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Show ' Banished to Archangel. ST. fETliHtsiiURO. Nov. . Mary Fig. ner, who has been confined to the Schlus-selburg Schlus-selburg fortress for twenty years, has been released and banished to Archangel, northern Russia. The woman was condemned con-demned to life Imprisonment for participating partici-pating In nihilist conspiracies. She waved her handkerchief as a signal indicating the approach of Alexander II. when he was assassinated her in 18X1. Her brother, a famous Russian singer. Interceded Inter-ceded In her behalf with Alexander II. and secured a commutation of her sentence sen-tence to twenty years' imprisonment. As the woman still shows desperate nihilistic sentiments, she has now been banished. |