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Show INDICTMENT OF GORKY. . It Contains Text of Document Alleged to Be Revolutionary. ST. PETERSBURG, April S. Tho In-dlctment In-dlctment of Maxim Gorky, who la styled therein "an artisan of Is'izznl Novgorod, Alexis Maxlmoff Mesehkoff," contains tho text of a document found in the St. Petersburg Pe-tersburg residence of Advocate Eugene Kedrine and the authorship of which Gorky is alleged to have admitted. This document styles tho shooting of tho vrork-men vrork-men premeditated massacre and accuses Prlnco Svlatopolk-Mlrsky (who at tho lime waa Minister of the Interior) of Mil-ful Mil-ful and unprovoked murder. It continues: "'Emperor Nicholas M-as Informed of tho character of tho workmen's movement, and of the peaceful Intentions of his Intb subjects, tho Innocent victims killed by the soldiers, but notwithstanding this knowledge, he allowed them to bo massa cred. We, thercture. accuse him also oi having continued the killing of peoplo who In no wls; provoked such measures." The document details the events or Sunday, January 22, tho day on which the troops llred on tho workmen In St. Petersburg, and points out the absence ot a revolutionary character to the demonstrations. demon-strations. It relates that tho days previous previ-ous to tho disturbance the signatories ot the document M'ent to Minister of Justice Jus-tice Muravlen with a view to requesting him not to order out tho troops and to enable tho workmen to speak freely with tho Emperor. Tho signatories were Informed In-formed oy the secrelury of tho Minister that It M-aa no affair of tho Minister ot Justice. Afterward, the documont says, they M'ent to the president of tho Committee, of Ministers, AVitte, to M'hom thoy expressed ex-pressed the fear that blood would bo shed. M. WItte replied that Interior Minister Min-ister Svlatopolk-MirBky was moro accurately accur-ately informed as to the stato of affairs, but Emperor Nicholas certainly had been mado acquainted with tho situation. M. Wltte added that personally he -M'as Impotent Im-potent to do anything. They tolophoned to Prince SvIatonolk-SIIrsky, asking tho Minister of tho Interior of ho M'ouid receive re-ceive tho deputation, but Prlco Svinto-polk-Mlrsky refused to do bo. Tho document docu-ment concludes: "Wo declaro that such an ordor ot things cannot longer bo tolerated and call on nil citizens of Russia to enter into an imminent and relentless universal struggle strug-gle with the autocracy." Tho Indictment sots forth that Gorky admitted In writing that ho composed the document referred to above, with a view to sending It to all St Petersburg newspapers, news-papers, hoping that at least- ono of them would publish it |