Show ito law is enforced COVERED BLOOD A boy was taken to his mother whipped by the police E august 19 from st petersburg by way of london a reliable correspondent baa managed lo 10 smuggle through mails a story that is a remarkable addition to the record of kussian atrocities the correspondent writes A terrible of brutality by abc kassan authorities at war saw has caused great indignation throughout As usual tho facca leave conis little by and con aider ably alter date it was on may 31 last eliat the darl tr of general alho is a child was playing play ini with a ball in the saxe auriena tu riena at warsaw i bhe change to meet a boy named winter and struck linn aith he ball the boy who was only ten years old seized the ball and threw it back nith soma violence thereupon tho cherye of general cl ild rushed forward alie buy winter and benan to beat him tho lioy hotter er resisted hit back at the servant and called her names which showed that he haq a pole and had been taught to look with contempt upon the the servant called for the police and alie boy was tadeu and locked up all A full report of the incident was drawn up and sent to the governor general of the eral gourko on the morrow general gourko replied eliat tbt boy must be flogged and should receive 23 lashea according toche law this can only be administered to children bv pir winter s faglier was 3 the therefore hae applied to the boys mot liei they seeking out mr the boys vu tor or guardian Ru ardian they told mr ki that if he did not carry out the they would does im busino ps aliouse a cale nd eliop the tutor ib it he would jooa liis meana of con alio preparations were then made in duo form in accordance with the law the pr 0 actor was called then the boy ws brought from his coll and alie fl ini begun at the seventh stroke he fainted and the doctor said it would be dangerous to inflict such dolent pun the boy was of a highly nervous deposition and the doctor could not answer for his life if such torture was continued mr also was it at blows had produced ue angrily threw his whip away and said the primico might elbee his ivul ruin him choose but nothing could etim to finish the finding that both tutor and doctor obdurate the police and arit on authorities bent a dispatch U alio governor general asking for instructions and relating all that biad been done it v ill scarcely be credited that general gourko the heio of the plevna pass at once telegraphed back that the flops n tr lo 10 be finished tini shed the police therefore the tutor persisting in his refusal to act had to give alie unfortunate boy the remaining eighteen blowe BO as to complete the sentence insensible covered with blood his flesh torn from his bark and in a of violent convulsions tins young boy was brought bark to mother the unhappy woman had all this time been as to the fate ot her eon and the chock that his return in kuch a condition must have produced upon her must have well be imagined such cruelty as thip perpetrated for eo a reason on a very young has naturally greaty exasperated the polish of warsaw and it will be no easy matter for the russians to justify conduct of this nature |