Russia. THE CZAR EXERCISES CLEMENCY IN NINETEEN CASES.
The " OfKcial Messenger announces that Wenty-one persons wcmj tried a St. Petersburg between the Bth and nth of the prebont moiiLh on the charge of being active memb i.s of the secret society called " Will of the People,"' and of complicity in several murdois, including tnat or Chief of Police, Colonel Sudeik, and participation in a number of robberies and dynamite outrages. Three of the prisoners were acquitted and all the others sentenced to death. The death sentences were, however, commuted in the cnbe=3 of two prisoners to exile in Siberia, and, in those • of the otheib, to imprisonment with hard labour.
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Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 213, 30 July 1887, Page 4
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110Russia. THE CZAR EXERCISES CLEMENCY IN NINETEEN CASES. Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 213, 30 July 1887, Page 4
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