SHOCKING CRUELTIES IN RUSSIA.
HOW PRISONERS WERE TREATED
IN POLAND.
The 'TimesV correspondent at St. Petersburg says : "The awful tortures inflicted upon the schoolgirl Spindonova by two officers after her arrest for the assassination of the Vice-Governor of Tamboff have been almost equalled by ttie treatment tjf two prisoners, Vimenty Siecaka and Edmund Kempski, at the hands of the newly-appointed chief of the detective department at Warsaw, M. Gr.un, who has invented new methods of compelling prisoners to confess or sign false statements. Sieczka and Kempski were first clubbed. Sieczka lost his hearing, and has since become subject to, fits. The prisoners were deprived of drink and tantalised by the sight of water, and then plfed with vodka. Afterwards their teeth were knocked out, their hair was torn out, and they were bastinadoed. Finally they were stretched on the floor, while Gran's acolytes jumped from a table on their chests and stomachs. The prisoners signed several statements while in a comatose condition. These facts are vouched for by the l ßusse.'*
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Evening Star, Issue 12882, 3 August 1906, Page 11
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171SHOCKING CRUELTIES IN RUSSIA. Evening Star, Issue 12882, 3 August 1906, Page 11
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