The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-04-10
rr,a, Of the uxar,s Assassius.

st. Petersburg, April 0.-In the tral OF the
Rihilists. implicated In assassination of the
late czar, which commenced on the Ith inst,
after the reading of the indictment was COLI
cluded, the president of the court asked the
prisoners In turn whether they wished to say
anything. Roussakof, who threw enc of the
bombs, spoke for half an hour. He said he
desired to agitate peaceiulness, but entered
into the late conspiracy seeing no
t4o"bes Etaf5 way SSchaio wSo was s0 arrsssa sGss
as he entered Rousseakofi's house, said he he
longed to the terrorism faction OF the party,
but denied Ruusseakoff's statement that he
participated In the arrangements for the muir
der of the czar Heulfman acknowledged that
he kept n conspirator's lodging house, which
WAS the depot for their impem en,s. He denied
ton. Kebalbachich, the bomb maker,
ayowed his connection with the will OF the
people party. Their wish, he said, was to
gain their objects by peaceful propaganda,
but aaoy snsy T9rs hs srr"rm ss%S w SsEsa
lie admitted preparing five bombs
Sophie Prefiesky avOwed her par
ticlpation In preparation OF the Moscow
mine In the attempt TO murder the car Jel Ia
bon, who is the most intelligent of the prlso-
ners, fluently related with disbolical satlsIac-
ton the history of tue two Alcxandro0,ky
mines. lie said he was the head OF
one group OF the party, anu wa.
charged by the executive COMMITTEES with the
was connected with the SNduwR street mine Ms
o simple worker. After these declarations the
procura tor stated that IL would perhaps be
PosISSls aSs tn shorten no sta,enspt 'Ss Ial a.
tempts 10 cXtenuate the cases OF houssakofI,
and Nichalon by asserting ihat the former
was only propaganda among the workmen
aud knew nothing of the arrangement for the
al -
entirely innocent with the crime,
The rest of the proceedings was
occupied with examination Of witnesses, II
policemen. Jeliabon showed great skill IN
examining witnesses, and succseded In ut
ttrly confusing one OF them To.day's sit
ting viii be occupied In hearing speeches for
the prosecution. In the center oil
the court room are various articles
or tangible evidence against the prisoners
such az boxes of dynamite, papers Of chemi-
Gals, apparatus, tto placed on table and
guarded by gondarmes with drawn swords.
The prisoners are all aIilred In black.
London, April GA dispatch frpm st. Pc
tcrsburg, dated last night, says at the trial to-
day Russnkoir az Nlcha luH appeared do
Jected. Jtl .boT maintained the aoimation he
mad sbowa throughout. u side the
examination Of witness; the court was large
ly occupied In the scrutiny. Of material uAed
by the assassiDs. Great excitement was
caused by the production of two bombs. simi-
lar to those which killed the czar General
Fradaff, In explaining their mechanism and
composition, was crOss.egamiued by Kcl-
balochltish, who made them. Among the
ohlecs examined was Photographic groups of
nihillsts who have been executed, u auanii-
i5urnal. some large cylindricai tin cases
illed with dynamite. discovered at
the residence of Jcliabof and sophie
Protofisky, and several pans Of
81. Petersburg, hevlnr tho palace OF the arand
Duke Michael, Michael Menags, Engineer
street, Catherine canal. lite Garden Atreet
and other points connected with the assassina-
ilon of tho czar. Jeli,bof and sophie Peeioffs-
ky refused TO spswereevernl questions All the
kilograms describing the first da.s proceed-
ings were detained At the telegraph oillce I'LL
about midnight Of Thursday. This correspon-
dents were informed OF the detention and that
the kilograms wou'd not DO forwarded unless
countersignsd by Assistant Prosecutor Marine-
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