A ST PETERSBURG INCIDENT.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8159, 13 June 1906, Page 3

A ST PETERSBURG INCIDENT.

A most exoiting incident occurred Iheother day in St. Feteruburg the entire significance of which may possibly prove greater than is at present apparent. The hero of this dramatio episode is an offloer named Captain Biman, whom the War Office regard as energetic, resourceful, and trustworthy, and considers that ne dsplayed these qualities in Mosoow a few months baok, where he helped to trample oat the insurrection. Anyhow, the revolutionists likewise marked him as a prominent man and resolved to make away with him. The unabridged story has a distinctly romantic ring about it, but that wll be published later. The officers of the Semoneff Regiment are living on good terms with the privates, who keep a sharp lookout for revolutionists. One day a smartly i dressed nav&l otlioer appeared at Qaptain Riman's quarters And asked to see the captain on business, but he was told he was out. Next dayi another officer appeared In the person of Prince Drutdkoy Srharrvaky, who presented a oard asking for the same person. The orderly replied that the captain was out, and would the visitor kindly oome again. The prince, pleasantly k assenting, withdrew, whereupon the aoldiers suspecting a plot, informed the police, who despatched two detectives] next morning to wait the prince's return. Prince Drutskoy kept his word, arrived at the time fixed, repeated his request to see Oaptain RJman and handed in his oard. The orderly saluted respect, fully, answering that the oaptain was in an adjoining dwelling, and would the visitor kindly repair thither. The prinoe went, but just as he was inthe tnoronghfare the detectives seized bis arms, saying that resistance was useless and placing him in an open conveyance. : When driving across the Nevsky Prospekt, however, the prisoner Suddenly <*hook off his captors, dealing them heavy blows, jumped from - the drossky, and ran for bare life, pursued by two plain clothes policemen. Some soldiers in the street,' noticing an officer pursued by civilians, took his part and arrested the pursuers. The detectives then erled: "That man is no officer, but a disguised revolutionist! We are* detectives! Arrest him i" The soldiers turned and followed the runaway, whom they overtook and cap» tured. He was found to be in possesion of a loaded Browning revolver, and poisoned knife.