Atlanta Georgian., 1914-03-01
Chapter H--The Horrors of the Pogran; His
Arrest for Murder
By Mendel Bells
Continued from Last Sunday.


HY happiness didn't last long. for when
NI my future wife heard of my spending
this money on clothes for myself, she
was very upset and cried all day and all night
She could not understand wnat kind of hus
band should make, since at the start | spent
so much money my own clothes. Other
sweethearts she had, she said used to Duy
her presents She nearly refused to go on
with the marriage, but soothed her by telling
her that the good clothes were all TO make me
look worthy of her
We had a fine wedding. My wife was very
pretty, and l was very proud OF her. MY
parents and nearly all my relations we're at
the wedding, and numbers OF my Wlfes people
as we'll. 1t was great time.
The owner of the brickworks where / was
going to work had given us room IN MS
house. and there we went to live. l was
dreadfuly shy of my wife at first. was al
most afraid to speak to her. She was just as
shy of me. had known so few women all
nv life that did not know what to say to her
But after few months we got to know one
another, and we became very good Hlenas
and greatly attached.
My job at the brickworks was very hard
one | was foreman and had to keep count OF
the number of bricks made, and also to see
that each man did his work. Besides TINS
had to buy their food and serve 1t out TO
them at breakfast and dinner
NV nav was only fifteen roubles month,
and we never really had enough 10 eat az
us have meals with his family. have talked
several times lately with my wife about the
way we used to manage in those days. ohe
reckoned that about five or SIX rouples
month would go clothes ana householu
necessities, about seven roubles on 1000, anu
that we could save from one to two rouoles.
This state of affairs went on for two years
BY this time my eldest boy, Plnka, was porn,
and W began to feel the extra expense.
was also beginning to feel the strain OF the
hard work and long hours, because never
had been as strong after my illness as before
Back Again to Poverty.
Then l had a great misfortune hau
saved about forty roubles, and one DAY
friend came to see me and asked me 10 @ lenu
him twenty | fooshly did so, ana ne went
away and never paid me back. This was
sad blow for us. On top OF this my employer
became tired of having US there. his lallliy
did not like eating with them. Ihey s maui
life very hard for us. and when complalheu
nv employer discharged me. we were cast
out on the world again.
NV wife went to live with her famly'
gave her the twenty roubles we hau saVeu
for her keep, but her family would not take
this So she bought table and three chalrs
with the money and gave them to her parents,
left our boy with her while trled 10 ma
work, but with the exception OF some ouu
Jobs could not get any
things were about as bad as they could be.
My wife's relations had begun to thlnk tnat
we would never do any petter, anu ViiIS w
not want to keep my wife ana cnilu any
longer / was half starved, and AFRAID that
should again become i'll.
Then | heard the news that Mr.. Halttsen'
the old partner of my father IN NescneIo",
was going to open brick works IN hleV' /
went 60 him, and he gave me a Job as lore
man l remained with him for twelve years,
until I was arrested and kept in prison lot
two and a. half years. charged with the muir
der of Yushinsky.
My pay at first was tWenty-hve Iouoie9 q
month. We also had room with Ight anu
heat Nv wife now returned to me. we
were still very poor, but not so badly on aS
before. Our family began to increase ana
began to find myself in debt to the shopkeeP
Every year | got more and more -.I.,s oenlnu,
and at the time of my arrest owed the SHOPS
+, 200 roubles. ALI this have since paiu'
"Police Graft" in Russia.
could not help being in debt. Although
after two wears my wages were raised to
thirty-fve roubles month, and subsequently
after twelve years work, to fifty rouples a
month yet with the money l was oohged 70
pay the police for being allowed to remain at
kiey, which kept increaslA5 - the time, anu
the cost of my eldest boys education, We were
always very poor. We should nave oeen even
worse off but for the fact that when Went
TO ?uy food for the men, | used to make the
shopkeeper give me piece OF meat or some
bread for myself for giving MIN the oFueF'
This was a great help
But our home was much more comfortable.
One OF my relations died and left me some
furniture Our children brought us much
happiness ] think David my second boy,
perhaps my favorte. My hours were
just as long in my job they had been
before. but when came home at night David,
who is now twelve years old, was always wait
ine for me. | used to look for this all day,
he would run and kiss me, and then ! would
get my working clothes off and take him on