Show RUSSIAN RUSSI CRUELTY CULTo Methods of Punishing Political Vie Vic Victims Vie titus tims tm That Recall Rc the te Dark TJark Ages Ag A Victim in jn the London Express Er So complete so o perfected down even een evento evento to the smallest rivet Is 1 tbd tb ponderous ponder machinery of Russian Rusian despotism that the miserable people who writhe be beneath beneath beneath neath it i can never hope for freedom except from the outbreak of some great geat political p cataclysm which will wU terminate terIn terminate ate in the te utter overthrow of Russia Rusia at atthe atthe atthe the hands of a foreign power Strange as it I may seem to all aU those tose Who can caI never realize the terrible con conditions conditions under which the Russian pa patriot patrIot patriot triot is compelled to live lve and have his Ws beIng this aspiration will wU be found to exist est side by side with wIt more or 01 less open expression all al over ove Russia wherever wherever ever intelligent men and women are to tobe tobe tobe be found who are true lovers lover of their welfare But struggle as a the patriot may ma and ad strive as he hs will wi even eyen unto death deat the tremendous power of repression and in intimidation I possessed by the Russian government is too colossal clossal for any ay et ef effective result result The government is never satisfied I with wih the capture of ot a solitary wasp wap it devotes de devot Its It entire energies en to the de do destruction de of the te whole nest nest This policy the te operation of which wh ch I know how so well wellis wel is too toe evidently being employed in the case ce of the unfortunate man who slew IT M M recently The man in question queston has not yet been executed but butte the te world ord has ha just learned leared through the te medium of the Russian papers paper that he is exhibiting great mental ment depression and Is likely to give up the names of his hi accomplices very ver shortly shorty This fact conveys but little to those tose who are ar unacquainted with wih Russian police methods but to the Initiated the meaning meaning of this piece of information Is perfectly clear and I wonder what wh t tsuch such devices device will wf be thought of in the te free air all of No sooner is a conspirator taken red handed as a was a this one than tha every evel en endeavor endeavor deavor deor is made to extort from him hi a confession as a to his associates But the theman theman theman man who has had the courage to per perform perform er form so 50 desperate an act as the de do destruction de of ofa a prominent minister is little likely to succumb to the demands denand and even threats threat of his jailers The Russian official is in no hurry flurry hur He has other cards up his sleeve sleeve He bides bies his time and is i very determined not riot to waste wat so o a repository of Incriminating evidence evid eld nce n e by bya a prema pr ture turn execution He He calls science to his aid His vIe vic victim le leUm tim Um Is placed laced in the te solitary confine confinement ment meat of a cell edil probably of a height so low that the prisoner Is i unable to I stand std upright upright Life under such cir air circumstances might mi ht be considered conid red de depressing dep depressing pressing essing p enough but the prisoner filled fled with wih patriotic fervor and prepared prepare to accept death Math as the penalty of his Ws act will vill wi not yield to such methods as a these Nor Nr do his hi captors expect it of such a disposition dIpolo Accordingly they proceed to drug their tei victim Doses Dose are administered in his food in quantities calculated to produce a gradual aG al effect upon te mind and resolution As this nefarious treat treatment treatment treatment ment begins to operate he is i subjected to t constant pressure and interrogation Then at last last when the unfortunate victim of or Russian tyranny is no longer physically and morally capable of any further furter concealment of the te information he possesses when every eer fragment of information has ha been torn from the miserable creature whom their vii vil villainous I contrivances have unmanned he is taken from his cell cel to the death that has ha so s long awaited his coming There is I another execrable device which is employed by Russian Russia prison officials to crush their victim into con conformity conformity fortuity with wit their wishes wIshes It I was em employed employed employed In my m own case cae and I can con confidently confidently attest to its it horrible and de do demoralizing d moralizing effect upon the mental and physical resolution of o the captive With a number of other political prisoners I was confined at Waw Warsaw My cell cel was of the kind I 1 have de described descrIbed scribed above a low vault vaul in which in attempting to walk about I was wa com corn compelled to keep my head as low as a my breast a terrible test tet of ones endur endurance ance atice ace Food and nd drink were passed down to me through a hole In itt the roof in this respect closely resemblIng a mediaeval oubliette while sanitary ar arrangements arrangements were horrible In the ex cx extreme teme tr me But Bitt what did it matter mater when an order to parade parde for death was a momentary contingency by day and night But this thi was wa not the worst ort for Rue Rus Russian Ru sian ingenuity is Oriental in its it re resourcefulness re ss where the infliction of torture is concerned Ever and always al ys with wih an insistence which seemed seed to to pierce pt ce ones ones very ver soul at a small smal aperture placed so as to command every portion porton of ot the l cell c 1 were a pair pall of human humn eyes There Tere must have been bOen relays of ot them th m but that did not con concern concern cern Cr one It I was the te horrible fact fac o otheir of I their presence from front which there here was no escape or alleviation I have found fod nothing in life to t which one cannot In time lime become aecus accustomed acus tomed tome or Indifferent But the hideous vigil of these thee eyes ee divorced from every context of humanity became a teas mes mesmeric marie meric horror which Increased hourly houry with wih its Is continuance They followed ones every ever action and movement movement they seemed to penetrate ones inmost penette thought thought It I is a torture under which the men inca mental tal fal 11 balanes of f many has ba actually given s given and the have watched en way eyes on and on while the prisoners mind was slowly loosened d from its it hinges hInge as the e pressure of ot this Inh nan ordeal ordel grad gradually gad gradually overpowered rd the defense e of the intellect Added to these horrors horr was wa the con constant sLant stant uncertainty or of Ufa itte lf Death D t Is a lighthearted infliction on the part pr of the Russian Russi n authorities and it i was the pleasure of the prison officials to in invest Inest Invest vest est the e daily n of a a victim our number numbe with the interest of ot ofa ofa a 3 lottery loter In place plc of selecting a vIe vic victim vc tim tm and conducting his hi execution in private we were all al paraded parde in Irregular lar Jar and haphazard order in the te prison square It I was wa the only time we saw s one an another another another other and the marked change visible In the appearance of many manO of us U was painful to t see Sf Then we were counted froth lr the right and the every eye tenth man man was waa ordered or ed to step to the te front These Thee were the doomed dome ones And we had to look on while with wih their backs to the prison wall U they t Y stood ta and felt fell before the rifles of or the soldiers After that that we were marched back wonder lag ing whose tomorrow tom r I escaped that daily de fy ordeal until banished to t Si Siberia berla beria whence I ultimately escaped but I saw sw the te lot fall fail ral upon unon my mO own brother one morning moring and saw sw hint him hin die di in that Russian Rusian prison prima yard ard Poor fel fellow fellow low he be had grown quite qute igray ay since sin our Incarceration These Thee are some of the te horrors of Russian Rusian despotism The Te young czar ezra is a I a humane man mn and wishes his pee peo people pe pie well wel but he be Is not permitted to know all al au that goes ge on and Is very ver lit Ut little little tle te more himself than a splendid prisoner prisoner in the te hands of the Bureaucracy Still Sti he knows enough to be conscious of the existence of terrible oppression and wrong and d he meant ment it every ever word when not long ago white while In England he explained What Wt would I not DOt give to t be a simple Eng English En English lish Ush country gentleman instead of iC czar of all aU the Russians Russia |