Transcriber’s Note: This version of the text cannot represent certain typographical effects. Italics are delimited with the ‘_’ character as _italic_. The position of illustrations have been adjusted slightly to avoid falling in mid-paragraph. Please see the transcriber’s note at the end of this text regarding the few textual issues encountered during its preparation. The History and Romance of Crime FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE PRESENT DAY [Illustration] THE GROLIER SOCIETY LONDON [Illustration: _Young Girl Revolutionist Condemned to the Scaffold_ ] So severe was the Russian government in the measures adopted to repress the revolutionists that mere school-girls were exiled, imprisoned or executed. Many well-born girls made it their chief aim to help the peasants, enduring the privations and hardships of the labouring classes. Madame Vera Phillipova, a young woman of great beauty, was long the most popular person in the revolutionary movement. She became identified with the conspiracy of “the Fourteen,” and was thrown into the Schlüsselburg for the term of her natural life. ~Russian Prisons~ ST. PETER AND ST. PAUL THE SCHLÜSSELBURG THE OSTROG AT OMSK THE STORY OF SIBERIAN EXILE TIUMEN, TOMSK, SAGHALIEN _by_ MAJOR ARTHUR GRIFFITHS _Late Inspector of Prisons in Great Britain_ _Author of “The Mysteries of Police and Crime,” “Fifty Years of Public Service,” etc._ [Illustration] THE GROLIER SOCIETY ------------------ EDITION NATIONALE Limited to one thousand registered and numbered sets. NUMBER 307. ------------------ INTRODUCTION