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The Popular Idea

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Parent Issue
Day
15
Month
June
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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There is a popular idea that the was tes of Siberia are peopled with men ho have been unjustly exiled f rom Eussia, and that the criminal is really as difficult to find as the traditional needie in the bunch of hay, says TitBits. Facts, however, do not substantiate this theory any more than they do the large majority of popular impressions. A great sensation was created two or three years ago by the finding of seven IJussian exiles or prisoners, who had u:ade their escape from Siberia They were in. an open boat in the Paciiic, and were taken to San Francisco, where they became tflie objects of popular commiseration, as well as the text for of the Russian methods oï dealing1 with politica! offenders. The Californians, ever ready with sympathy, gave them clothes and f ound them work to do. It now appears that the interval that has Olapsed between their arrival m Sani Francisco aud now every one of them. has been punished by the law of the land. The last of the party has just been senteijced to 21 years' imprisonment for burglary, while one of his comrades only a short time ago was hanged for two murders which he had committed. Inn'estigations which have been made show that every one of these men had been sent to Siberia for reasons which would have earned him a carresponding period of exile from the haunts of his i'ellowmen if not absolute deportaition fiom the country in any other part of the world.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Courier