OFFICIAL BUTCHERY.
The Kieff correspondent of a St, Petersburg journal gives the following account ot the outbreak amongst the political prisoners :—The persons under arrest in Kieff prison resolved some time ago to tunnel under the walls and escape. The scheme was betrayed by one of the conspirators, and the authors ties allowed the prisoners to continue the excavations, and when the tunnel was completed, and the prisoners had entered it one after another, intending to come up through the opening beyond the prison precincts, soldiers, previously posted at the opening shot the escaping prisoners as they came up, and when the bulk of the prisoners, terrifiedVby the noise of the bring, stopped mained in the tunnel, the soldiers were sent in to tire behind, and the unfortunate wretches caught between two fires, were all shot down. The proceeding seemed to give the officials much amusement, and the Director of the Kieff prison was praised and decorated for having acted with such cleverness and decision. The correspondent declares that out of 500 prisoners detained in the prison 200 died within .our months.
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Kumara Times, Issue 847, 18 June 1879, Page 2
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