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Title: In the uttermost East, being an account of investigations among the natives and Russian convicts of the island of Sakhalin, with notes of travel in Korea, Siberia, and Manchuria
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Hawes, Charles Henry, 1867-1943
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Publisher: London, Harper
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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fellheadlong down the steps. Patrin was on the top, andcame off practically unhurt, but the prisoner, who hadalready been pounded and mauled, had several ribs broken.All through his term the man had been very recalcitrant,and during the spring of 1901 he seized the revolver ofone of the soldiers on duty and shot him. He made noattempt to escape, but standing calmly there, said, I didnot want to shoot him ; it was Patrin I wanted. Andthen, pointing the weapon once more, shot himself in theforehead. Among the hundreds of undoubted villains on theisland there are naturally some of an extremely refractorytype, but at the same time there are several of the prisonerswho would be reckoned innocent in England. One of thislatter class was a very holy old man, of wide reading, whohad developed views after the type of Count Tolstoys.His home was in South Russia, and there he began toteach the doctrine of non-resistance. The authorities im-mediately pounced upon, arrested him for creating a riot,
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I ill DARK CELLS (on CACHOTS NOIRS ), ALEXANDROVSK PRISON. \To face page 365. STORIES OF PRISONERS 365 and sentenced him to eight years hard labour. Thus hefound himself in prison at Alexandrovsk with the mostabandoned criminals. A saintly, dignified old man, a littleeccentric perhaps, he always refused to shake hands, evenwith a barm, and with a courteous gesture of excuse wouldhold up his right hand in blessing. A fellow-prisoner ofhis said that he had never known him do a wrong orunkind act ; and yet he had been condemned by Patrinmore than once to chains and the dark cell. The accom-panying picture is an illustration of one of the dark cellsin the Alexandrovsk prison. It was described to me byone who had often to pass it, as absolutely without anyaccommodation, plank-bed or parasha, filthy and mal-odorous beyond conception. It is my impression that there is less of this sentencingof religionists to hard labour to-day than there used to be.I say my impression, for I cannot appeal t

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