THE RUSSIAN TERROR.

Otago Witness, Issue 2804, 11 December 1907, Page 27

THE RUSSIAN TERROR.

- WOMAN KILLS TWO ROBBERS. HER HUSBAND MURDERED. ALLEGED REGICIDAL PLOT. FIFTY-FOUR PERSONS ON TRIAL. >ST. PETERSBURG, Decanter 3. """•"A^man and a woman {dressed am snch) requested shelter _at a farm in Sosnowioe (Poland). The. farmer drove the man at night to tie village to fetch a doctor for ihe supposed -woman, and on the way the man .killed and robbed the farmer. *" ', Meanwhile the woman, who was a disguised man, tried to rob the farmer's wife. She, pretending 'to yield, gave him her valuables, and while the robber was inspecting them killed him with an axe. When the other robber returned sh« killed him while he was entering the door. -Twenty sappers at Vladivostock were sentenced to be shot for participating in the October mutiny. The others were sentenced t£ penat servitude. 4 The Czar, in acknowledging the Duma's Address, stated "that be willingly believed the sentiments expressed therein, and he would await their 'productive work. December 4. - A woman flung a bomb at the Gover-nor-general while driving in the streets of Moscow. The, horees were kilkd and the coachman injured, but the Governor escaped injury. The woman was severely hurt, and is now dying. December 6. The trial of 37 Social Democrat members of the Second Duma and of 17 soldiercivilians on a charge of complicity _in the alleged military i«gicidal plot has "begun -here. * s - - . • A public hearing was refused, and thereupon the' accused aeked to be sent back ,to prison, and instructed their counsel to withdraw. ' - The prosecution' then proceeded in their /absence. i. The party issued a statement that the accusation was a baseles pretext to justify Ihe alteration in the electoral laws. One hundred thousand workmen and students in St. Petersburg and Moscow struck in sympathy with the accused.