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Show HORRIBLE CRIMES. Sixty-five New Born liabea Brutally Murdered Mur-dered in Russia. New York, May 23. A dispatch from London says. The trials at Bilna, Russia, of over thirty men and women on charges of j wholsesale systematic infanticide have been concluded. All of the prisoners have been couvicied and sentenced to imp:isonment in a fortress for terms ranging from six to thirty-years. thirty-years. The number of victims has not been positively ascertained, but the bodies of bodies of sixty-five children, mostly newborn, new-born, have been traced.' The evidence teemed with blood curd ing disclosures as to the methods emyloyed in getting rid of the unfortunate children. Many of them were allowed to die of cold and hunger and neglect, and others were poisoned with a decoction of poppy seed; and a large number were violently put to death, being suffocated with pillows, or packages of wadding or linen, while others were strangled by fie accused, or drowned in cesspools. cess-pools. The bodies of the murdered children were wrapped up in rags, and concealed iu i the woods at the first convenient opportunity. oppor-tunity. In some instances they were kept f for days, both before and after their death, in chests or drawers, baskets, boxes, barrels, and other receptacles tilled with lilthy rags, i and concealed In dark and sometimes noise- i some underground cellars. To the ringleader ring-leader of the gang, Noskina, the murders of twenty-foot infants were attributed. Two j other women were charged with the murder j cf eighteen children each ; and another was j alleged to have made away with fifteen. c- |