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Uneasy About Hiazintoff

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Day
20
Month
July
Year
1894
Copyright
Public Domain
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Private advices froin St. Petersburg say that great uneasiness prevails in court circles there over the escape of the yonng man Hiazintoff, who a couple of months ago attempted to kill Privy Counselor Pobyedonoszeff. When in prison, Hiaziutoff's demeanor was so strange that he was sent to an asylum for the insane and there kept under observation night and day in special cara On June 27 he pleaded that the fcerribly hot weather was killing him, and in consequence he was for the first time allowed to take exercise in the asylum grounds with the other inrnates. On the same afternoon he managed to escape, evidently with the connivance of somebody within the asylum, and nothing has since been heard of him. The uneasiness referred to is due to the belief that Hiazintoff will most certainly be heard from sooner or later in oonnection with some desperate deed. He is a militant nihilist, imbued with a fanatical belief in the necessity for shedding the blood of tyrants who stand in the way of the regeneration of his country, and he is utterly reckless of his own life. The pĆ³lice are confident that he will not attempt to leave Russia and are equally certain that he will not long

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