title: Siberian Prison
author: E. v. Enzmann
description: Ernst v Enzmann was born in Austria, one of six siblings, and became a kindergarten and primary school teacher. He was drafted into Franz Josef's army for combat in Serbia, then the eastern Russian front. Taken in 1917 in the Brusilov offensive, he later escaped to Peking, China were he met his wife, a medical missionary from Bath, Maine, USA. Departing impossible China due to Japan's Indus war, also fleeing madhouse Europe, they settled in Cambridge, MA where he gained a PhD at Harvard.
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  The prison sprawled on the flat Chinese
  
  
  plain. Even at a distance it seemed large, a spread-out mass of gray
  buildings.
  
  
  As the truck carried him with eight other white men and four Chinese
  “landlords”
  
  
  along the deep ruts that made up the road, Seal Ruxton kept glancing at the
  
  
  massive penitentiary ahead.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The first shock of
  
  
  being sentenced to death was over. He had been unlucky, he realized, to have
  
  
  fallen into the hands of these angry orientals at a time when they were
  
  
  planning another experiment. It was too soon to decide what he should do.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  He held onto the
  
  
  side of the small truck, bal