CAPITAL PUNISHMENTS
TOLSTOY'S LAST ARTICLE. . (By Telegraph—Press Association-Oopyrieht. St. Petersburg, November 27. .In the lato Count Tolstoy's last article, written in.tho monastery in which ■ he took refuge,'tho writer declared that ; the only purposo of capital punishment Fas to increase tho hangman's -wages. • Its horrors /were useless as a deterrent : from crime. ' ' '. The only remedy was to instil: into ' men's minds a knowledge of their des- ; tiny, and the need of justifying their -~' lots. 'DEMONSTRATIONS AND ARRESTS. (Rcc. November 28, 10.5 p.m.-) St. Petersburg, November 28. Thirteen members of the Central Trades Union's Coramittco have been, arrested for attempting to. organise a demonstration against capital punishment. At Moscow tho Cossacks dispersed a jtudents' demonstration against the death penalty. They made 181 arrests, the prisoners including GO . girls.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 986, 29 November 1910, Page 5
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