LYNCHING IN RUSSIA.
An Odessa correspondent describes how whilst a police inspector and two constables were conveying a murderer named Dudnik from fcoviboug to Kherson the party were waylaid by a crowd of some 300 infuriated peasants, including a number of women and children, who, despite the most energetic resistance of his guards, seized the prisoner and beat him to death in a savage manner ,with cudgels and stones. Dudnik appears to have deserved his fate. Ho was the leader of a notorious band of highwaymen numbering, it is Baid, twenty-three desperadoes. His last crime, committed a few weeks ago, brought the record of hie murders up to thirteen, and to this wholesale indictment Dudnik had recently confessed. Thirty-five persons concerned in the lynchl ing have been arrested and lodged in prison at Kherson. It is quite improbable, howj ever, that any of the accused will be severely dealt with. *
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Evening Star, Issue 10392, 13 August 1897, Page 1
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