ESCAPE FROM SIBERIA-
OLD WOMAN RECAPTURED.
By Telegraph— Association—
(Received December 11, 12.5 a.m.) St. Petersburg, December 10. An aged woman of over 70, named Catherine Brcshkovskaya, and known as the grandmother of the Revolution, attempted to escape from Kircnsk in Siberia, where she was exiled in 1910. The police found her ia a carriage at Yakutsk disguised as a man. She has preached revolution since 1874, when she was first arrested and exiled to Siberia. She has escaped and been rearrested several times.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15480, 11 December 1913, Page 7
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