Show IX DISTAJfr MACIW Then Horrible rrnrlHr Prxctlatd In Mlierl LSD Feb 15 Provided with tt cable dlypatch of Introduction from deorgu Henhain thb hH brnlW BibtridK UfVyt the London agent lit the Associated Press culled this morning on Sergius Stepnlak t the wellknown writer upon Russian political and social condition Step niak when asked whether he could give any information in regard to the outrage in the political prison al teoutse eastern Siberia replied that the news already published gaVe only H hint of the horrible onl tragedy enacted at Kara Perfectly rfl InformaUoni he r had bten received in cipher letters that tell the story only lu Its main oUtllnti IUtJI details ot the dreadful affAir cannot be long now in reaching Uie western world coming com-ing F soon after publicity asglven to the Yakutsk atrocity The foctv so farreceived areas follows Madame ItahIlvot dId not commit suicIde as the earliest reports stated She died from time rpr of the cruel Hogging to which the was suljjected The Hoggins took place Wednesday November Mb It continued till rider thin brUtal blows Uiu unhappy victim lost consciousness con-sciousness and lay as one dead The news of her shocking murder produced pro-duced widespread dismay and anguish among time female fellow prisoners and three of them unable any longer to bear their wretched 1 fate committed suicide by poison ln The inmN nf the women were Marie Kalvyhuayn Maria Paoloona KaralefahajaandMadyhda Hmvi nitzkyai Marie Kaluyhuaya was arrested iulSaJ a girl of IS on A JAnE OP rJlStorALTT Every means tried to extort I confession con-fession Implicating her friends was f Jl1 nf bv tnh futile until Cot Katavaki brought n forged statement purporting to i the confession of her fellow conspirators con-spirators promising Immunity Marie fell into the trap confessed and her confession was used agnlnt her friends who were sentenced to penal servitude When she learned pna deception she irocured a revolver and tried t kill I I ivatauskl For this the was sentenced sen-tenced Tt twenty years penal servl ude wIUi exile to Siberia for life for belonging to the secret circle Her husband was sent a thousand miles from the mines to which > she was sent The separation drove her insane and IllS she was allowed to join herhuband In hope of a restoration toration but the new governor separated them again and she 3 returned t the Kara mine Madyhda Smvlnitzkaya was 33 years old and n student in the women college She was sentenced to the Kara mines for fifteen years with penal servitude Shortly after the suicide of the three women 1 brother of Marie valnybuaya also a political prisoner Ie er died suddenly Another exile named hobby committed suicide rather thin submit to the cruel humiliation hu-miliation and 6OFKEIUSO OF FWXJGIXO The Hogging ot Madame Sihlva occurred under orders Issued by LieutenantGeneral Baron Kent governorgeneral ot the uroTlura of Amoor ovcrorgetn the Kara pri < on Is situated These orders directed Uiat the secret edict of MarchlSsS signed 11 Galklnevroskl director general of prisons for the empire should tie unfiliifiilngly enfor = This edict was to the effect that politIcal convicts should be treated M f in LI by time prison officials in precisely I the same manner as criminal condemned Os for common law olTensr e OsIn what particular way Madame Slhiva trausKTetfed the prison rules is not clearly explained but the Hogging a sensitive and cultured woman to death for any lack of conformity to prison regulation Stepniak thought would Impress he wetern world with profound horror Political exiles Imprisoned at Sag lalian have 10 Imp oJ to cruel Hogging They were con tautly in dread of similar torture to that Inflicted upon Madame Sihlva Stepniak thought it not unlikely that the publication of the facts would force the superior officials of HUla to take some not of tie affair but the Hogging and all other brutalities were entirely due t the dirt orders of the central government govern-ment at 81 Petersburg |