BRIGANDAGE IN RUSSIA.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5678, 3 May 1880, Page 2

BRIGANDAGE IN RUSSIA.

(i.OXUON " TEr,KG3l;Vrif.") Tn a recent number of the Golos we find the following s (.range story, copied by that journal from the leading newspaper of Warsaw. A Jewish pedlar, recently travelling on foot through tho Grodno

district, was attacked in a. wood by a footpad who robbed him of all the money he had' about him and then lot him go. Proceeding o.i his way the plundered pedlar met a mounted gendarme^ to whom he related his mishap, and who proceeded at unce to search for the robber, accompanied by tha plundered man. They soon _ came up With the object of their quest, 7 upon whose person the stolen money was found, as well as two clasp-knives and ft pocket-whistle, of which " unconsidered trifles" the gendarme took possession. Having bound the culprit's hands behind him and attached him to the gendarme's saddle by a cord, they started for the nearest village, the pedlar on foot, the police ofheer cm horseback. Presently it occurred to Uia latter that he might as well ascertain what sort of a tone could be produced by the confiscated whistle, which he accordingly put to his lips and blew with untimely vigour. Straightway there appeared upon the scene a horde of armed brigands, who Burrounded the party, and after freeing their comrade from his bonds, attacked his captors. The gendarme 'put spurs t) his horse, broke through the circle of his assailants, and got away with a bullet in his "shoulder. But the unfortunate pedlar, unable to escape, fell a victim to the brutality of the bandits, who hacked his body to pieces and left his mutilated remains on the high road. Preparations are being made by the district authorities to surround the wood in which this band of malefactors has fixed its headquarters. Such enterprises, however, are as rarely Successful in .Russia nowadays as they ] were of yore in the Kingdom of Naples or the Papal States.

HIGH WATEE SLACK. This Day' ... a.m. 2.58; p.m. 3.22