“You can’t expect justice from them,” he replied. However he promised to talk with a lawyer about the case.
He said that about ten o’clock in the morning he was told to go to the police-station. There they told him to go to the monastery of the Alexander Nevski. He called for a girl friend of his sister’s to go along with him. They were hardly given time to take leave of his sister. He came about ten minutes before the interment. There was an order from the chief of police—“to hurry with the funeral.” At the funeral was a police captain, a sergeant, a gendarme, the brother, and the girl’s friend.
We brought to the notice of the procuror:
1. That the administration knew for a long time about the existence of the telephone and had never objected. And when we disobeyed a rule of the administration, we were always punished. As, for instance, for singing we were deprived of seeing visitors and receiving things from them.
2. That at the time of the shooting she was sitting still, which gave the soldier an opportunity to make a good shot.
3. That he shot into a crowded room, and it was a miracle that others were not killed also.
To the last statement the procuror interposed: “What might have happened has no importance.” Altogether he was impossible....
To our demand to give a definite promise that the appointment with the brother would be given he answered prudently: “If nothing particular will interfere.”
“That means”—
“That means if he won’t be arrested before. We are all in the hands of God.”