A DASTARDLY OUTRAGE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14002, 7 September 1907, Page 9

A DASTARDLY OUTRAGE

ATTEMPT TO WRECK A TRAIN. EIGHT PEOPLE INJURED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, BERLIN, September 5. A gang of miscreants loosened the rails and wrecked a train near Berlin, imagining the Grand Duke Nicholas of Russia was travelling to the manoeuvres. Eight pas- ■ senders were injured. - In February iast an effort was made to kill tljo Grand Duke Nicholas Nicolaicvitch,, a. daring . attempt being made to blow np tho train convoying him from Tsarskoo Selo to ( St. Petersburg. About 8 p.m., just before the train was leaving St. Petersburg. the > conductor belonging to tho Imperial station at St. Petersburg saw a man depositing a box on tho line. He tried to arrest him, but the man, who woro -tho uniform of the Emperor's railway battalion, escaped through a wicketgate in tho wall which encloses the Imperial lino and jumped into' a sleigh waiting outside. The man had opened tho wickot with a false key. Pursuit wa6 vain. 'Tho Grand Duke's train was stopped. Tho box was found to oontain 3£lb of fulminate of mercury and completo detonating (ipplianocs. It would have wrecked tho train and partly demolished the Imperial station. Tho police were said to ha.vo obtained information that tho terrorists had planned c wholesale assassination of high officials by means of disguises.