MURDER OF AN ENGLISHMAN IN RUSSIA.

Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 66, 14 September 1895, Page 1 (Supplement)

MURDER OF AN ENGLISHMAN IN RUSSIA.

A Moscow correspondent states that twenty of the ringleaders who took part in the murder of the English mill director Crawshaw at Ivanofna will be hanged or shot, in order to strike awe into the working classes, and to prevent a repetition in future. The deceased English director was born in Russia, and is said to have been a severe master. He was so unpopular among the men that they actually tore him limb from limb, while the wives of the workmen are said to have acted in a still more horrible manner to the corpse. As a rule, English directors are more popular in Russia than those of any other nationality ; but the deceased seems to have been an exception. The news that the director had sent for the military Soems to have exasperated the workmen, for on the last occasion the troops had been in the district a serious engagement took place, in which thirty persons — mostly working men — were killed. The introduction of foreign ideas among the Russian factory population, in conjunction with long hours and the existing system of fining, which leaves hardly any wage over, is commencing to create a very dangerous spirit among the semieducated factory people. It is a significant fact that the Novoe Vremya has latterly commenced to publish a series of articles advocating shorter hours in all the Russian mills and factories.