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Show f Part Two VOL. TV-N- O. THE MORNING OGDEN 174 CITY, UTAH, SUNDAY EXAMINER MORNING JUNE 23. i re- - Pages 9 to 16 PRICE 1907. FIVE CENTS .ess itsmsn HORRORS OF THE INQUISITION ARE REVIVED IN WARSAW FIENDISH BARBARITIES, SURPASSING THOSE PRAUT1UED AT RIGA, PEHIETRATED OX PRISONERS IlY THE POLICE AFTHORITIES OF THE POLISH CAPITAL WITH THE OBJECT OF OBTAINING -- EVIDENCE ON WHICH TO CONVICT EITHER THE VICTIMS THEMSELVES OR OTHER PERSONS SlSPECTKD OF HAVING BROKEN THE LAWS REAL GITLT OR INNOCENCE OF THE ACCUSED IS A MATTER OF SE(NDAED IMPORTANCE TO THE AGENTS OF -- JUSTICE." WHOSE SOLE OlUElT IS TO MAKE OUT A CASE" AND BY MAKING MANY SUCH TO GAIN PROMOTION FOR THEMSELVES dll ASTLY SUCCESS REWARDS THEIR EFFORTS. SCORES OF UNFORTUNATES BEING DRIVEN TO mNFESS THEMSELVES GUILTY OF CRIMES THEY NEVER COMMITTED OR TO ACCUSE OTHERS OF DEEDS OF WHICH THEY HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE. Tm. Poland, June 13. lish- speaking people have All Eng- dence fit the crime. They were asby a lot of lusty and callous attendants. But both these monsters are dead, having been killed by tbe friends of their victims. At present Ivan Pletrovitch lvanoff ia doing their work, and in a way proves he has learned his lesson well. He works under a Public Prosecutor, or Procurator. Alexis Sergevltch Alexieff. Both of them visit the scenes of pulltical outrages, as It is their business (o collect materials la connection with the trial which must inevitably follow, whether the guilty beatings have not much effect lvanoff uses more drastic measurer. It does not matter that the victims often know nothing about tbe crime in particular or revolutionary societies in general. lvanoff has got hold of them, and means to make use of them. Not only that, but other prisoners are placed within earshot of the torture room, that they may hear tbe shrieks, become unnerved end confess what they know or dont know. The victim is strapped onto a table, face downward, and beaten bn the spine. But nut with an indin rubber tube thle time. A small wooden box is put on hie or her spine and beaten with a hammer. Those who have experienced it say that the agony thus produced beggars all description the more delicately the victim has been nurtured the worse is the pain, which shoots through every nerve in the body each time the hammer touches the little box. When this form of torture baa been applied for some time lvanoff agal n repeats his Should the answers still questions. be unsatisfactory the rack is applied, hair la torn out by the roots, teeth broken and ears cut off. It must not be forgotten that often these victims are entirely Innocent of tbe crime lvanoff accuaee them of, that he knows it and only tortures them to get evidence for one of his cases" so that he may get a reward and ult Imately promotion. The following cases have happened within the last few weeks. A policeman was shot in tbe Dluga street and tbe assassin or assassins reaped. Tbat ame day lvanoff came across a boy of 17, named Nordvint, arrested for theft. Confess that you shot the policeman and you wont he imprisoned for theft," said lvanoff, and tbe atapid boy, not thinking about the possible punishment for shooting a polioemtn, agreed, lvanoff wanted two witnesses to bear out Nordvlnt'a confession." He walked to the scene of the nnr Her, eaw a couple of market women there and arrested them.' They were taken to the town hall and questioned about the policeman's murder. Though beaten with the India rubber whips they declared they knew nothing about lt as they were not in the street at the time. ' Nordvint was shown them, and they were told to Identify him as tbe boy murder. They who committed the aid they did not know Nordvint, and again declared they had mot aeon the murder. lvanoff then ordered the two unfortunate women to be beaten again. Their teethe were knocked out and their thumbs screwed till the nails dropped from the flesh. Then they gave an account of the murder and identified Nordvint ns the murderer, heard of sisted the torture, practiced on Russiaa political primmer, at Riga. The recent revelation concerning them sent n thrill of horror through civilisation. But hardly a whisper has reached the outside world of the atrocities perpetrated on prisoners here, although the fiendish system has been In operation for years. Its application la not confined to political prisoners. Persons accused of all aorta of Crimea are subjected to it Neither set nor age secures immunity from It Ben and women, youths and maidens are numbered by hundreds its Inhuman baramong the victims barities. Tbs question of guilt or innocence bad little to do with it. The object is to extort s confession which will secure n conviction of somebody. The