| Show I S sensational Trial I Treason of f an Aged gei W Woman inan J i I I T PETERSBURG Jan ST S great woman Katherine lives In the dreaded fort fortress fortress ress of St Peter nn and St Paul awaiting the hour when she sho shall stan before her judges accused or of high treason tremon For years ars she has been known all aIL over Russia as the tho B Babushka bushka or Grandmother of oC th the Revolution Rev With her will ar Nicholas accused or of the samo crime a man who was Incarcerated In the fort fortress less ress for a year ear and a half hair but Who was as liberated on ball bail or of roubles found by generous friends s In InI America Amerl a and In England I Hoth the accused are arc known jn America It was t to the United States I as the cradle of freedom that Mme Ime came to seek seck funds lot fOI lother her ler work of lIber and mert In Russia Mr lr lec lured In America In order to raise mone money for exiles In Siberia who often do not receIve the miserable pittance of 5 cents a day the Russian government govern government ment Is supposed to pay them for fOl home and amid food One dau daughter of oC America Mrs Irs Isabella Isa Isabella bella Barrows wIre wife of the head of th the prison commission made a pilgrimage to St Petersburg In order older to Intercede with the prime minIster M 1 on behalf of the aged She was called back from rom the Illness or of her husband hus husband band and returned o 0 America only to tobe tobe be with him durIng his last hours hen all WitS over oer and putting aside her own great sorrow she started again and suc succeeded succeeded In hi seeing H 1 Stol ln at St Petersburg She was unable however to gaIn an any amelioration of lot In to her ap appeal appeal peal to the humanitarian Instincts or of orthe the premier and to her plea pica that some consideration Shown hown to an old woman of CS 68 who could hard hardly prove a danger dancer to the mighty Rusian empire M r replied Mme was wal a dun revolutionist and must awaIt hr her trial In the me fortress ss There she has hall been for the thel last two years There she still remain I can never neer drive al along ng the Palace Quay Qua ip 11 the tho gay procession or of sumptuous sledges sledge without remd the lonely lonel old woman sitting III hl her cheerless cell een In IntI Inthe tI the o gloomy on the opposite bank Of tho rIver above which I a loft and slender pinnacle or of gold In the sunlight ROMANTIC A IC CAREER 5 No Ru Russian has had amore amoro romantic career carcer lh than n Katherine The daughter of par parents of at noble birth sho earl earl Interest Interested ed herself In social questions and nt at atthe the age of oC I 10 went to St P Petersburg with her to find out what older and more experienced persons were thinking Into our OUI on the am quoting her own OWl me a handsome young oung prince returning front from official duties In SiberIa For hours liours ho with me mb the were rush rushIng rushing Ing upon us HIs words thrilled like 1110 fire OUr voices voice rose steadily hIgher until m my mother nother bade me to speak low The Tho young oun Is now an old man In exile HIs name Is n I Peter Hero Here Is 0 link Prince I r the In theory theor who has lived so many years cars In exile In England wn was the first to put Mno no k on the t c path whIch has hns lei led I her to the fortress Three years later she married n a man of oC liberal lul vIews leis and the young oun settled on their estate In the count county it 11 Is a poor patrIot who will not Ihor try hIs government bron h rises against It t and Mimic mo jv began to try to and Improve th condition or of the cowed peasantry n n her llOr new home b by legal Ital mean The rhe cons consequence quence of oC these was wa that the young were b bath th Ie d dI un under el police surveillance as danse omi otis I Liberals Thwarted In her efforts tho wife when whon was G 0 went to h her r husband and ached hIm a plain IUt you OU willing to olie Ive or death In this cause of freedom Ire said kald that he was not Then she left It hi him JOINS JOI S J REVOLUTIONISTS EVOLUTION She went to Kieff and Joined Joined a rove reo group The Tho specie special was glen her to do was the task ot of spreadIng the new dens the ignorant peasantry t l i m w 4 iF I J I I IVe If Ve put c on peasant dress writes i iMme D Mme to elude the tho po IX I Ilice f lice and Ind break down the pe peasants I cringIng distrust r dressed In I bark shoes coarse shirt and J nil I heavy cloak I used acid on my face I f I amid hands I worked and ate with the tho II peasants I learned their language I I traveled on foot Coot forging passports I 1 Illegally j IJ This work came to an abrupt end In 1174 when site was arrested and after spending 10 months In a Russian prison f was sent cent to SIberia There Thern she aho Te rev II 3 years In company with I I Iother other eXiles she madea daring attempt to escape and succeeded In I Ili I miles toward the tho Pacific Paci 11 c Arrested 1 I again site she was condemned to fou I I years ears hard labor at Some of C I 1 her friends there lied fled and those thole win who I remained were punished for tor not giving I the thO police pollee Information as to their os cape Ono One morning Cossacks Co ll her hor cell tore off her clothes and farted d II her fler to put on a filthy convict dregs alive alho with t vermin Then she was ed cd UP In a black mole holo For years ears tho rho never breathed the outer all air l and nl the horrors ot of the life were re 1 j I I doubled b by the terrible scenes she Ahe wag i forced to witness s One woman I died bleeding bl and moans I I front Com the lash Her IIer trine crime hid le lei tl that she had struck nn an official who thad t thad had forced Coreed his hateful and Insulting t II upon her SHOT GOVERNOR j I ITo To avenge the murder of this c i I ful woman a friend or of Madame Breh I I c who was also In ht the tho Kala I I j prison oD determined when her term of cl i I exile was nas over to murder the oC o 1 Sine She left her hor husband I e tand t I and walked hundreds or of miles on hI h r I terrible errand Arrived at last at the tho I I d I s governors house she shot hint him il From