The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1904-08-04
WHOLESALE
MURDER PLOT
RUSSIAN MINISTER DIES AT AS
SASSIN'S HANDS.
WASCONSIDEREDApOWER
Band of Assassins in Making up it's
List of Victims Excerpts the Emper-
or as Being Uninvolved' Bomb
,Throwers Planned Carefully.

assassin of Interior Minister Won
Plehve is given by the Bourse Gazette
as Proezef. This cannot be confirmed.
The documents found show the ex-
lsterce OF wholesale plot to murder
ministers but the most remarkable
feature is that it did not include the
emperor, who is distinctly declared to
be uninvolved"
Y. Won Plehve, Minister of the r.
terror, was assassinated by a bomb
thrown at his carriage while he was
driving to the Baltic Station to take
a train for the palace at Peterhof.
where he was to make his weekly re-
port to the Emperor.
Numerous arrests have been made,
including that Of the assassin, young
man who is believed to be a Finn,
named Proezef, and who is now in a
hospital severely and perhaps fatally
injured by the explosion of his own
bomb.
The assassin wore brown overcoat
and a railroad officials cap. He stood
on the sidewalk just as Minister Won
Plehve's carriage was about to cross
the canal bridge near the station. The
Minister was escorted by number Of
detectives on bicycles, and one Of them
jostled the assassin, who then jumped
into the road and threw the bomb af-
ter the carriage. The missile struck
the hind wheel and exploded with
fearful force, killing or wounding over
score of persons. Minister Won
Plehve and his coachman were killed
outright, and the wounded and mad
dened horses dashed wildly away with
the front wheels Of the carriage, the
only portion Of the vehicle remain
ing intact. Immediately there ensued
q scene Of widest confusion. Police
and gendarmes hurried up from ev-
cry direction, and vast crowds gath
cred about the spot where the mangled
body Of the Minister lay weltering in
his blood.
One of the detectives arrested the
assassin, who endeavored to escape,
though wounded by splinters in the
face, arm and abdomen. He made no
attempt at resistance, however, when
seized by the detective, and confessed
bis crime, but refused to give his
name.
The capture Of the accomplice Of
The murderer was effected under cir
cumstances showing that the conspi-
rators pursued the very plan followed
at the time Of the assassination Of
Alexander II. The accomplices then
We're posted at several street corners
in order that If one man failed, an
other might succeed. The accomplice,
who is now under arrest, stood near
The Baltic depot ready to throw sec
md bomb in case the assassin station
I'd half a mile higher up the canal
had failed. The former could watch
Che course of events and when he
heard the explosion he was satisfied
that the murder had been accomplish
ed and hastily went down the canal
side, hired boat and directed the
boatman to take him for row to-
ward the sea, away from the scene
Of the tragedy. The boatman noticed
soon after they started that hrs pas
senger took card box out Of his peck
ct and ropped it quickly overheard.
The boatman said nothing but when
the passenger landed, he called a po-
liceman and gave the man in charge.
The prisoner, who respectively dress
ed, spoke Russian with a foreign &C
cent. He refused to give his name.
Divers are now searching the canal
bottom for the presumed bomb.
The recovery of Leglo, alias Proezef,
the assassin Of Won Plehve, is prac-
tically certain. Though tactiturn he
no longer refuses to talk. He declares
he had no accomplices. He carefully
avoids giving the slightest clue to his
identity. He admits it was careful
ly planned crime; says he was AMI
mated by humanitarian motives and
does not express the slightest regret.
The educated youths of Russia are
said to have been bitterly opposed to
M. Plehve, owing, it has been claimed,
to his turning on his own people and
TO the drastic changes which he inau-
gurated or advocated. He said to have
regarded the common people as either
dangerous criminals to be repressed or
as innocents to be ignored. Won
Plehve was largely Of Polish blood.
He was regarded as being in many
ways the power behind the throne, and
was dreaded on account of his con-
Secretaries Of State TO Meet.
Nashville. Through the efforts OF
Cocrotarv of State John w Morton.