Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1904-07-30
RUSSIAN PRESS ON
LATE ASSASSINATION
Won Plehve's Death Regarded
as National Loss.
COMMENT ON HIS CHARACTER
Police Are Now Busy Unraveling the
Conspiracy Back of This Crime,
Which Has Shocked Russia and the
Civilized World.


very long accounts of the assassination
OF the minister of the interior Won
Plehve, Biographical sketches OF the
dead statesman and comments on lis
character as a man. All the papers
agree that great personality has
been taken off in the midst Of his
work.
The Novoe Vremya says:
IN. Won Plehve was a strong, intel.
lectual man, but most of all, he had
a thorough insight and knew well
what particular features were waiting
to make up a true balance of Russian
national life"
The Russ declares that the dead
minister's faithful name will live in
connection with agricultural and peas.
ant reforms and that it is an infinite
pity he was taken off in the midst of
his work, leaving his plans all I'M
perfected.
The Novosti says:
IN. Won PIehve was a great man
with a passion for order, which was
shown in his handling of every prob
lem thrown in his way. His ability
to deal with perplexing questions
touching all classes of society which
fell into his hands evidenced his won,
derful strength and versatility. His
death is a loss to our national life"
The Official Messenger says:
"His death is an irreparable loss to
all truly patriotic Russians He was
a faithful servant to the throne and
to the fatherland. He was intel
lectuaI and Of firm will, not sparing
himself in health, strength, or private
interests where public duty was con.
cerned. He did not accomplish all he
set out to do, still his name must be
handed down on the list of the dead
and true servants of his country"
Twenty bystanders were injured by
the explosion of the bomb, but only
seven of them We're seriously hurt.
M Won Plehve's funeral will proba.
bly, be held tomorrow.
liz IN N0popNI0 10 pA III uI4uo udI1y 1ul4
and free accounts of the crime, having
been officially notified that no re.
strictiOn will be placed on news or com.
ment, save as they might interfere
with the work Of the police in unrav.
cling the conspiracy back Of the crime,
which work is alreay under way.
ST. Petersburg, July 29.-The name
of the assassin of Interior Minister
Won Plehve, is given by the Rourse
Gazette as Prozef, but this is not con.
frmed by the police, who, if satisfied
that they have established the identi.
ty or even the nationality of the mur.
derer, are carefully guarding the facts,
perhaps to throw his accomplices off
the scent.
The general public is disposed to
regard the crime as intimately con.
nected with the far-reaching terrorist
plot revealed last summer by the ar.
rest of Gerschunin, the Russian revol
lutionary agitator at Kieff where he
uCtO SUM " VI E1u1LC d1 dIL0A1pL Ou
the emperors life at Sarafof during
the ceremonies incident to the canon.
ization of ST. Seraphim.
The subsequent trial established the
fact that Geruschuntn was the head
of murderous conspiracy similar to
the Nih1list conspiracies of the early
eighties, tn object of which was I'd
create a reign Of terror in Russia by
killing ministers, governors ana the
emperor himself. Gerschunin is q
Jew and was a former petty official
of St. Petersburg. The perpetrators
of the murders as we'll as the victims
were to be selected BY lot. The se
ries of crimes resulting from this con
spiracy began with the attempt on the
life of Privy Councillor Pobeiedonosta1
the chief procurator of the holy synod
who was fired at by the name OF Log
owski, March p, 1901, and included
the killing of M. Bogdanovitch, ex
Governor General of Ufa, European
, Russia, who was assassinated May 10
1903; M. Bogoliepoff, former minister
of public instruction, who was sho
by Peter Karpevich, February II, 1901
and died March Is of the same yea1
from the effects of his wound, and NJ
Sipiaguine, NJ Won Plehve's predeces
sor, assassinated April 16, 1902, b!
student named Balmashoff and The
attempts on Prince Obolenski, nov
governor of Kharkoff, he being free
at four times August II, 1902, anC
Prince Gailtzsin, governor general o
the Caucasus, who was stabbed b.
three natives in the outskirts Of Tifis
October 81, 1903 The more recen
murders of General Bobrikoff, OF Fin
land, who was shot by Eugene Schau
mann June Is, and died the follcwin!
morning, and of Vice Governor An
drieff, of ElizabethpoI, Trans Caucasia
assaulted July II last, probably were
not connected with this plot TIL,
latter crime was undoubtedly to pro
mote vengeance. The arrest cf Ger
schunin was conducted under dlamat
ic circumstances. He had been shad
owed by the Austrian police and 0,
his arrival at Kieff tried to escape b,
jumping from an electric car after al
exciting chase Gerchunin was cap
| tured, and he and two others, one o
whom was a woman, were tried, con
| victed and sentenced to death, but tn