HISTORY REPEATED.

Manawatu Herald, 23 August 1881, Page 3

HISTORY REPEATED.

+ Horrible incidents (says a Home paper) have a grim knack of repeating themselves ia Uiusia. The painful detail of Jeliabcff's execution at St Petersburg can hardly fail to call For continuation of reading matter see fourth page.

to round the ghastly tra^o.iy wliuh i w.s enaeffa iirßhm"oity shortly after ! tha ascension of Czar Nicholas to I the Kussian thixine Four leaders of the abortive insunvciion which I i\>ke out upon that occasion, and .was mainly quelled by the Kmperu's heroic conduct, were subsequently hanged, (mo of them, siiai.g to say. was the grandfather of Procureiw. Muruvieff who condurfr d the State prscjution against the Nilii-li>t-v implicated iv iho assassination of Alexander 11. As in the ca^e of Jeliabufl' the other day, the rope to which Kuravieff was suspended broke "when "the executioner cast him from the ladder, and the unfortunate man fell hoavily t> the ground, breaking his leg. is he was beinjr lifted towards the gallows, to which a fresh ■ rope had been hastily fitied and noosed for his second suspension. Relejeff, another of the doomed insurrectionists/ therb 1 awaiting his turn to be strangled, exclaimed in a loud voice, heard by many of the horrified spectators, " What, can be expected of a State in which even the hangman dues not Irtuiw his business?" These bitter and ominous words weie his last. A few seconds later his lifeless corpse was swinginir by that of the wrenched Muravieff, whoso dreadful death scene has so recently been reproduced,, vith Jeluiboff far its tortured hero, by merciless and bnnglingfunctionaiiesof Kussian jus 1 ice.