CURIOUS RUSSIAN TRAGEDY.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2146, 31 July 1907, Page 4

CURIOUS RUSSIAN TRAGEDY.

A young woman named Doroficff, who had been imprisoned in the St. Rotor and St. Paul Fortress, St. 'Petersburg, for six months without trial, committed suicide by strangling herself with her hair. She tied her hair round her neck, and. fastening the end of tho plat to flic foot of the bed, loaned back till death released her.

Sho was a young married woman, barely 22 years of age, who camo to St. Petersburg with her husband in the spring of last year. They disappeared after the successful attack made by the social revolutionaries at the corner of the Catherine Canal on a carriage conveying several thousand pounds from the port of St. Petersburg to the branch treasury at Kasuatcheiskaya street in October last year.

When the police made a descent on their apartment they found the doors locked, and had to force their way in. A few men were left in permanent ambush, and when, two days later, tho husband returned alone, ho was arrested. Two days later ho was executed in accordance with tho verdict of a. field court-martial. The woman Dorofieff was arrested on the same premises the day after her husband had fallen into the hands of the police. The news of her husband’s death, it is said, was only eouveyed to her oil the eve of her suioido.

Sho was buried secretly at night time in tho Preobajens'ky cemetery, where aro the graves of many of those who fell during the shooting on “Rod Sunday.” Who she was and who her husband was remains a mystery.

Those who know her during her stay in St. Petersburg describe her as an exceptionally beautiful and attractive woman of superior intelligence and education.