HOW THE LATE CZAR WAS MURDERED.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXIII, Issue 11283, 2 June 1891, Page 3

HOW THE LATE CZAR WAS MURDERED.

(By An Eye Witness.) . Apropos of the tenth anniversary of the awful day when Alexander 11, who was murdered in his carriage as ho was driving back to his palace after the weekly military review at the Michael Menege in St. Petersburg, an eye-witness of the scene describes it as follows in the Kolniche Zeitung: — ESCAPED. When' tho Emperor's carriage was turning towards the palace of the Grand Duchess, Catherine Michaelovna, some passers-by saw a woman in black, standing on Casan Bridge, and pressing a white hankerchief three times to her face. ■ Perceiving this sign several men dressed like peasants approached the street running along the canal. The Imperial carriage was rapidly approaching, accompanied by the bodyguard ; hats were lifted in the crowd, and' the people began to shout " Hurrah !" Then suddenly there was a terrific crash ; flames and smoke were seen behind the carriage; paving-stones and pieces of the carriage were flying about; the horses stood still; and close to the carriage some .of the bodyguard and several other persons were weltering in their blood. One little baker-boy shrieked again and again, " I really cannot help it !" till in a few minutes death closed his eyes for ever. The imperial coachman, a man who had grown grey in the service of the Czar, saw at a glance that his master was not wounded, and that the carriage, though much. damaged, conld still be driven. He urged the horses with whip and rein to move on, l>ut there came almost immediately a sign from the interior of the carriage to stop; The door was opened and the Emperor stepped out pale as death, his hands bespattered with biood He iad been slightly wounded by splinters from the carriage windows. The officers and crowd thronged around him, -asking whether he was wounded. He shook his head, crossed himself, and, looking at the wounded, said in a low voice, "But these are!" At that momenta police officer reported that the murderer, had been caught. . . " Are you the criminal who tried to take my life," the Czar asked the young fellow in peasant clothes who was brought behim. " Yes," he replied in a firm voice. " What. is your name ?" He gave a false name ; his real name was Ryssakoff. Then a well-known officer of the Guards, approached the Emperor, asking whether he n as not really wounded. "No thank God, I am not," was the reply, and the peasant sneeringly murmured, as 1 ! if to himself, "It is too soon to thank God as yet." • AN AWFUL MOMENT. The Emperor did not hear these words, but went along the canal towardsihis car- . riage. Then suddenly a man pressed through the crowd, and threw, what looked like a snowball between himself and the Emperor. The latter was seen>to cross himself, but at that same {noment another crash, more terrible than the first, was heard, and both the Emperor and his murderer were for a moment enveloped in smoke. When tho smoke cleared away they both lay together; the Emperor's face was covered with blood, his legs were a shapeless, mangled mass, and a stream of blood from his body formed a red pool on the white snow. . • : Witfr-a ; o¥y '■' of- pa(n the Etaperor's youngest -and favourite brother, Grand Duke Michael, rushed towards the mutilated form, bent over it and called out, "Sasha, do you know me?" The Emperor murmured: "It is cold, cold," and after a pause "To the Winter Palace. . ». . let me die there." These were the monarch's last words. THE END OP IT ALL. '^ ' The Emperor was wrapped in an officer's cloak — his own was torn to rags — put into an open sledge, and slowly taken to the Winter Palace ; a trail of blood marked the whole distance.. The news spread like wildfire through the town, and soon a crowd of 10,000 was assembled in front of the Palace, from the top of which the Imperial flag was proudly flying. An endless row of carriages and sledges drove up before the Palace of the Czar ; one of the first. to arrive was the heir-apparent andhi? consort, both with faces, drawn with grief. They did not notice the salutes of the multitude, but only urged. tho coach-, man' to drive the horses faster. In gloomy. silence the crowd stood waiting, pasting anxious looks at the palace windows and at the imperial flag. Messengers were constantly giving news of the state, of the beloved monarch. Then for some time there was no news. Was it a good or a° bad sign? The silent answer came very soon, Slowly the imperial flag sank to half-mast high. The crowd knelt down, all heads were bared, and prayers were offered up for the dead Czar Liberator. Czar Alexander 111. had begun his reign.

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