More Russian Horrors.

Thames Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 10525, 25 April 1907, Page 2

More Russian Horrors.

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(Per United Press Association)

iSfP. PEPEIR^BXJRiG, April 24. The Dounnai Cbmaniiesion report rea/l yesterday idesoribed the mediaeTal tortures, inflicted on political prisoners and suspects in order to' extract coufeeßions. The Commissioners declared that the Governor of Riga with the knowjledge of thle admdmßttatiye authorities, the public prosecutor, amd thle colonial gendarmerie empowered a special cjommititeei to M:ll the aociuseid without trial. Some of the descriptions are umprintaible.

Finger and toe nails, also hair, were torn out while the prisoners were flailed-with! inidia rubber sticks unital the fleahi was fengiLng in strips. Them salt wia® ruWbed in.

Onei man died op. a frendh. At pla,r.k was then laid aot^ the dead body and tw<y policiem€iii:.i«ee=Sia(wed tlierer on uatiill the nian's faaicK Ihrobe.

Aiffcer being tortured the m&iinied" wretdaes were generally shot near the Riga prison. The Governmemb in, reply to an inteirpellationi admitted 1 the trtitihl of most of tihie statementfe, "but saiid thlat tfce allegations against the pufolid proseciutons depiarnilent were exaggernited. They added that Mr Stolypin had ordered am inquiry and the prtwcKjution of the guilty person*. *