The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 21, 1899, Page 17

SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, MAY 21, 1899. 1 ED FROM ORRORS OF A EN GHAL} /—\’;—‘:’—;—— “SA ORGING MANACLES ON A WOMAN PRISONER . This Nihilist Has Just Reached SAN FRANCISCO. Pursued Three Years by Siberian Police. ¥ m PRISONER. IN SSULITARY CONFINEMENT AT BREAKFAST. DURIAL OF & PRISONER- BY FELI®W CONV(CTS RESTOR\NS A PRISONER TO CONSCIOUSNESS AFTER BEING S R y yThese Photographs Were Taken by the Escaped Nihilist While Working as an Assistant Jailer in the Prison on the Convict Island of Saghalien in Northeastern Siberia In December, 1889, Nicholas Ivanhoe, then a very young man, went to the nihilist penal colony of Saghalien to help his convict father to escape, if possible. By a fortunate chain of circumstances he was able to get into the prison as assistant jaller. Then he learned that his fg[hey}'lfhud been killed in a mine accident. As a nihilist he then determined to learn all the inside workings of the prison and communicate them to his fellows. With this end in view he took photographs of the punishments of the convict nihilists and other scenes of everyday life. One of his communications to St. Petersburg nihilists was intercepted by the authorities. Ivanhoe was warned of his approaching arrest by a fellow nihilist and was able to escape to the mountains. That was in 1896. For several years, in all sorts of disguises, he worked his way toward the Pacific coast, eontinually. on guard to avoid the vigilance of the Siberian police, He had countless hairbread es, but at last he reached rt in Korea and from there he sailed for Nagasakl, Ji has just arriyed in San Franclsco and is belng cared for by the nihilist colony here. . 3 235 i ity ) s o S e