M. PLEHVE'S DEATH

Evening Star, Issue 12261, 30 July 1904, Page 7

M. PLEHVE'S DEATH

ARREST OP THE ASSASSIN.

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, ST. PETERSBURG, July 29. The assassin, who has been arrested, is a man about thirty years old. He is supposed to bo a Polish Nihilist. He was himself dangerously wounded in the stomach by the explosion, and vainly tried to commit suicide with a revolver when arrested by a detective who was cycling behind M. rielwe’e carriage. He, refuses to give his name. Tho bomb exploded under tho carriage. 31. Plehvc’s head was nearly severed. The face was terribly disfigured. Splinters from the carriage were driven into tho body. Deceased Was reading a paper at tho moment he was killed. His portfolio was saturated with blood. The bomb consisted of a small tin box filled with explosives and scraps of metal. A second bomb was found in the assassin's pocket. Twenty persons were injured, including some women and one officer. A mujik witnessing tho assassination heard the assassin exclaim: “This is nothing compared to what follows. lam not the only one.’’ A WIDESPREAD PLOT, INTENDED VICTIMS. A POPULAR CRIME.

ST. PETERSBURG, July 29. A preliminary examination of the a.ssassin placed the police in possession of a. Nihilist plot to murder the Czar, M. Pobiedonostzeff (Procurator of tho Holy Synod), Prince Obolenski (announced as Bobrifcoff’s successor os Governor of Finland), M. Bezobrazofi (a personal friend of the Czar, and influential in promoting the Russian policy of expansion in the Far East), and many other bureaucrats. There are many indications that the crime is popular in Russia, owing to 31. Plehve’s brutal tyranny. The Czar exclaimed when he heard the news: “Ho was my friend and most valued counsellor. ’ The Czar bus announced his intention to attend the funeral. Four days ago the detectives discovered a plot against. M. Plehve, and thought that they had arrested all tho ringleaders. A supposed accomplice in the adjoining hotel made a sign to the assassin when to 3 throw the bomb. “AN ACT OF JUSTICE.” THE ASSASSIN’S PROMISE. EUROPE APATHETIC. NO SURPRISE AT THE MINISTER'S FATE. ST. PETERSBURG, July 29. • (Received July 30, at 9.10 a.m.) 31. Piehve’s assassin when arrested said; “ I have performed an act of justice. If tho Government persevere in the same policy 31. Plchvo’s successor will share the sumo fate." The official account states that the assassin threw only one bomb. Nine passers-by wore slightly injured. Captain Zinezinski, of the Imperial Guard, who was driving beliind, was severely injured. Tito assassin received a few wounds, hut they were not dangerous. Eight persons were arrested, but six of them wero subsequently released.

LONDON, July 29. The German, Austrian, and French newspapers contain no word ot regret, and some of them declare that the Minister’s fate is not surprising, and that it was deserved. PLEHVE’S LAST ACT. DEPRIVES SCO JEW’S OF EMPLOYMENT. ST. PETERSBURG. July 29, M. Plchve’s last administrative acts were the suppression of four Hebrew newspapers in St. Petersburg, throwing 300 Jews out of work, and the expulsion of all unemployed Jews from St. Petersburg.