Show AN EXILE FROM SIBERIA Story of tho Escape of a Russian Prisoner and Ills Arrival I America Special to THE HERALD Examiner Dispatch OTTAWA Ont Dec 5A dispatch from Vancouver British Columbia yesterday states that on the steamship Batavia there arrived at that port from Japan a Russian gentleman who has just escaped from Siberia where ho had been in exile eighteen eigh-teen years The gentleman who had assumed the name of Brant was eighteen year ago editor of a newspaper in Russia le was not a Nihilist but hisliberaltviews a expressed in his paper displeased the I government and for his offense he was sentenced for life in Siberia For six ears he was in solitary confinement after that he was twelve years on parole going from place to place fA few months ago he drifted to the sea coast There he found a British ship and explaining his circumstances circum-stances to the officers he was taken onboard board and landed at Nagasaki There his passage was paid on the Batavia by his newfound new-found On arrivingatVancouver the officers of the Batavia presented him with a ticket to Washington D C for which placo he started at once Brant is torty five years of age but his long suffering has made him prematurely old |