The Attempt to Murder the Czar of Russia.
JiOKDOX, March Hi. Pat’Hcnl i r f 'W the attempted assassination of tuo Czar sbo v that a bystander seized a student who was preparing to place a bomb on iho pavement just as the Czar and Czarina were expected. A second student, who bad a bomb concealed iu a bag, was seized while trying to escape. A womau was arrested carrying a bomb iu her muff. On the attempted outrage being revealed to the Czar he burst into tears. The constitutional conspiracy which was discovered prior to this plot widely affects the provincial nubility and the army. It is now loured that the plotters lavor tic adoption of a Pau-Slavist policy. Upwards of 200 persons have been \ arrested at St Petersburg, having m j iheir possession bombs made to resemble books, aud containing dynamite and poisoned bullets. I
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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2044, 18 March 1887, Page 2
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147The Attempt to Murder the Czar of Russia. Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2044, 18 March 1887, Page 2
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