Kam Jaro Madame I wits sent to a hamlet by J i I I Burials near nea the Chinese frontier t m j i I 1 Thor Ther In utter loneliness hundreds or of I mlles mile from any educated European she sho seven years Site She was al allowed y lowed IG a b by tile the government Slier Her hut but rent was 50 cents wood 10 I and amI food h 1 The fhe money she received I from Crom friends abroad or In Russia she ho hoset set tl to at Kern ICarD who In r ra j a 0 still more hopeless condition than I I she became almost n herself Sometimes I frantic with loneliness To k keep ep my sanity she writes I 1 would run out f fon c con on the tho snow shouting passionate era ora I or 01 even playing the prima donna J and singing opera arias to th bleak blea 1 landscape which never applauded BACK TO RUSSIA 11 In she receIved lon ion to tj be thought I return to to Russia Russin It might 1 that the terrible punishment of oC s exile In Siberia would have conquered con years rears her restless spirit ln the she Nhe began bean again to o work o C with I energy as if to uv up for the years ears wasted In ox exile lie Again b a serIes o of n adventures and I escapes t tOn On one occasion the police canto came In into I Ito to 1 tt house where she was living tit at i Odessa In n a twinkling she had h ll changed Iles Hm shawl had como come up over oer I i w lid hel t thead head her hen hands were clasped In I 1 t her lap her head nodded A b nl do I woman with a pfd I I vacant grit grin on liar hor Inca was what tho police found The Tho plan succeeded I and later she wont to live at another I iii time south ut posing as a French FrenchWoman place hrs Woman a role she was s n gifted for Cor playing as like e man many Ru Bus II knew french long IonS l I clan aristocrats site before she knew Russian i In 1903 able was living nt at Kleff wIth 1 I a young younS girl or of Ii 17 al also o n a revolutionist I AttN After site she had been there thero a week the jl I loused suspIcions or of the pollee were i and the they came to make inquiries f I out Luckily was n and the girl got rId ot et the th ponce pollee b y saying that her grandmother had como comae to stay When they had gone gona I she sho ran enn out In the raIn to a se secret I re revolutionary meeting at which her hur friend was The They at once transformed the fugitive Into fl a tash fash or of time tho world Slue She drove to the station In grand style and made good h her r escape OJ OF MIND One ot of Mme Ime personal frIends told me n to she never lost her I presence of at mind for a moment when In danger daner To illustrate this hu he men i cloned hat t site she once arrived at a cOlln i tr try railway station anti nOlI found It tilled filled with gendarmes whore whom she sho know knew wore for her Without n a moments hesitation she sho went up UI to the Ule sacred Icon alwa always to be found In n n a Russian station and began to 1 bon w low lowa m mand a and d h rs lC nt time tho Continued ou on page pac tr tri i SENSATIONAL TREASON TRIAL OF AGED WOMAN Continued from page paJo thirteen 11 greatest devotion It never occurred to her pursuers that the pious old pens peas peasant ant woman was the Ulo of oC the tho Revolution and she ho quietly en the Ule train and left leCt them fur far bo be hind Two years later Mme sailed ailed for America to get gel fonds for Cor the tho work or of Russia Hussla from the tho yoko ot of When In the tho States she Bho said she did not believe the RU Russian police would over bo be able to arrest her hor again She Shu was wrong There were traitors In the tho revolution nry ary camp and rather more than two years ago she sho was once more In a prison cell coll There this old woman or of 68 still re remains mains here In the tho heart of oC SL Peters burg Twice this year ear Nicholas II If hw has hwI I pas passed close to her cell when ho he canto to the fortress of oC St Peter and St Paul to attend the tho funerals or of his uncles the tho Grand Duke Duko Vladimir and the tho Grand Duke Alexis She Sho hn has lost In tho game and the tho czar whose power she has striven to overthrow still remains au or of all the tho Russians In spite of oC the presence of oC the tho duma In reality u a asham sham parliament to humbug the tho clors of the dawn or of freedom will not rise on RussIa until a long struggle has been n made will shortly shortt stand before her judges jUdge That she be convIcted there thoro Is no reasonable doubt It Is to be 00 hoped that she sho will be allowed to quietly retire abroad M As tt is 19 for tO tro years she has heel been In solitary confinement Recently her herron herson son ron who Is not In sympathy with his mothers political views view has been per permitted to go 10 and see her occasionally occasIonal I I With Madame ns as has alread boon been stated will stand In the criminals dock Nicholas Tchaikovsky Ills His case Is tar far different He stands accused Cd or of haying having accompanied Ma la dame on a tour In tho ho Interior or of Russia with the object of oC stirring up the peasantry against the tho government Title as ho told me when I saw him a 0 fow ow days das ago depends only on tho evidence or of agents provo provocateurs or of a very vague character lies has never been beon a member ot of the tho Social Revolutionary party but butIs Is ii merely a keen advocate of oC reform In hi Russia He I is enough to have tavo do documents proving that he was either In America or England on man manor many or of the tho occasions when accor according to the police pollee ho he was wao supposed to tn be bc addressing revolutionary meetings In Inthe inthe the heart hoort ot of Russia The real head antI and front or of his of offending rending fending is 18 that during the tho period ho he was enlightening pUblic lon Ion abroad as to the true truo state or of the Russian empire Old In years Year hut but tout stout ot of heart will he too have to take tak that long road read to tho ho frozen north there to be compelled l to suffer during the evening of rm lai days ai An All over the tho world the many friends ot of Katharine eky and Nicholas arc aro ratting with anxiety to hear th the ro salt or of their Il trial k iA Y A |
