Q. “Did Tsaryna aid you to commit the crime?” R. “I cannot tell, I only remember that he cried out. Some one is coming! a bark, a bark!” Q. “And what did you do then?” R. “I was furious, desperate, distracted. When the day dawned, I saw the shores, the river, but I saw neither the cornet, nor the village of Trehmiria. I wished to throw myself into the water, but had not sufficient energy, and suffered myself to be persuaded to live, and seek my safety in flight.” Q. “When you arrived at Rybinsk, how did you manage to sell your cargo so quickly?” R. “I knew Jerome Smilabej, and to him I confided my crime. He consented to save us, provided we abandoned the cargo to him, and he promised to arrange every thing for us, and conduct us to a place of safety.” Q. “Why didst thou attack me?” R. “I had promised the Armenian in case of unforeseen danger to defend his life as my own. The moment of danger had come, and I fulfilled my promise.” Q. “Thou sayest that Tsaryna urged thee to commit crime, and aided thee to execute it—that the Armenian protected criminals, and appropriated to himself wealth which did not belong to him?” R. “I neither denounce nor accuse any one. I have spoken the truth. I seek not to deny my crime nor to cast the consequences upon others. I am a great criminal!” EXAMINATION OF PIERRE ALEXIECIVITCH TSARYNA, SON OF A CITIZEN OF KOSTROMA. He is thirty-two years of age; entered the military service in 1828 as a recruit in the lancers of Archanguelk. He denies any participation in the crime. Q. “Yet you were the first to tell the quarter-master Hortinja that a great intimacy existed between the Cornet Semenov and the girl Nadiejda.” R. “I was joking when I said Semenov and Nadiejda were too intimate. The quarter-master was wicked as the devil; he pounded our very bones with the baton. I revenged myself by contradicting his ridiculous passion for a girl young enough to be his grand-daughter.” Q. “Why did you rejoin Hortinja at Kostroma?” R. “I met him there by chance.” Q. “And why did you choose to return at the time that Semenov was going to Rybinsk?” R. “In order to save my money.” Q. “Why did you give to the servant of Semenov, and to the first sailor, a poison, which produced cholic and vomiting?” R. “They were very fond of brandy—they were like a cask without bottom; to play them a trick I put snuff into the liquor: is it my fault they have such delicate stomachs?” Q. “Why did you provoke Hortinja to assassinate the cornet?” R. “I did not. The quarter-master is subject to visions, he dreams so many other things, that he may have dreamed that also.” Q. “Why, then, did you not defend him?” R. “The cornet was in citizen’s dress, the quarter-master in uniform, and I am a soldier.” Q. “What do you mean by that?” R. “That the soldier must respect the uniform more than the citizen’s dress.” Q. “Why did you throw the cornet into the water?”