Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-08-07


supplied New York paper with de-
tailed account of the attempted assassina-
ton of the car in November, 1879. The
plan was to blow up the imperial train
while it was en- route to Moscow,
and sacrifice the life Of the
emperor and as many more
of the imperial household as possible.
The public are familiar with the result
and know the chance by which the
emperor escaped, though large number
of others were killed. The story of the
great crime is told with a detail never
before made public and will be read with
interest.
Hartmann first explains and apologies
for being an assassin and details his ad
mission to the supreme administrative
council of nihiliSts, or more properly
assassins. This council determined upon
blowing up the imperial train and sent
out agents to make the preliminary
arrangements. We now quote
HARTMANN's STORY.
At length our agents returned from
their accommodating expedition. One of
them found house for sale in Moscow, sit
uated on the outskirts of the city, 100
feet distant from the track of the South
ern railroad, by which the czar was to
pass on his way from the Crimea to the
capital. This house the administrative
council resolved to purchase, and | was
instructed to go Immediately to Moscow
Il otnrc
as were fit to take part in so serious
business Sophie Perovsky, Goldenberg,
1.-THE same who later committed suicide in
the St. Petersburg fortress and two 9TH
ers volunteered to accompany me. So
phie Perovsky and myself preceded the
others on the It'll of September, both in
disguise-L as young Russian merchant,
Sukhorukotf by name, she as my wife.
THE HOUSE PURCHASED.
The various legal proceedings pertain
ing to the purchase of the house took two
weeks of our precious time. We chafed
under this delay lest the time should be
too short to get the mine ready before the
passage of the car. At length the house
was purchased for $500 rubles. We
bought some furniture and other neces-
saries suitable for the household
of we'll TODD Russian. mer-
chant, and entered our new abode
on the 22d of the same month. Our two
story wooden house had four windows on
the front in each story, looking out on a
street running between the house and the
railroad track, and three windows on
each side, facing the neghDoring houses,
which all belonged to Star0oer (sectarian)
families To the right and in the rear of
the house was large yard with barn
projecting, with one of its sides in such
way toward the street as to make the
railroad track thence plainly visible The
inner disposition of the house during our
mining operations were as follows: A
staircase on the outer side of the house
led from the yard into a corridor in the
upper story. From this corridor one
single door led into the kitchen, whence
three doors opened, one into Perovsky's
bedroom, the other into secret bed
chamber, where the 'workmen slept
whose presence in the house remained
concealed, and whence another small
room could be reached, used as q toilet
room, where we washed, changed clothes
after work. dried our mining costumes
and repaired our instruments. The mid
die door led into the dining room, which
was at the same time used by me as bed
room. In order to be .always ready in case
of danger slept there on sofa in my
clothes, without any cushions. Sophie
Perovsky's bedroom and the dining room
were furnished in that peculiar fashion
customary to Moscow merchant On
one wall hung large, horribly painted,
cheap portraits of the car, the empress,
and the whole imperial family; the wall
oIo cd with
traits of the mitropolite of Moscow and
other celebrated dlvines In the eastern
corner of each room there hung a sacred
image in a rich gold frame, supposed to
have been the gift of our parents at our
marriage. On these images there stood
half burned wax candles-our GO marriage
candles 1.-THE candles which bride and
bridegroom hold in their hands during
the ceremony. Around these images
there stood other Silver and wooden ikons
of various sizes, representing all sorts
of saints, our Saviour. the Virgin Mary,
and so ON. Before these, sacred lamps
were kept burning every night. The
whole impression produced by the ar
rangement of the house was such as to
please and flatter the tastes of our p1ous
neighbors, who, of course, visited us as
soon as we had taken possession of the
house, and whose remarks concerning us
we often overheard.
COMMENCING MINING OPERATIONS.
Now we could safely begin our work.
The last of the three dodgers occupying
the lower story had not left the premises
and already we had hired two workmen
to dig a large hole near the stove of seven
feet by seven. The earth was thrown out
into the yard. Of course the neighbors
came Immediately to inquire what we
were about. All suspicious vanished.
however, when L explained to them that
l meant to dig large ice cellar under the
house for storing up provisions for the
winter. Onsthe 9Th of October the cellar
was ready, the last one of our dodgers had
left us, we were alone and could now be-
gin work in earnest. I telegraphed to
my friends in st. Petersburg and three of
them arrived the very next day One of
them settled in the house and lived there
secretly, never leaving the house for
more than six weeks The two others
came every morning and left at night
fall. They lived in private rooms in the
city. After infinitely inspecting the
ground we had to operate on we decided
on the following plan: A gallery was to
l. To-, l.