Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-07-28
ASSASSIN'S BOMB KILLS
CARS RIGHT HAND MAN
Won Plehwe, Minister Of the Interior, MUIR
dered In Streets OF St. Petersburg
The Tragedy Almost Frustrated the Emperor Who Trusted
Piehwe Implicitly ty-Tremendous Excitement Caused by the
to Have Been Conspiracy the
Part Jews, Whose Enemy Plehwe Was-Murderer Is
Captured After Attempting Suicide.

st. Petersburg. July eS.-Minister of
the Interior Won Plehwe was assass-
{ driving to Baltic station to visit the
emperor at Peterhof palace. The bomb
was thrown under the minister's car
riage completely shattering it. terribly
mangling Won Plehwe and killing the
coachman, the horses running away.
Il Is said the assassin was Jew. He
WAS arrested but declines to give. his
name.
Great Excitement.
Immediately there ensued n scene of
widest confusion Police and gem
darmes hurried up from every direc-
tion and vast crowds gathered about
the spot where the mnngled body of the
minister lay weltering in its blood. The
Associated Press correspondent was at
the scene OF the tragedy within Ave
minutes after 1t occurred. Plehwe's
shoclxingly mangled body was found
lying In the road partially covered with
q policeman's overcoat, with the left
arm. bone OF which was broken off.
projecting. The minister's head was
battered almost beyond recognition.
The roadway was strewn for hundred
yards with the wreckage of the car
riage. A few yards from Plehwe's
body in shape1ess heap lay the
coachnan,s remains.
Where Tragedy Occurred.
The tragedy occurred on zalalkon-
Xxi Prospect, a broad thoroughfare
leading up to the Warsaw depot. The
bomb thrower must have known per-
fectly well that Won Plehwe would
pass the spot this morning for the min
lister makes his report to the emperor
every Thursday. The internal machine
was thrown with deadly accuracy and
the explosion was terrific. practically
annihiliating the woodwork OF the car
riage The minister's servant who
was also in the carriage box, was badly
wounded. and two officers who were
driving by in cab We're injured by
flying splinters
Assassin Captured.
The assassin himself was wounded in
one eye. He took to flight but was
soon overtaken az arrested. The
news of the tragedy spread like Wild
IRE thruout the city. causing conster-
nation everywhere. The emperor was
greatly affected by the news, coming.
as 1t did, on top of bad tidings from
the seat OF war.
Emperor Almost Frustrated.
Fears of international complications
and the strain incident upon the hour
" expectation OF an event so close to a
fathers heart caused the emperor to
almost break down when he was In
formed Of the minister's murder.
Whatever may have been the motive
for the crime, nothing but the utmost
Indignation and condemnation Of the
assassin's act Is heard everywhere.
After the body had been viewed by
an official corresponding with the AM
erican coroner 1t was taken by gem
darmes to the deceased's residence adj
Joining the ministry Of tie interior.
A Conspiracy.
The first hurried investigation of the
police seems to connect the crime with
q plot which WAS frustrated by an ex-
plosion at the hotel Du Nord, April 13,
III which Kazanoff one of the conspir-
ators was killed by the accidental ex-
plosion of an Internal machine which it
1t is reported that six men are impli-
Gated and that five of them fled into
little hotel adjoining the scene of the
assassination. The hotel was surround
ed by the police and all inmates arrest
ed.
A wounded man, who is said to be a
Jew was taken to Alexander hospital so
dazed as to be unable to speak. His
condition was accounted for by the fact
that he took poison Immediately after
throwing the bomb.
According to later account the
bomb was thrown from a window of
the Warsaw hotel, Won Plehwe's head
being torn off There were only two
consrilators, according to this version,
one of whom threw the bomb from the
window and then bolted. When cap
tured another bomb; is said to have
been found in his pocket.
Plehwe's Career.
Won Plehwe was appointed ministerl
OF the interior. April Is. 1902. succeed