Show HEAD DRUM COURTS BUSY IN RUSSIA Many Persons Executed and Many More Ordered Tried St St. Petersburg Nov 8 Drumhead courts have ha been bus busy in nu Russia la for Cor two months mouths past past In that time lime persons have ha been b en executed Thirty Thirty- five more were iere ordered tried but their fate Is as yet unknown Tw Twenty six nt were acquitted acquited One wa pardoned after aHer condemnation because it was discovered discovered discovered dis dis- covered that thai he had only murdered another terrorist Three persons an- an execution b by suicide In addition to this lila eight persons were shot without even the formality of hearings and seven thirty were iere executed under sentences by the lie regular regular regular regu regu- lar military tribunals Hos Ho's Brutally Shot I The Riga correspondent of the Bourse Gazette Gazelle Gaele sent that paper a harrowing harrowing har liar I rowing description of the recent execution exe cution of or three young oung boys convicted by drumhead martial court court maUal of ot robbery I and condemned to death The were placed against a awaI awall wall ivall waI In the lie court yard of tho the barracks bar bar- racks mels and amid their pitiable appearance so 50 unnerved ed the troops that they fired wl wildly l and several volleys ollos ollo's were necessary sa sam sary 1 before the little fellows were 1 finally nai killed The cl city of niJ Riga hugo Is Js great greatly wrought up over the thirsty blood justice that lint would take talce the lie lives of oC children and andall andal andall all al clas classes clashes s of subjects express freely Creel great indignation at the executions I J I |