The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-07-30
CONSPIRACY WAS
FAR REACHING
SAY THE RUSSIAN POLICE
ASSASSIN OF MINISTER Won
PLEHVE CERTAIN TO RECOVER.

Claimed Now That His Name is PO-
rozeff-HandsOme Young Fellow OF
25-Says He Committed Crime for
BENEFIT of neutrality-suspicious.
Plan to Murder Ministers, But
Emperor Was Not Included. 1t is
Claimed.
st. Petersburg. July 29.-The name of
the assassin of Interior Minister Won
Plehve is given by the Bourse Gazette
as Porozeff. but this is not confirmed
by the police.
The correspondent of the Associated
Press learned that while the identity
and nationality of the assassin and his
accomplice are still not definitely es-
tablshed, the police are making prog
ress in unraveling the skein. They
are amazed to find how far reaching
was the conspiracy.
There is nothing yet, however, to
prove it's connection with that of Ger
schunin. The documents found show
the existence of a Wholesale plan to
murder ministers, but the most re-
markable feature is that it did not in
clude the Emperor, who is distinctly
declared to be "uninvolved"
Had Second Bomb Rendy.
The capture of the accompfice Of the
murderer was effected under circum-
stances showing that the conspirators
pursued the very plan followed at the
time of the assassination of Alexander
II. The accomplices then were posted
at several street corners, in order that
if one man failed another might sue
coed. The same plan was adopted yes
terday.
The accomplice who is now under
arrest stood near the Baltic depot
ready to throw second bomb in case
the assassin stationed half a milo
higher up the canal had failed. The
former could watch the course of
events, and when he heard the explo-
sion he was satisfied that the murder
had been accomplished and hastily
went down the canal side, hired a boat
for so kopecks per hour and directed
the boatman to take him for a row to-
ward the sea, away from the scene of
the tragedy.
Divers Hunting Bomb.
The boatman noticed soon after they
started that his passenger took card
board box out of his pocket and drop
ped it quickly overheard. The boat
man said nothing, but when the pas
senger landed, he called a policeman
and gave the man in charge The
prisoner, who was respectfully dressed,
spoke Russian with a foreign accent
He refused to give his name. Divers
are now searching the canal bottom
for the presumed bomb.
The assassin walked up and down
the street a the corner whence he threw
the bomb. at least a quarter of an
hour, awaiting Won Pheve's carriage.
He did not arouse the slightest sus-
picion on the part of several police
men who were almost alongside of him,
because he wore an. official (railroad)
cap. A uniform of any kind invariably
inspires confidence in Russia.
Plan Was Well Arranged.
The murderer must have known
Won Plehve's carriage well. as he paid
no attention to the passage of several
other ministers who had preceded
Won Plehve in going to Peterhof AS
soon as the victims carriage appeared
the assassin ran forward with the
evident intention of throwing the bomb
through the window
felt his coming doom before the death
dealing charge burst.
Had the cyclist detective accom-
panying the minister ridden straight
he might have knocked down the MUIR
derer and saved the minister's life at
the cost of his own, but the cyclist
instinctively swerved, enabling the
assassin to launch the internal ma
chine after retarding the carriage.
Assassin's Recovery Certain.
The recovery of Lego. alias Porozeff.
is practically certain. He is entirely
conscious, although suffering acute
extracting the splinters from his alb
domen, face and arm. Though tact
turn, he no longer refuses to talk.
He speaks Russian fluently but with
foreign accent, and declares he had
no accomplces. The assassin careful
ly avoids giving the slightest clue to
his identity. He admits it was a care
fully planned crime, says he was ami
mated by humanitarian motives, and
does not express the slightest regret.
Minister Horribly Torn.
The assassin was examined by an
investigating magistrate to-day and
refused to make any statement. The
post mortem examination of the re-
mains Of Won Plehve shows that his
death was instantaneous.
The entire lower part of his face was
destroyed, and the upper part was
shockingly furrowed by bomb spllnters
The ears were torn off, and there was
gaping wound in his breast, his left
shoulder was mangled his left arm
was broken off between the wrist and
the elbow and his legs were broken
The murderer is still in the hospital
He is a handsome man of about %
years, with blonde complexion and reg