STABBED BY A WOMAN.
MONK'S TRAGIC DEATH. -i
A REMARKABLE CAREER.
By Cable.—Press Association. —Copyrights (Received July 14, 11 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, July 13.
A woman shadowed a monk named ; Rasputin for a fortnight and then S fatally stabbed him in the village Pokrovsky Tobolsk. •
Rasputin was an illiterate ' peasant, who gained great influence '■% with the Tsar as- a piiracle worker, and he rose to be a power in Court circles. He became the agent for varioud y political cliques and" exercised influence in the Beliss case. ■;
A monk named Eliodor was imprisoned for thrashing Rasputin and denounC" ing him as a false prophet. . l ■■'"'Mi
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 135, 14 July 1914, Page 7
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