Assassination of a Russian Minister.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7902, 30 July 1904, Page 7

Assassination of a Russian Minister.

I ——. ;;. A Horrible Crime. | (Per Press Association—Copyright.} ! r ST. PETERSBURG, July 29, The assassin is thirty years of a'g-e and is supposed to be it ■Polish-Nihil-ist. He ' himself was dangerously wounded in the stomach by the explosion, and Vainly tried to commit suicide with a revolver when arrested by ai ■detective, who was cycling, behind M. PloWs carriage. He still refuses to give his name. The bomb exploded under the carriage. ..-'•• 11. Plehvc's head was nearly sevei* ed, and his face was terribly ■ disfigured. Splinters of the carriages were driven- into his body. M. Plehve was reading a j>aper at the moment he w a s killed, and "the portfolio' is saturated wi.tih 'blood. The bomb consisted of a small tin box, tilled with explosives 'and scraps of metal. A second bomb was found in the assassin's pocket. • Twenty persons were injured1, inj eluding- some, women and one ofI liccr, | _A jtfnjik, who WTtnesfcx-d the assay- • sination, heard the assassin; exclaim: • " This is nothing- compared withj what follows. I am not the only ' one I" ' •''..■'■ . ■■■■■• .-■ " LATER. A preliminary examination of .M. | Plchvq's assassin has ■placed, 'the ■ police, in possession "of a Nihilist plot sto mm-der thoOzar ami MM-. Pobiledjonatzetf, Obolonski,,.;Bezabrazofil and I many other bureaucrats.- -..-' '.v-4 There are many indications -that the crirno is popular in. Riissia.'- owing to M. Plehvc's brutality aii'd tyranny^ r The Czar exclaimed, when he hoard of the news oE M. Plehve's murder: ;'" Be-was my. fnend and most valued ', councillor.';' . I The Czar 'intends to attend- the funeral. Some accounts say. .that the assassin threw two bombs and kept' a third'in his .pocket. ■'. Four days ago detectives discovered a, plot against ■M. Plchvo. - and ; thought'they had arrested all ' the ringleaders. . . '„■ It is supposed an -accomplice, in .an .• adjoining; .hotel, made a sigm wlicn to thrbw the bomb. ' ;-