SENTENCED TO DEATH.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 444, 1 March 1909, Page 7

SENTENCED TO DEATH.

PRISONERS ENDEAVOUR TO POISON THEMSELVES. IbT TEr.EGEiri! PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYUIfIUT ) St, Petersburg, February 2G \The prisoners who escaped from Alexandrovsky prison wero sentenced to deatli. They refused to ask the Tsar for commutation of their sentences, and endeavoured to poison themselves, FIVE SOCIALISTS EXECUTED. (Roc. February 2S, 4.40 p.m.) St. Petersburg, February i' 7. Fivo members of the fighting section of the Polish Socialist party havo been executed at Warsaw for murder aud robbery. THE RUSSIAN GALLOWS. On l'cbruary G eighteen death sentences were announced 111 St. Petersburg. Fifteen wero connected with tlio escape from the ; Alexandrovsky prison. Including thoso at Ekaterinoslav (for the revolutionary seizuro of the Katherino Kailway in 1003), eight executions aud iovty-two death sentences wero announced at St. Petersburg on January 2. Tlio Duma adjourned on that day for the Christmas holidays. The closing sitting was marked by an unusual incident. 1 roiessor Miliukoir moved a resolution condemmng the death sentences, which wero filling tlie whole of Russia with horror ami indignation. v Tho resolution was rejected, and thereupon the entire Opposition, consisting of Constitutional Democrats, I'rogressists, Social Democrats, and Labour members, walked out of the hall as a protest, and remained absent when the House adjourned. The resolution dwelt _ upon tho ever-increasing number of executions and death sentences which had lately risen at an unprecendented rate, blunting th 9 moral sense of tho country, and casting a slur upon tho honour aud dignity of Russia as a civilised State. Professor Jtiliukofli was frequently interrupted from tho' Eight benchfs, and Jr. Koiuaikoff, tho President, was obliged to call to order several members who ongaged in recriminations. After tho demonstrative departure of the Opposition the Octobrisfc leader, M. GoutchkofT, who was warmly applauded by the majority, made a ■ short speech in favour of the rejection of tho rcsolution, which, ho snid, embodied the well-known sympathy of the Constitutional Democrats for terrorist acts. Excepting the "Novoye Vremva," which charges tho Constitutional Democrats with aiming at a cheap advertisement bv posing as heroes of humanity, the St. Petersburg press endorsed tho Tho "Slovo" speaks of tho unexampled mercilessness of such a "nightmare judgment" after an interval of three vears since the nets of tho accused. Tho "Ketch" dwells on the severity of tho majority to tho Government, while tho "Ituss" says that a great moral blow has been dealt to the Octobrists.