, added
to my gray hairs and decent clothing
preserved me from actual rudeness.
Or November IA, 1907, we were taken
over to the fortress in two double-horse
carriages with dark curtains. one for my
self and three armed gendarmes. and the
other for my luggage and further csc 1rt
The formaliues Of handing me over to the
fortress authorities, the passing through
the formidable iron ratings, by which ths
Trubetskoi Bastion is guarded, after the
arrival of a special key keeper, the sigh
Of a whole detachment OF soldiers, witt
rifles, formed the details of the transfer
/ was then marched between two gendarme
up a stone stat. case, along a corridor, witt
a mysterious looking row OF wooden doori
on the one side and OF windows. over
looking the square Of the bastion, on th'
other, until We reached a door wide opeI
as II eager TO receive me in its cold embrace
! found myself i'm a spacious yaulted cell
with whiteWashed walls and a yellow
painted floor, s~cantily lighted by one mar
row window. far above my reach in tn
thick wall. Here / was ordered to strI
by NY guards, while they stood in from
E of me eagerly scrutinizing every motor
{ A prison garb had TO be donned instead
= rough linen, a thick loose and long coat G
= wooden cloth and a pair of loose leathe
slippers. rough pieces OF the same line
n for a handkerchief. a napkin and a tow,
0 completed my new wardrobe. This Ger,
mony over, my own things were remove
E and / was left in the empty cell in tn
e position Of an unwilling Diagones, alor
e with my thoughts.
II Ny cell appeared to measure about q
d 1Ox1O feet and allowed at least a goc
e walking space. ten PAGES one way and ff'
Z the other. The entire furniture consists
OF a rough iron table bracketed to II
wall, an iron bedstead, close 70 the tabl
also fixed to the wall and floor and alwaS
d open; an electric lamp covered with
convex glass over the table in the wal