The Czar's Assassins.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3908, 8 July 1881, Page 2

The Czar's Assassins.

A writer in the Standard gives the following graphic description of the opening scene: —Suddenly the prisoners' door opens, and every face is turned (hat way. The accused enter in single file; I each preceded by a gens d'arme with a naked sword, and they step into the dock. First comes Eeeaakotf, a beardless youth, of erect figure, sandy hair, and illfeatured, with small eyes, arid a sullen mouth, which all his efforts cannot keep from twitching. He is followed by Michaeloff—tall defiant, brutal. The next is Hesse Heifman, a Jewess of • pronounced type—short, dark,- and with no pretensions to good looks, or to intelligence. To her succeeds; Keebaltchitch, the " Technic," a somewhat dirty-looking individual, grey-headed, and with his hair falling orer|lhif forehead. One could well fancy'such an one working in a lockcd-up-room, with a revolver by his side, preparing hi§ diabolical engines. Sophie Perdffakaya sits beside him. Contrary to the report about this young lady, she is not pretty, and is quite the type of the female Nihilist. She has a high, matsire forehead, straight hair, which is now turned up, a firm mouth, and a pointed chin. SheliabofF, who is the last to enter, attracts much attention by his fine, tall figure, his handsome dark brown beardyphis strongly-marked but regular .features, high forehead, bright eye, and generally proud, determined air. The accused raises his eyes to the wall above, where, draped in black, hangs a full-length portrait of the murdered Emperor, who seems to look down aadly. upon, his assassins, and upon all the paraphernalia of law, justice, and military ppwer which were unable to protect him when in life.