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Title: In the uttermost East, being an account of investigations among the natives and Russian convicts of the island of Sakhalin, with notes of travel in Korea, Siberia, and Manchuria
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Hawes, Charles Henry, 1867-1943
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Publisher: London, Harper
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ththe prisoner. Another, whom I was shown, was a member of agang of five pictured in the illustration, who hadattacked and murdered three soldiers camping in a shelterin the forest. This one, who is on the extreme right inthe picture, alone escaped hanging. Yet another waspointed out to me who, having previously escaped fromprison, presented himself boldly in broad daylight at ahouse in Alexandrovsk, which was temporarily in chargeof a soldier. He said he had been sent by the kappellmeisterfor the musical instruments, but before the soldier hadtime to reply the brodyaga had felled him with an axe ora club. Finishing his ghastly work with a knife, themurderer dragged the corpse to a trap-door in the floor,and dropped it into the potato-cellar. This happenedabout midday, and the baker calling shortly afterwards,and spying blood on the floor as he came in to depositthe loaf, immediately suspected foul play, and shouted, Help, help! Two men hurried up in answer to his cries> -■ 2 ^ -
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A RIDE THROUGH THE TAIGA 317 and held the doors. The prisoner then made for a window,but the Military Governor (predecessor of the present) waspassing at the time, and seeing a disturbance, ran up justin time to receive the prisoner as he leaped through thewindow. On the whole the prisoners were fortunate in havingMr. S. as the nachalnik of the district in which theirprison lay. He was energetic, not unkindly disposed, andclear-headed enough to see through attempts to deceivehim. Of his private life I do not intend to speak. The following was told me by one who was no friendof his, and therefore carries the more weight. A politicalexile had been appointed school teacher in his district, andthe chief arranged to pay him twenty-five rubles a month.The salary, like the rations given to an exile-settler inhis first or second year, was payable at the end of themonth. Any remonstrance, to the effect that a man mightstarve before that time, was met by the official reply thaton the other hand

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