SENSATIONAL ESCAPE.
POLITICAL PRISONERS. PURSUED BY SOLDIERS. EIGHT OF THE FUGITIVES KILLED. By Telegraph.—Pres% Association.— Copyright. (Received April 17, 10.43 p.m.) London, April 16. Reuters St. Petersburg correspondent states that 1 1 political prisoners, who had been imprisoned at Penza, the capital of the province of that name, in East Russia, after killing two warders and wounding a third, escaped by means of the roof, through a hole in the ceiling of their cell. While they were lowering themselves by ropes made of their bedclothes a warder shot one of them. The others flung a powerful bomb, and succeeded in reaching open country. The guards hotly pursued them, and killed seven of the fugitives. Three escaped. A TOBOLSK INCIDENT. THIRTEEN SENTENCED TO DEATH. (Received April 18, 12.42 a.m.) St. Petersburg, April 17. Thirteen prisoners at Tobolsk have been sentenced to death for mutinying and killing a warder.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13727, 18 April 1908, Page 5
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