THE TSAR.
ANOTHER ALLEGED PLOT. ; BY TEuEGRAPII—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. • St. Petersburg )J; Octobor 22: ■ Dogs caused the discovery of ■ two men digging a tunnel near tho railway in the vicinity of Tsarskoe Solo, the rosidenco >of tho Tsar.'' ■ ' :,,:; Tho ltion wore nrrcsted. ';:■ '.■;■'
The last Tsarkoe'Selo plot was'brought to light through a Cossack .member of tho Tsar's bodyguard, who played a double game,' ; nhd, while' accepting infernal machines , .'from- the conspirators (who directed. him to pluco them in the Tsar's bed-chamber), also informed his superior;). At Hio trial Lieutenant "Nikitenko and'-two others 'were iioiitenced to. be-ihanged. 'L'hreo others, including a . woman, ,wcro sonteuced lo eight, and another to fouv,".yt>ars' imprisonment for being connected-wilh ■'the plot; whilfl four women and a m.in wore sentenced to lifo-long exile in Siberia. Six persons were acquitted. :: •
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 25, 24 October 1907, Page 5
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130THE TSAR. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 25, 24 October 1907, Page 5
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