RUSSIAN INTERNAL AFFAIRS
•B* EIECTRIC TELEGRAPH —COI'YRIOUT ] [per pni:ss association.] A BLOOD-TIIIKSTX ROBBER V. SHOCKING TALES OF TORTURE. ST. PETERSBURG, March 2. Two more of the Helsillgfors robbers have been arrested at Tammerfors. While being searched one drew a revolver and killed three police and wounded two onlookers and a police ,flicial. The robber then barricaded himself in an adjacent house and harangued the people from the window, appealing f. r help on ihe ground that he was a Social Democrat. Nine persons were wounded before the robber was re-arrested, which was done with the aid of the fire brigade. Terrible stories come from St. IV!-cr.-burg <■! the political torture in tho prisons. In many instances girls were the victims, lighted! cigarretes
being applied to Iheii naked bodies and brutal Hogging indulged in. It is estimated thai 68.000 workmen will be permitted to vole at the DouIII.". elect ions. A bank at KielT has failed for E 750.000 sterling'.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 3 March 1906, Page 3
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