The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-02-12
BoLsHEvIsr HORRORS
Irish Girls Tell Story of Methods of
the New and Terrible Russian
Autocracy

The following terrible story taken
from the National Republican of Feb
ruary Z, 1920, published at Washing
ton, D. c., tells of the horrible crimes
committed by the Reds or Bolsheviki
of Russia, cousins of the Non-part-
isan League and the l. W. W, the
Bolsheviki of America:
Two Irish girls-the Misses May
and Eileen Healy, daughters of Mr..
Thomas Healy, former Nationalist Nj.
P. for Wexford, and neices of Mr..
Timothy HeaIy, K. C.-have just
reached London, having escaped from
Kieff with nothing but the clothes
thin linen dresses were wear
ing, says the London Times. These
ladies have been in Russia for eight
years as governesses, and have been
in Kieff during each period of Bolshe-
visit rule. When they left, the boil
shevists were only 25 miles off, and
the guns of the Reds were again heard
in the city.
They tell terrible story of bolshe-
visit outrage, of which they were per-
sonal witnesses. They have been
more than once turned out of their
homes into the streets at a moments
notice, robbed of their possessions,
and, although never subjected to per-
sonaI violence, repeatedly threatened
with death.
In describing the scene when Deni-
kine's army relieved Kieff last Sep
TENDER, after eight months of boil
shevism, Miss Eileen Healy said:
81 shall never forget the day the
Volunteer army arrived. The people
had been counting the hours for this
relief. The terror-stricken popula-
ton rushed from their homes, and
when the Russian flag was hoisted
over the Duma, the city went mad
with joy; the people sobbed and yell
ed with relief The crowd surged
around General Bredoff, wrapped his
| charger in a Russian flag, and carried
him on their shoulders through the
Streets
The Reds had been compelled to
clear out so quickly that they had no
time to hide the evidences of their
crimes. 'The next day." said Miss
May Healy, 81 was enabled to visit
the various prisons of the Tchresvet-
chaika or Extraordinary Commission
each of which was a veritable tor
| ture-house scattered through the
city Though we had our suspicious,
we had no idea of the horrors that
had been perpetrated within their
walls. l knew many, who entered
them when the Reds had departed to
look for missing relatives, who came
out mad, and one lady friend of mine
dropped dead on reaching the street.
cone of these places, 'Sadavoca s.
was an attractive villa with a small
garden. In a side building, a sort of
garage, l saw the walls covered with
blood and brains. In the middle was
cut a channel or drain full of con-
gealed blood, and just outside in the
garden 127 nude and mutilated
corpses, including those of some wo-
men, were flung into a hole.
''They had been murdered the day
previously, and the man who had re-
moved the bodies from the shed told
horrible story 1t seems that the
victims first had to strip and then
form up in line with arms folded. The
first line had to lie on their faces
and were then shot. The second row
filed in and took their places just be-
hind the first row, and so row after
row of corpses was piled up until
there was what he described as a
staircase of bleeding bodies reaching
almost to the ceiling of the shed.
'Some of the prisoners would be
invited to walk about the garden, and
as a form of sport, the drunken boil
shevists 'potted' at them with their
revolvers, sometimes killing, some
times wounding their victims. In the
cellers of this prison were found a
number of large boxes. In each of
these were two or three naked bodies.
Gwen when l left Kieff the author
tiles had not completed their exca-
vations, but already between 1000
and 5000 bodies had been identified.
Quite apart from these atrocities life
in Kieff during the Red occupation
was time of terror-one long night
mare. None of US knew when we
would be arrested, and there was al
ways shooting and firing in the streets
When we went to bed we never knew
whether we should live to the next
day, and after a while 1 think per
haps some of US did not care.
''Ten bolshevists occupied the room
next to mine. There was a beautiful
drawing room. There, night after
night, they carried on drunken orgies
of an unspeakable character with
women they had brought in from the
town, and 1 lay on my bed with the
door barricaded until from sheer ex-
haustion, 1 went to sleep"