FULL TEXT: St. Petersburg, July 7.—The curious career of a revolutionary Maenad, who interpreted woman's rights in her own peculiar way has just come to a tragic end.
Marie
Semit was a schoolmistress of pronounced radical tendencies in the province of
Smolensk, when her revolutionary fever brought on delirium which became
epidemic. She organized a band of dauntless anarchists.
These
black knights took to highway robbery
under the command of Marie, who was attired in male clothing. Once they
attacked a monastery near Pskow, leaving several of the monks dead. Eight
members of the band were condemned by court martial. Marie Semit has now been
sentenced to twenty years’ penal servitude, but must next week undergo
trial for two other raids and murders in
the province of Smolensk.
[“Woman Leads Anarchists - Band Attacks Monastery, Killing
Several Monks—Prison for Leader.” New-York Tribune (N.Y.), Jul. 17, 1910, p. 4]
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