Show rarities ra ciTiEs OF BROUGHT OUT AT peasants are beaten to death with out the formal ty of a trial men be ng compelled to beat their own relatives berson ninety seven peasants were tried here on tuesday on the charge of devastating the estate of M krivoshein formerly minister ot railroads three were sentenced to imprisonment while thirty four were acquitted the trial brought out a recital of the horrible atrocities committed by the authorities upon the accused the chief of the dis brict accompanied by a detainment of cossacks reached the estate soon after the devastation all the peasants on the ground were at once gath ered in no investigation was made the chief invited priests to adonnis ter the last sacrament to the prison ers and then ordered the cossacks to beat them all to death the butchery lasted tor tour hours the cossacks then thoroughly tired out compelled the peasants to continue flogging each other and men had to beat their own brothers eons and fathers the vie tims of this slaughter were innocent those really guilty having escaped by flight in spite of these revelations the court found sentences as related above |