Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-08
Jschaikoysky and Nine.
Breshkoyskaya Put on Trial.
PUBLIC is NOT ADMITTED
Male Prisoner Pleads Not Guilty. to
Charge of Being Terrorist.
DEFENSE GAINS FIRST POINT
Witnesses Who May Discredit In
formers Will Be Admitted-No
Subpoenas for Americans.

ST. PETERSBURG, March S.-Nich-
olas V. Tschaikovsky pleaded not gull
ty and Nine. Breshkovskaya respond
ed: Il admit that 1 am a social revoIu-
ZIONIST" when their trial on charges
of criminal activity In the revolution
airy organization was begun today.
The public was not admitted to the
courtroom, the audience being confined
to the prisoners, court officers. Tschaik-
ovsley's wife and forty gendarmes and
plain clothes officers
Judge krashennikoff presided and the
government was represented by Vice
Prosecutor Chervinsky. NJ Zarudny
appeared for Nine. Breshkovskaya and
Eassili Malakoff for Tschaikovsky. Al
the opening the court denied a motion
for separate trials, as well as the re-
quest by the state for an adjournment
of Tschaikovsky's case in view OF the
of Feodoroff. the polit-
lical agent Of the secret police, and
three other important police witnesses
The issuance of subpoenas for Ameri
can witnesses also was denied.
Following the reading of the long
indictment the pleas Of the prisoners
were made and Nine. Breshkovskaya
announced that she was ready for trial.
Save her counsel she had no friend in
court
Daughter Kept Out.
Before the proceedings began. Nine.
Bracey, the daughter Of Tschaikovsky.
was admitted to the courtroom momen-
tarily to state on behalf of the sureties
whether they were willing to continue on
her fathers bail bond until a We. dict was
| reached. The father asked the court to
permit Nine. Bracey to remain at the
trial. but this was refused.
The witnesses. including several promi-
nent radicals and d political convict, who
appeared in chains, were excluded from
the courtroom during the prelimnar4es.
Just before the opening of the trial.
Nine Bracey received letter from
Premier Stolypin in which he declined 20
revoke the order that the trial be held
w4tnin closed doors in view OF the pos
Sib4lity Of a demonstration.
The defense gained the first point when
the court overru.ed the objection of the
p. osecutor and admitted Witnesses, who
expect to discredit the veracity of the in
former Pateuk.
Room Appears Deserted.
The large and usually crowded court
room, the doors of which were heavily
guarded by the police. had an almost
deserted appea. ance, the little group of
accused and counsel beng huddled in
front of the red-covered dais upon which
were seated the judge and the class rep
resentatives OF the nobility, urbanites and
peasantry. The presence on the dais of
Admiral Dellgrion, a p eminent parsonage
who represented the nobility. was con-
strued as a bad omen by the defense,
since his son was killed by the terrorists
IN St. Petersburg.
The alderman and peasant elder COM
pleted the jury.
Tscha kovsky was brought TO the court
room in a carriage escorted by ten gen.
darmes. AS he was seated between two
swordsmen in the dock he waved cheer
full greeting to an acquaintance, and his
face was radiant as though at the
thought of again suffering for the
cause His emotion was marked as he
replied to the customary questions. His
occupation he said was that of preacher
and the doctrine he expounded was
socialism"