TWENTY EIGHT YEARS IN SIBERIA.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXVI, Issue 74, 31 March 1892, Page 2

TWENTY EIGHT YEARS IN SIBERIA.

-0 Tho Daily News Bsrlin correspondent telegraphs: - 'The harrowing description of tha sad state o! the prisoners in Siberia, given by Mr Kennan, are amply confirmed by a Russian named Jaoob KoteD, who haa escaped from Bin bona, and is now in Breslau, In the year 1863 Koten, nineteen years of age,took part iv the Polish Inßurreotion, and in a skirmish near hia native place he received a severe gun-shot wound in the left foot, and was taken prisoner by the Rus* sians. He was therefore transported to Vilna, and condemned by General Mutavieffi to exile for life in Siberia, At Tomsk ho joined a gang of exiles aud marohed ou foot for nearly eight months through the endless ateppea via Krasnoyarsk (where the exiles were photo* graphed), Irkutsk and Jakutsk to Tarbogotai, a small settlement culms, # as it is called in Russian, Having made three attempts to escape he worked hard to save a, sum of money in order then to try hia hard luok again. In the spring of tha year 1888, the exile had saved about 4,000 roubles, the fruit of his 26 ye«s' work as a hunter, and now he again thought of escaping. Oa a dark night he left Turbogotai, went from one culms to the other, far from high roads. After a dangerous and fearful journey of several months, whioh cost him nearly the whole of his fortuue, and after crossing the Ural and gaming Ekatorineuburg and St. Petersburg, he at last reached Stookhoim, via Helsingfors, But finding no assistance any where, he went to Copenhagen, .Lubeofc, Hamburg, • Berlin, and from there to Paris. Here his money ran short, and the Frenoh Government sent him across the Belgian frontier to Holland. He could not remain thero either, but was escorted to the, German frontier, after marohes of many long, weeks,