The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-03-04
CAPTURE OF NIMILISTS.
t,.nsss Of Nihilist Printing Office Des-
pcrate Fight in tho Streets Of St..
Petersburg The Nihilists
Receive the Police
with Volleys.
NEW York HerAld.l


On the morning q NE th!rteth q J .sn.,s!
startled. Large crowds Of people assembled
early On that day In the BAperny pereuulor. Y
much freQuented street, distant only tor
minutes from the Neveky Prospect, the rea
centre iii tho capital, Much disorder was Oh
served d the entrance of one Of the houses
the furniture was being taken out from one q
che private lodgings, while policemen ant
the gendsrmss were running excitedly about
the house. About 10 o'clock In the morning
the temporary GovernoS General, aourko, ar'
diately followed by Zuroff, the ordinary
Governor Of tho CITY. Il was said
chen that another secret printing press
OF the Nihilists had been discovered
between the Nihilists and tho police In lhs
house during the night. and that the police
had succeeded In suhdulng the revOlutionistt
slnly After an engagement Of several hours
This h how II was: Az q person arrived a,
po Dor was, was given 10 tho djro,Nik 81 tho house
and transmitted by the latter to the police
Somehow the paper appeared peculiar, aud
suspicious were excited ~ 70 lts validity, IN
FORMATION was asked at the hotel from which
was discovered TINT no such person had ever
been there. So night descent upon the lodg.
inx wRs decided at o'clock on the night Oi
Tho twenty-ninth Of january. The police d.
vided Into two parties, Of three persons each,
and went up To the lodging where tho new
tenant was stepping. Que party went to the
front the other to the back entry.
Tho police began operations. Having runR
several times without result. they broke open
the door. but were received ty a Irregular vol
1orcements. The other party having at that
moment attacked tho front door and forced
an entrance, the beseiged shut themselves M
III one soi the rooms and shot necessarily
through the glass panes ut the top Of the
door. BY this time ! number. Of gendarmes
had arrived. The door was battered down.
when the beseiged barricaded themselves III
another room. When this was finally reached
the witness saw for moment, standing In
the middle. Of the room, only one man. who
temple and fell dead on the spot. He is said
to be no other than Dettch, the murderer Of
Nexentzoff. The others were taken after =
struggle Of two hours duration. There were
armed with daggers and pistols. Itappears
that their armed resistance was only to get
time to burn lot Of papers, pArtof which they
didsuoceed In destroying, though not All. There
was the secret printing office for which tho
police have searched for months past, and
secret society. the NdrodndJd VOLTA (the Will
OF the people.l but II seems that enough
papers have been captured to put all the in
tentions 81 the editors and writer's In the
on In pitch darkness, fact which explains
how few OF the shots took effect, for only one
man OF the assailants was wounded. But
fancy such q fight going on Ia the middle 81 .
freQuented street OF st. Petersburg! The
other two men and the two women were
taken. One was the wife OF one Of the cap
tured men. The other. who played the part
Of cook In the establishment, seems to have
been an active agent rs she tried to put her
SELF to death with dagger In her possession
during tho affair. What is quite surprising
is that the persons who lived Immediately
under this lodging never suspected anything,
and did not even come out during the turmoil
pearing quite natural, they have been ar
rested and carried away, together with the
captured Nihiilsts.