LYNCH LAW IN RUSSIA.
SUSPECTED ItEVOLUTIOiNAIiUDS UL'IiXT ALIVK St. Petersburg, September 1. Accounts are constantly reaching St. Petersburg of terrible cases of lynch law executed by peasants on the dupes of revolutionary agitators. The most inhuman occurrence hitherto is reported from Vosdirgcnsky, a village in the district of Makarieir. The huts of two peasants named Dourassolf and Ketchkin burst into llames simultaneously, and the lire spread to the neighboring dwellings, which were also consumed. The furious villagers accused the two peasants of incendiarism at the instance of revolutionary agitators. seized and bound them, and threw them into the llames. A rush was then made to the house of the local forest guard. There a young apprentice was found and cantured. After horrible maltreatment, he was dragged to the scene of the fire and thrown on a heap of burning straw. Four times he succeeded in escaping, screaming, from the flames. Then he was strangled, and his body burned to cinders.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 26 October 1907, Page 4
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160LYNCH LAW IN RUSSIA. Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 26 October 1907, Page 4
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