The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1904-07-29

| hVe minutes after 1t occurred. M Won
Plehye's shockingly mangled body
| was lying in the middle of the road.
It had been partially covered with a
police officers overcoat, with the left
arm, the bone Of which was broken
Off, projecting. A policeman came up
and raised the overcoat in order to re-
arrange it, revealing for an instant
the strong features of the dead minis
ter, whose head was battered
Almost Beyond Recognition.
The roadway was streWn for a hun
dred yards with the wreckage of the
carriage and pieces of the red lining
of the minister's official overcoat. A
few yards from M. Won Plehves body
lay a shapeless heap of the coach
mans remains.
The tragedy occurred on the Zabal-
ansky prospect, a broad thoroughfare
leading up to the Warsaw depot,
whence the road turns sharply to the
leftWard to the Baltic railroad station.
The exact spot at which the outrage
occurred is just before the bridge
spanning Circular canal, on the other
side OF which both stations are stu.
ated.
The bomb thrower must have known
perfectly well that Minister Won
Plehve would pass the spot, for the
minister makes his report to the en-
peror every Thursday.
The internal machine was thrown
with deadly accuracy and the assas-
sin was favored by the fact that traffic
here is always of the heaviest, owing
to the crossing of lines of surface
cars and the continuous stream OF
heavy trucks. NJ Won Plehve was al
ways apprehensive of attempts upon
his life and used to drive rapidly.
The coachman, however, was COM
PEELED to go slow at this point.
The assassin in laying his plans evi-
IDENTIFY foresaW this circumstance and,
while the minister's coachman slowed
down, threw the bomb. The
Explosion Was Terrific
and practically annihilated the wood
work Of the carriage The horses tore
Off, dragging the axle and the front
wheels. The animals, though infuri-
ated by the wounds they had sus-
tanned, had not galloped far before
they fell, with pools of blood under
them.
The minister's servant, who was
also on the carriage box, was badly
wounded and two officers, who were
driving by in a cab, were injured by
flying splinters. The assassin himself
was wounded in one eye. He took to
f! flight but was Overtaken and is now
under arrest.
Altogether fourteen outsiders were
injured by the explosion. Captain
| TzentVsky of the guards, who was
driving in a cab, sustained fracture
of the skull. 1t has been trepanned,
but the captain is not expected to re-
cover
The news of the tragedy spread like
Nildfire throughout the city, causing
CONSERVATION everywhere Police re-
serves were hurried to the scene from
all parts of the city and the various
departments were instantly notified.
The prefect of police notified the en-
peror of the tragedy Immediately upon
its occurrence. The emperor, who was
at the Villa Alexandria at Peterhof.
was greatly affected by the news, com.
ing, as it did, atop of the bad tidings
from the seat of war, fears of interna.
tional complications and the strain in.
cident u.on the hourly expectation OF
an event SO close to the fathers hear
The emperor almost broke down when
he was informed Of the minister's
murder.
Senator Won Plehve was appointed
minister of the interior April 1S, 1902
succeeding M. Sipiaguino, who was
assassinated April 16, 1902.
PopuIace Eager for Details.
| Won Plehve's assassination was Off,
/ 1xy ny Il ok ~ ~,
and was followed Immediately by the
issuance OF extra editions of the pa,
pers. Although they contained only
a few lines referring to the tragedy the
neWsboys were fairly mobbed by the
crowds in the streets, so eager were
all for details of the crime Intense
excitement reigned everywhere. Only
the assassination of the emperor could
have created more of sensation, as
next to his majesty himself Won
Plehve was regarded as the most
powerful personality in the Russian
| government.
Guarded by police the body re-
NAMED in the street until the arrival
of an official corresponding with an
had viewed the body it was placed in
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driven slowly to a little chapel adjoin-
ing the railroad station and then to
the deceased's magnificent town resi-
dence adjoining the ministry of the
interior. The carriage, surrounded by
mounted gendarmes, passed through
the crowded streets, the sidewalks be
ing solid mass of people. Even the
cross streets were black with spec.
tators for blocks. AS if by magic
everybody in the city seemed to have
suddenly become aware that a fright
full catastrophe had occurred and to
| have hurried to the scene. AS the
carriage passed all heads were uncov-
cred.
The assassin, who was wounded in
the abdomen by splinter, underwent
a successful operation. When throw
ing the bomb he shouted Long live
! freedom with a little Russian accent.
His name has not been ascertained
| and the prisoner told the police that
he had no accomplices. 1t is estab-
lished, however, that the assassin is
not Jew, as at first reported.
Won PLEHvE CORDIALLY HATED.
Had More Enemies Than Any Man in