Show ARREST TRIAL AND EXECUTION ALL IN TWO SEVENTY-TWO HOURS ST. ST PETERSBURG July 23 The T The e new regulations concerning a mode modo of procedure for the military district courts introduced July 20 have now begun to bear fruit and the results constitute constitute constitute con con- a close dose approach to the tho notorious ous one reign of the drumhead mar courts which were abolished by the late douma The innovations shorten the tho entire course of the inquest and trial allowing allow c ing only ony two seventy hours between indictment in in- and execution including the appeal of the prisoner to th the military court of cassation and the decision of this court The former regulations allowed allowed al al- al lowed a fortnight ht for this procedure The new military courts are now obliged to hand down sentences without without with with- out waiting to hear the testimony of witnesses who may be absent They also enjoy jurisdiction over a wider area than the former drumhead courts which only operated in in the provinces that had been placed under a state of extraordinary defense The number of executions under the then n new w rulings n show a I sudden increase At Kiev yesterday five sappers tappers were executed exe exe- and today another sapper was sentenced to death Three peasants have been executed at Moscow another at Warsaw and at three workmen have been put to death under decisions handed down by these thelle new courts At t 4 t m liga a a a. yui UL n man pai la ii 11 i Bernt wen went into a nothing store selected an n overcoat and Ud started for the tho door without without without with with- out having paid for it WhEn asked to settle his lila IJ bill l le Ie drew a revolver covered cov eo- o ered the the lark I rk and succeeded in getti g r away He was later capture 1 and sen ten sentenced to death tl Another young man named was sentenced to death at Ri Biga a for the theft of and two girl accomplice accomplices a aeL cd 12 and 20 years were sentenced t io ill exile and hard labor for life |