Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-09
retired with him for the night IN i,

| I'm the morning Maria Goryachkov-
sky came out of her stateroofn and an
nounced very calmly to the officers 4,
the steamship that she had strangled
her child during the night.
| I'm answer to the questions az tho
captain, she declared just as CALMLY.
| 1T Is better that / did it myself.
otherwise others would have kIlad
him, and he would have suffered much
more"
Then she said she knew six Ian
guages, that she was newspaoor
writer that she had Travelled exten.
Isivcly, that she suffered a great doa,
and that she was glad to give herself
up to the authorities.
THE body Of the child was removed
and the. murderer was locked in hnr
Istatefoom, which was carefully guard
ed. On September II, Marie Goryach.
kovsky made an attempt to swallow
her false teeth ana to choke herself
with the hair which She had torn from
her head.
| The physicians saved her. A nurse
was placed in her stateroom. On Sep
TENDER Is, the Kurgan halted near
|
and soon arrested the woman
| 1T is understood that about month
ago Marie Goryachkovsky left pri
vate insane asylum in London and
WAS sent to Russia by the Russian
consulate.
| Marie Goryachkovsky appeared in
the columns If the Novoye VreyIna,
the Svet. and other journals with rab-
i'll attacks upon the jews and the pro-
gressivos." B
| This same Marie Goryachkovsky ap-
peared in New York three years ago.
She announced herself as the foremost
woman writer in the Russian empire,
land as the representative of the No
voye Vremya, thc>well- known Russian
newspaper, she gave one interview
about conditions in Russia. In these
statements, which we're published in Il
number OF newspapers III New York,
she ridiculcd the emancipation move
fmcnt III 1893, and among other things
declared that the Jews in America suf-
tfered greater need than their broth
rem in Russia. and, that they were not
as free here as in Russia.
| In her articles sent from this coun-
| try 20 Russia she ridiculed American
Institutions, and found that Russia
| was in every way more humane and
even mere progressive than America.
When Prof. Paul MilyuIiov, the not
| ed historian and leader Of the consti-
| tutional democrats in the duma, came
| to this country for the purpose of de-
| livering his lecture on the true state
OF affairs in Russia, Marie Goryach-
kovsny reported it for the Nov0ye
Vremya,
When tie duma reopened after the
Christmas recess and Milyukcv APP
pearcd on the forum, the reactiOnary
forces, supported by the government.
made q violent attack upon MIN, ard
the session ended IN one Of the most
| disgraceful scandals ever witnessed in
a parliament. Milyukov was Missed
off the platform, and he was saved
with great difficulty by his friends
from tie infuria5ed mob which kept
shouting Traitor" ''American."
and numerous unprintable epithetS
To this day Prof. Milyukov is com
polled to defend himself from time to
time against the accusations made by
Marie Goryachllovsky that he preach
l~iu ana Dl6OtSf1Su III Ills Zee
ture which he delivered at Carnegie
hall under the auspices of the Civic
Forum.
After Marie Goryachkovsky wrote 4
number of scurrilous attacks on Amer
leans and the Jews, she returned TO
Russia.
When l visited Russia in 1905 I at
tended the conference of the represen-
tativeS of The Russian press held for
the purpose of deciding upon the most
appropriate way of celebrating the
S0th birthday of Count Leo To!stoi.
Prof. Paul NIi'yukov was the chair
man of the conference. While the dis
cEssions We're in progress young
woman. in whom l recognized Marie
Goryachkovsky, was endeavoring to
attract attention to herself by various
explanations.
During the recess she approached
Prof. Milyukov and asked him for an
lrterview for tlre Novoye Vremya.
Prof. Milyukov, upon learning her
name, said:
"1ou reported my lecture in New
iork. You wrote that l preached ter
rorisnl. You lied. You wrote that [
| advocated 4 policy of bloodshed. You
lied -FOUR article was full of the bas-
iect falsehoods. ( l. cannot answer any
of your questions
Marie Goryachkovsky cried:
"1ou are a liar and a coward"
Their Prof. Milyukov enumerated
some Of the 1alsehoods she published
in her articles from America. The
Journalists who watched the-incident
lapplauded the professor, and the wo-
man left the hall.
BY that time information about
Marie Goryachkovsky' adventures in
Paris and elsewhere reached the st.
Petersburg newspapers, and the ma
ture OF these adventures was so
shocking that evch the Novoye Vre-
mya stopped defending her. Marie
lGoryachvoksky then commenced her
her Campaign in the organs of The
Black Hundreds, kolokol, and Russ
koye Znamya.
The Russkoye Snamya was support
ed directly by the car. The newspa-
per attacked the highest parsonages
among Russian officials in the vilest
terms and was perhaps the only news
u