WOMAN REVOLUTIONARY.
CURIOUS RUSSIAN CASE. Tin; curious career of a revolutionary Manad, who interpreted woman's rights in her own peculiar way, has just come to a tragic, end. Marie Semi I. was a. schoolmistress of pronounced radical tendencies in tlie_ province of Smolensk, when het revolutionary fever brought on a. delirium which became epidemical'. Siie organised a band of dauntless anarchists. These black i-'nights took to highway robberv under the command of .Marie, who was attired in male clothing. Once thev attacked u monastery near f'skow, leavin r several of the monks dead. Eight members of the band were, condemned hv a court-martial. Mario Semit has now been sentenced to 20 years' nenal servitude, but must undergo trial for two other raids uud murders in the province of Smolensk.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14453, 20 August 1910, Page 2 (Supplement)
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