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Show TITUN, Switzerland, March 28. . Kile, tatina LecntlefT, ti- Eussian vroraan who murdered a Frenchman named Kuller at Interlaken last September, Sep-tember, mistaking him for M. Durnovo, ex-Kinister of th Interior of Eussia, waa sentenced today to four years solitary sol-itary confinement and to twenty years Cnul3ion from the country. . rJh Prisoner complained that she had been, subjected to th utmost brutality by the examining magistrate and the prison wardens. When they were called to the witness stand they were unable to deny the charges. . . Mile. Leontieft Is a daughter of Gen. Iveontiert, who took an active part In the Russian campaign in Manchuria, and who afterward was Governor of one of the Russian provinces, and is a niece of the late Gen. Trepoff. She is said to have been concerned In an unsuccessful attempt upon the life of Trepoff in 1805, for which she was confined for some time in an Insane asylum. She was released upon her promise to leave Russia forever, and seemed then to have joined the revolutionary revo-lutionary group in Switzerland. .When M. Durnovo went abroad last year, Mile. Loontleff volunteered to execute exe-cute upon him the sentence of the "Flying "Fly-ing Group" of revolutionists, of which she was a member. While several hundred persons were at dinner In the Hotel Jungfrau, September 1, Mile. Leontieft rose from her seat at a table, drew a revolver re-volver from her reticule and deliberately fired at Charles Muller, a Frenchman, who was seated at a neighboring table. The first shot inflicted a fatal wound. The woman advanced to the prostrate body and fired four more shots. After her arrest It came out that Mile. Leon-I Leon-I tlcff had mistaken Muller for M. Durhpvo. |