Bisbee daily review., 1917-10-14
RUSSIAN PRISON INSPECTED FROM
 TOP TO BOTTOM
Associated Press Correspond ent is Taken Through Anci- ent Prison. Eight Men Now Incarcerated In Fortress.

PETROGRAD, Oct. 6.-As the re ( suit of a months negotiations, after which decision by Premier Keren- sky finally was asked, the Associated Press was permitted today to inspect the notorious Troubtezkoi bastion of the fortress of St. Peter and St Paul, the bastile of Petrograd. Here dur ing two centuries there have been immured high-born traitors, pretend CTS to the throne, assassins of eTh- perors, propagandists of Nihilisn and bomb throwers and here today the most hated adherents of the banished autocratic regime are awaiting the na- tion's verdict.
 Eight in Jail.
 In this bastion are interned eight culprits. They are General Rennen- kampif, whose record as a military judge in 1906 during the attempted revolution, constituted a "hangman's progress" to Siberia classed as eQuall- ing, if not surpassing, the infamies of the notorious Jeffreys; M. Bieletsky, former director of police and accom- plice of agents provocature; the re- actionary former minister of the in , terior, NJ. Makaroff, who procured the election of a burglar to the duma to act as spy; M. Sikremieff, accused of serious offenses as chief of the army motor supply office; former min ister of justice, J. Chtcheglovitcoff, whom the late Count Witte character ized as the most clever, most cor rupt man in Europe;" Prince Alexan- der Dolgorukoff, the cavalry com mander seized last week as sup porter of General Korniloff; General Voyeikoff, the former emperor's pal ace commandant, and finally AlexaL- der Protopopoff, once classed as a patriotic member of the duma, next an oppressive minister of the interior and last the ally, slave of the mystic Monk Rasputin.
 Liable to Inundation.
 The bastion which is part of the obsolete fertilization near the river is a two-story. hexagonal building sur rounding a court yard, along five sides of which runs a double tier of low, arched windows, heavily barred. The sixth side is a high wall. = According to popular belief the bas- tion cells are stone sacks" which, being below the level of the river, are liable to inundation, but this idea is erroneous. The lower row, in which there are 36 cells, is on the ground level, but there are no prisoners here and the upper story, with the same number of cells, is out of reach of the recurring river floods.
 The correspondent visited the fort ress in company with the assistant procurator of the Petrograd high court.
 Before inspecting the cells the cor respondent visited the prison chan cellory, out of which lead two doors Pointing to them, the procurator said:
 Prisoners Examined.
 Inside are prisoners under exam ination" He opened the first door immediately showing stoutish, gray bearded man, who was Bieletzky, ges- ticulating to an examining magistrate while through the other door when it was opened, could be seen only d regular. acquiline profile silhouetted against barred window.
 "That is ProtQpopoff." said the pro. curator closing the door
 Upper Story Cells.
 The correspondent was then con ducted to the cells on the upper story in which the prisoners are confined at present. The cells open on a cor ridor which follows the hexagonai