cruelties of the Inquisition alone afford n parallel to it. To escape from h.irrible agony scores of poor wretches have been driven to confess themselves guilty of crimes which they never committed, or to accuse others of deeds of which they had no knowledge. The Warsaw aRatusiH or town hall, an imposing building, ia the scene of these barbarities. On the second floor Is a large room stretching right serosa the front of the building. This is the torture chamber. Anybody is laible to undergo the third degree here. The police hear of a meeting in a square or a procession in the street. They surround it mud the people who have the misfortune to be passing near It and drive them en masse to tbe town hall. The big gate is opened and they are kept for the time being in the courtyard beyond it Then the gates are shut lost the public should pry at their who are beatunfortunate fellow-meen by the soldiers and mounted police as soon as they get within the precincts of ths town halt Then they are driven into a room on the ground floor and requested to give up their passports. If, after' communicating with ths police la the district of the town that they live in the passports are found to be quite satisfactory they mar be set free. But the process has taken the whole of the night ans meanwhile the people have been herded together In one room, without being able to ah down without food, drink or fresh nlf. Those who for any reason have fallen under the suspicion of - the police are detained. They ere driven to the tort are chamber and there admonished to answer all questions that may be put to them. This warning la accompanied by a blow from, a rifle butt, a slash from a riding whip nr long pieces of India rubber tubing, which cause terrible pain without leaving much trace behind. The victims are beaten on the back, adomen. legs, breast and soles of the feet. Often their shrieks can be heard In the street outside and In the neighboring house. In spite of the double windows and thick doors of the torture chamber. After this first installment of torture the questions begin. At one time until a few months ago two police officers named Konatantinoff and (iron were the chief adopts In this terrible method of making the evi A . about the matter, waa so frightened at the threats and the sight at tho torture that he gave ths name of a Stanislas Zielyoung photographer inski, who, he thought, had helped to take the notes. Where dues he flea?" asked Urun. But Buttermilk did not know. All he could say waa that ths last time he saw Zielinski, tho latter said he was going eo a funeral that very afternoon. Urun looked over tho list of funerals, w hich tho police publish earh day, and concluded that It would most likely be that of a mats railed Bmanual Zand. Urun went to the fuueral, followed by a convoy pt soldiers and took Mutternillch along to point out the photographer. Miiueraitlrb was so frightened that he could not remember which waa Zielinski, so Urun had all tho men arrested who followed the bier. They were taken to the Raines, or town hall, and when Zielinski was discovered anion get them he let theo others go. Jduiiernilloh was also set free, but only to be arrested Just before the trial, after which ha waa Imprio-onefor four years. Zielinski denied haring anything to do with the falao hank notes. Though beaten until ho was a mass of wounds ho per slated In pmteatlng his innocence. . lvanoff would have put him on tho rack, but Gran knew human nature better. He determined to try moral torture. He had found out that ZieN luakl lived with a woman to whom be waa very much attached. Ho sent one of his agents too telephone to Zielinski at the Rat u as, saying that aho had typhoid fever, waa very ill and continually asking what had beoome of her lover, who, of course had not been heard of since he left home to Zielinski asked go to the funeral. leave to be allowed to go home, as he was innocent Of the charges brought against him. Grua refused and refused to let him go to tho telephono and tell the woman be was alive and well, though In prison. The man Buffered mental agonies for a week, and finally when he got a note, purporting lo he from the landlord of the bouse, saying hla mistress was dying be lagged Gran to let him go, even tf escorted by a policeman; that ho would confess everything, own to everything if he wight only uee her for an hour. Oran, after making him sign a paper, in which hla guilt, wppouad or real, waa act forth, let him go, ualed fey three armed agents who were tu bring him back la aa hoar. When he gut home he found that tho women, though worn out with anxiety about him was well, had never had typhoid fever nor authorised any oao lo send a telephone message to him, Zielinski. In despair in which he ba4 been duped, tried to