RUSSIAN SENTENCES.
■ MANUFACTURED CRIME. By TeleErapli—Press Association—Copyright London, April 25. A trial of twenty.-seven: alleged Revo r lutionists took place at ..Moscow. Ten of the accused were acquitted and'seventeen found guilty.' ..:' ■Watson, a British youth.'was sentenced to sixteen months' imprisonment, and Yennakoff (the alleged leader) and five Russian lads were ordered to Siberia for life,; ."■'..'•-■'•. . : '■' . The Moscow ; correspondent of the "Daily News" tells a strange story with regard to'the arrest, of the accused persons. He says that Yermakoff accused his wife's lover, a man named Kvartalnoff, of being tho leader of the gang of Revolutionists, and that'Kvartalnoff retaliated, accusing Yermakoff. The police thereupon arrested twentyseven buspects at random. They also placed revolutionary placards in Watson's house, tortured Yermakoff, and otherwise manufactured evidence.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 802, 27 April 1910, Page 5
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122RUSSIAN SENTENCES. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 802, 27 April 1910, Page 5
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