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Show KCSSIAN INRttJiUAWITY. Hew (ho Czar Sei-reu KililllNCB, St. Petersburg, 12. A Kieff correspondent corres-pondent of the Si. Pcteraburger Journal Jour-nal gives the following account of the outbreak among political prisoners last month. Persona in the Kiefl prison reeolved Bone time ago to tunnel tun-nel under the walls and escape; the scheme was betrayed by one of the oon?pirators; the authorities allowed the prisonera to continue the excavation, excava-tion, ard when the tunnel was completed com-pleted and the prisoners had entered one after another, intending to come p through the opening beyond the prison precincls, the eoldiers previously previ-ously posted at the opening ahot the escaping prisoners as they came up. Wbeu the bulk of the prisoners, terrified ter-rified by the noiae of the firing, stopped and remained in the tunnel soldiers were eent in from behind and the unlortunate wretches, caught between be-tween two fires, were all Bhot down. The proceeding seemod to give the officials much amusement, and the director of the priaon was then praised and decorated fur having acted with such cleverness and deci-iou. The correspondent adds: "Quite in keeping keep-ing with this is the statement pub-lishsd pub-lishsd by the Russian chaplain in tbo Ceniral prison at CharkoQ, in the Official Eparcbial Wedomosti Diocesan Dio-cesan intelHgenca. He declares that of 500 prisoners' detained at that prison, 200 died within four monibs. One of the heaviest charges made by the Nihilists against Russian official admit istratiou was the brutal treatment treat-ment of prisoners, in consequence ol which the health of most of them has broken down, many dying and some : being driven mad. J |