Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-09-27
Horror Tales Of Russ
Prison Found Untrue
By Associated Press

the RESULT of months negotiations,
after which decision by Premier
Kerensky was finally asked, the Asso-
ciated Press correspondent was per-
mitted today to inspect the notorious
Trouhetskoi bastion of the fortress of
st. Peter and st. Paul, the bastile Of
Petrograd.
Here during two centuries there have
been immured highborn traitors, pre-
tenders to the throne, assassins of en-
perofs. propagandists of nihiliSm and
bomb throwers, and here today the
most hated adherents of the banished
autocratic regime are awaiting the ma
tons verdict.
In this bastion now are interned
eight exalted culprits. They are:
General Rennenkampff, whose record
as military Judge in 1906 during the
attempted revolution constituted !
'haugman's progress" to Siberia.
classed as equaling. if not surprising,
the infamics of the notorious Jeffreys.
NJ. Bieetsky. former director of POI
lice and accomplice of agents provo
cateurs.
NJ. Makaroff, the reactionary former
minister of the interior, who procured
the election of a burglar to the duma
TO act as spy.
NJ, Sikremieff. accused of serious Of
lenses as chief of the army motor sup
ply office.
J. Chtcheglovitoff former minister OF
justice. whom the late Count W1bte
characterized as the most clever. most
corrupt man in Europe"
Prince Alexander Dolgorukoff, the
cavalry commander seized last week as
a supporter of General Kornfof.
General voveikoff the former emper-
ors palace commandment.
Alexander Protopopoff once classed
as patriotic member of the duma'
next as an oppressive minister OF the
interior. and last the ally and slave
of the mystic monk Rasputin.
Questioned at Gate.
Tn COMPANY with the assistant pro-
cureur of the Petrograd high court the
drove to the fortress.
Before the main entrance the automo-
bile. altho an official car, was exam
ined by the soldiers on guard, VINO con-
Quoted long cross questioning OF the
after which they were
passed thru the residential section OF
the fortress enceinte and on to the
prison.
The bastion. which Is a portion OF the
obsolete fertilization, is Oh ne banks
of the Neva. separated from It only oy
a wall from which a daily salute Is
fired at noon. 1t is a nwo-story, heHn-
gonal building, surrounding a court
ward. along five sides of which runs
double tier of low. arohed windows,
heavily barred. The sixth side Is
high wall.
According to popular belief, the
bastion cells are stone sacks which
being below the level Of the river. are
liable to inundation. but this IDEA Is
erroneous. ...a..
Above Flood Crest.
The lower row, in which there are
thirty-six cells, is on the ground lever,
but there are no prisoners here, ana
the upper story, with the same num-
Der Of cells. Is out of the reach OF the
recurring river floods.
Before inspecting the cells, the cor
respondent visited the prison chah-
celery. out of which lead two doors.
Pointing to them, the procureur said
Inside are prisoners under exam
nation"
He opened the first door. immedi-
ately. showing a stoutish. gray-beard-
ed man, who was Bieletsky, sesulcu-
Iat,ng to an examining magistrate
while thru the other door when II was
opened. could be seen only regular
acauilsne profile silhouetted against
barred window.
THAT is Protopopoff," said the pro-
cureur. closing the door.
The correspondent was then conduct
ed to the cells on the upper story, III
which the prisoners are conhned AT
present The cells open on a corridor
which follows the hexagonal construc-
ton Of the building.
How They Are Fed.
On one side OF the corridor are
barred windows, opening on the court
yard, while on the other side Is row
of red painted, front bound oaken doors
with slots for peering. and pigeon
holes which may be closed at will. for
handing in food to the occupants.
From the condition Of a vacant cell
the correspondent gained the impress
sion that so long as the jailer be-
HAYES CONSIDERABLY Imprisonment in
the Troubetskoi bastion involves no
physical suffering. The whitewashed
cell was a large and clean one, paved
with red cement. lighted with an cleo
trio lamp set into the wall. and at
taeshed to which was a night light, en-
abling the warder TO :S-:o:: the PFiS'ii-
er thru the slot.
The cell was not damp, and the SAM
tary arrangements were modern The
furniture consists Of a good bed and
q table. screwed to the wall. The only
defective arrangement was the made
quate natural lighting, which. the pro
curnnr admitted saving that the f1Ye-