CURIOUS RUSSIAN TRAGEDY.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8832, 7 June 1907, Page 4

CURIOUS RUSSIAN TRAGEDY.

A young woman named Dorofleff, who had been imprisoned iu tho St. Peter and St. Paul Fortress, St. Petersburg, for six mouths without trial, committed suicide by strangling herself with her hair. She tied her hair round her neck, and, fastening the end of the plait to the foot of tho bed, leaned back till death released her. She was a young married woman, barely 23 yfears of ago, who came to St. Petersburg with her husbaud in the spring of last year. They disappeared after the successful attack made by the social revolutionaries at the comer of tho Catherine Canal on a carriage conveying several thousand pounds from tho port of St. Petersburg to the branch treasury iu 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 iu. A few men were left iu permanent ambush, aud when, two days"latcr,3the husband returned alone, he was arrested. Two days later he was executed in accordance with the verdict of a field court-martial. The woman Dorofleff 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 conveyed to her on the eve of her suicide. She was buried secretly at night time iu tlie Preobajensky cemetery, where are the graves of many of those who fell during the shooting on “Red Sunday. ’ ’ Who she was aud who her husbaud was remains a mystery. Those whojknewjher during her stay in St. Petersburg describe her as an exceptionally beantiful and attractive woman of superior intelligence and education.