kill himself with a kitchen knife. The agents drxggod him bark to prison and be waa brought up for trial, though be declared ho knew nothing about the banknotes, and tbat he signed the confession because he thought tho women ho loved was dying and to see her ba waa willing to sacrifice hlo life. Ho waa sentenced to hard labor for tea years. He la now ia tho mines la Siberia. h , This atrocious torture would never have coins to light, tut Nordvint, at hie trial, threw himself at the judge'e feet and told him what had happened. The two women, encouraged by hla example, then told how they had been driven by suffering to perjure themselves. And lvanoff? He was mildly reproved and ordered to release the prison era. He obeyed, but the women were rearrested before the day was over and have not been heard of since. It is whispered that lvanoff revenged himself upon them by tort wring them to death. later a man named threw a bomb and killed an official. He managed to escape end the organ of the revolutionary society of which he wag a member stated that he had left the country. But lvanoff was bent upon making a case of it So he arrested another man named Stein, and began to torture him. Not only was he beaten; his hair was pulled out by the roots, his teeth broken and his ears cut off. At last the poor r, wretch, who did not evin know confessed" that he was and bad thrown tbe bomb. He is in tbe prison hoepltal, in bed A few days Perl-mutt- Perl-mutte- Perl-mutt- er and suffering from the terrible effects of Ivanov's monstrous cruelty. His trial for bomb throwing will come on as eoon he ie able to walk. A man who lay next to' him In the hospital heard ths story from his own Ups, and knows that his nsme is Bleia and not Perimutter. When foreigners ia Warsaw bear of these things they generally laugh incredulously. They cannot believe that human beings are tortured la this manner In the twentieth century, yet It Is true, and not only are poll Heal prisoners treated In thle way, but persons suspected of other crimes as well. Similar atrocities are perpetrated throughout Russia. Attached to every tribunal In tbe land ia an Inquisition Judge, who la the bead of the Inquisition court. It la he who pule the machinery in motion tbat extorts evidence from prisoners. The principle which underlies this system Is that a man or woman arrested by the police is looked upon as guilty. So according to the official view, ths sooner the unhappy person owns up ths better. The numbers of the sue pects have, of course, greatly increased since the revolutionary movement -- began but tbe system is one of very old Blending. Men like Ivan Pletrovitch lvanoff end Alexia Sergcvltch Alexieff, though in a modified form, are to be found la all large centers of Justice. Alciie Bergevitrh, though not of tbe same family as the famous Alexieff of the war. ia a ntaa of good birth.. Having finished school fee went through the Boole dee Droits," which Russo-Japanes- In the Russian equlvnlnit for the Inner Temple for Barristers la Hnglend. Then be Was attached to the Inquisition court and noon became procurator. Ivan Pletrovitch lvanoff la the sun of a sergeant In tbe Uthuanlan Ouarda regiment. He was brought up In one of the military orphanages and entered the police force as a secret agent" or spy which means that he waa attached to the Inquisition court. After doing brutal work for the notorious Onin, who was the moat noted agent" In Russia, and used to be sent for to Moscow and Petersburg when some great criminal investigation took place, he became his most trusted agent. When Urun waa assassinated lvanoff took hie place. There are signs that lvanoff will outstrip his predecessor. He le said to be inventing new ways of torturing hla victims. The small box" idea originated with Urun, wbo, however, being an educated wan he was tbe son of a doctor with a good practice preferred to Inflict moral tortures upon his polltictls." lie once said with a cynical smile on hla thin, keen face, You can beat a peasant and bn will tell you everything; hut get hold of a student and you must torture his mind rather, than his body." Urun acted up to his theories. He would leave no stone unturnBd that might help him to get up hla csss." 8me time before his death he was on the track of a band of men who had made false banknotes, which were passed by a Jewish banker named landau. Grua pounced upon the cashier of the bank a Jew named Simon Mutlenullch had him brought to ths torture room, 'where the whips were In 'readiness and said, If you tell tho name of one of tho forgers 111 let you go. If not, you shall be beaten with these whips, your bones will bo broken on tbat rack, and youll bo aent to Siberia for ten years." Muttermilcb, wbo knew very little no-co- (Continued on Page Twelve.) s 4 |