Russian Police

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 23, 4 August 1885, Page 3

Russian Police

Four of the prisoners implicated in the alleged frauds at Kertch have, according t* a correspondent, been arraigned before the Chief Criminal Tribunal at Odessa on a separate charge. The prisoners are i Mainovski, police master; Volski, chief ! inspector of police ; Yeserski, secretary |to the police master ; and cbii-f gaoler Metelino. The evidence adduced in this case discloses an extraordinary scandal.

The names of some hundreds of prisoners were duly entered on the police records as serving itheir various terms of imprisonment, but in reality these prisoners were all secretly liberated on payment. In •oe instance cited several of the released convicts, with the concurrence of these officials, broke into the suburban dwelling of a young married couple. The man was murdered ia his sleep, the woman escaped with some grievous wounds on the head. The Chief Inspector of Police* Volski, now appeard en the scene, and had the unfortunate women conveyed to the hospital. She, believing in the demonstration of sympathy and indignation of the inspector, entrusted him with the sum of 1500 roubles which she had saved from the murderous and plundering gang, until she was convalescent. The woman recovered rapidly, and returned to find her house a heap of rutned walls. The police, probably believing her recovery impossible, had sold everything on the premises, and made a wreck of the house. Confronted with the Inspector of Police this poor woman was threatened with imprisonment, and her deposit of 1500 roubles with him was repudiated. Every hotel and publicliouse in Kertch was compelled to pay a monthly tribute to those officials.

The Waivarapa Star warns people against a man calling himself a pianotuner, who has on more than one occasion obtained access to private houses and attempted to extort money from ladies, making himself generally obnoxious in cases where he is met with a refusal to comply with bis requests.

A Bbautiful Painting. — Mr G. G. Green, of Wood bury, New Jersey, U.S.A., is presenting to druggists and others in this country some very fine pictures in oil or his magnificent house and grounds and laboratory at that place Vl r Green is the proprietor of Boschee's German Syrup and Green's August Flower, two very valuable medicines, which are meeting with great faror, the first as a remedy for Pulmonary complaints, and the lat f er for Dyspepsia and disorders of the Liver. These preparations have attained an immense sale solely on their superior merits a»d are sold by all druggists throughout the world. The price is Ihe same for eacTi. 3s 6d per bottle, or sample bottles for 6d. The sample bottles enable sufferers to prove their value at a trifling cost.