Deseret Evening News | 1905-02-25 | Page 21 | Cossacks Using the Knout on a Mob

COSSACKS COSSACKS USING THE KNOUT ON A MOB The rhe picture the In which tho Iho mounted Cossacks of ot the tho guard attempted to quell I II ell the tho recent uprising of ot the at nt St Petersburg The Iho original knout consisted of oC thongs of oC hide hili Intermingled With wire wll strokes were equivalent to death This Tille barbaric weapon was 1111 abolished by h the Nicholas the present knout which amounts to H 1 stout lash of or hardened hide hille wan wu substituted In thu days of oC serfdom thin menus of oC punishment wan Wall In common lIlIon tine lI a hilt but It II that the COI still cling to lo It Theoe fht e name Ct by the way have suffered a II loUM loss of ot since Inca their thell rather ft bl ah In III the Hie Ilus oJ p ne e Will war