MIRACLE WORKER KILLED.
j RUSSIAN PEASANT MONK. WHO INFLUENCED THE CZAR. STABBED BY A WOMAN. (Received 11.10 a.m.) ST. TETERSBI-RG, July 13. A woman shadowed the monk Ras- | pntin for a fortnight aud fatally stabbed * I him in the village of Pokrorskj\ Tobolsk.! Rasputin. an illiterate ' Siberian I peasant, pained great influence over the I Czar as a miracle worker. [ }\c rose to power in Court circles, audi became tlic agent of various political ' cliques. ! lie excrcir-od an influence in the Men-! i del Boiliss case. j The famous monk lliodor was imprisoned for thrashing and denouncing Ras-1 put ill as a false prophet. j
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Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 166, 14 July 1914, Page 5
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