| Show IN A RUSSIAN HBO the terrible experience of a lie fined woman with brutal government officials Offic laii mine U C i noe nee koutouzoff was found guilty ot of opening a school for peasants children ib ildren independently of the ministry of public instruction says prince kropotkine in in his russian sian anil and french IIri prisons A As her crime crime was not penal and as moreover she was married to a foreigner gen gourko merely ordered her to be sent over the frontier this is is bow low she fihe describes her journey it horn om st bt petersburg to prussia I 1 ahall give extracts extrac ls from rom her narrative with out oat comment com meat morely merely promising that its accuracy even to 10 the minutest do tail is IB absolutely unimpeachable 1 I was sent to alno with fifty prisoners men and women from the railway we were taken to tile the town prison end and kepi there for two hours late at night might in an open yard under a drenching rain at last we were I 1 pushed dashed into a dark corridor and counted after many oaths and much foul Jau language guage til the e lire fire was lighted and I 1 found myself in a cpu cious room in which it was waa im impossible to take a step ili in any direction without treading on the women who were sleeping Ble on the iho floor iwo Two women who occupied it 11 bed took pity ou oil me and invited me to short ahara it wi with them em when I 1 awoke next morning I 1 was still suffering baio from the scenes of the day before but the female prisoners assassins and thieves were wera so ao kind to me that by and by I 1 grew cal baliu next nesb night might we were turned oat on t from the prison and paraded in the yard for a start under a heavy rain rain I 1 do not know how I 1 happened to escape the fists of the jailers its as the riso nors did not understand the evola evolutions etious all and d performed them under a storm ot of blows and curses those who saying that they ought not to bo be beaten were put in in irons irona and sent so to the train in the teeth of the law which says that in the cellular wagons no BO prisoner shall be chained arrived at lovilo nye we spent the whole day in in going from one police station to another in the evening we were taken to the prison for women here 1 I a week among murderess and woth worn en an arrested by mistake mis takai misfortune unites ites the fortunate and everybody tried to make life moro more tolerable for the rest all were very kind bind to me and did their best to console me on the tha previous day I 1 had eaten nothing for the day the prisoners are brought to the prison they receive to nonfood food so I 1 fainted from hunger and the prison er era gave ave me of their broad bread and were as irvind kind as they could be the female inspector however was on duty she was shouting out such shameless oaths as few drunken men would use after a weeks stay in koeno il wits was sent on foot to the next town after throe three d days aye march we ve camo to mor Mariom i pal my feet were wounded and nd my stockings full fall of blood th the 0 soldiers advised me to ask for a car buti bat I 1 preferred physical er erica ito g to the continuous cursing and foul foal language of the chiefs all the same they took we me before their command erand he remarked that I 1 had walked three days and so could walk a fourth we cama next day to kowol wol kopsk from whence we were to be sent on to prussia I 1 and five others wera but provisionally lathe in the depot the department were in in ruins so we ve were taken to the me mens as 1 I did no not L enow now what to do as there was no place to sit down except on the dreadfully filthy floor there was even no do straw and the stench on the floor sent me to vo instant ly y hero I 1 spent two days and two nights B gats passing the whole time at the window on oa the third jay day a soldier ot of the depot it a jew took me to his room a tiny cell where I 1 stayed with his wife the prisoners told old me that many of the them were war detained by mistake for seven or eight months awaiting their papers papera before being sent across the frontier it is easy to imagine their condition after a seven haven mouths months stay iq this sewer without a change ot of linen they advised me to rivo give the jailer money as lie ho would th then an send bend me ino on to prussia immediately but I 1 bad boon been six weeks on the way already und and my letter had not reach ed my laople at last the be soldier allowed me to go to the postoffice post office with lis lie wife and gjent eisent a registered let ter to st petersburg iburg madame 0 has influential kins folks in the cap ital and d in a few days daya the governor g general 1 telegraphed tor for her to be sent fijn n instantly to prussia sis my pop rs sho she said were disco discovered discoverer verea immediately and I 1 was waa sent bent to Eydt kunen and set at liberty |
