Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-07-28
BOMBTHROWR UNDER CARRIAGE
c,lme Was Committed at 10 o'clock
This Morning In St
Petersburg,
THE ASSASSIN, A Jew, ARRESTED.
rOachman Killed--POlice Inclined to
Connect Crime With Hotel du NOrd
Plot of April Last.

Plot Of April Last.
e. Petersburg. July 2S-G0;55 n, m)
Minister Of the Interior Won Plehve
VAS assassnated this morning while
driving to the Baltic station to visit
,be emperor at the Petorhof palace.
4 bomb was thrown under The min
,sters carriage, completely SCATTERING
Il NJ Won Plehye was terribly man
gled.
The crime was committed at 10
o'clock. The assassin was arrested.
lie is said to be q Jew, who thus far
has declined to give his name.
Regarding the Identity of the assas-
Gin and the cause Of the crime, by
some II is said that the act was that
ola Finn, and by others that the mrr-
derer was a partisan of the zemstyos,
The ourailment Of whose powers IL at
tributed to the dead minister Nothing,
however, has been definitely established
as yet -
EMPEROR NOTIFIED.
The project OF police notified the en-
peror Of the tragedy Immediately upon
It's occurrence. The emperor, who was
at the villa Alexandria at Peterhof,
was greatly affected by the news, CONF
ing as IL did, on top Of the bad tidings
from the seat OF war, fears of internal
t0nal complications and the strain in-
Cident upon the hours expectation OF
an event so close 60 the fathers heart.
The emperor almost broke down when
lewas informed Of tie minister's MUIR
der,
Whatever may have been the mo-
tive for the crime, nothing but the Ut
most Indignation and condemnation of
the assassn's act Is voiced anywhere.
CORONER VIEWS REMAINS.
Guarded by police the body remained
IN the street until the arrival of the
official corresponding with an American
coroner Even In the case of the most
powerful minister OF the empire the
law requires that this formallty had
to be observed before the remains could
be removed. After this official had
viewed the body 1t was placed in a car
4 Rage covered by robe, and was
A driven slowly to little chapel adjoin-
ing the railroad station, and then to the
deceased mans magnificent town resi-
dence adjoining the ministry of the In
terror The carriage, surrounded ny
. mounted gendames passed through
the crowded streets, the sidewalks he
4 ing solid mass Of people. Even the
cross streets were black with specta-
tors for blocks. As IL by magic every
BODY IN the city seemed TO have sud
denly become aware that q frightful
4 catastrophe had occurred and 10 have
hurried 20 the scene. As the carriage
passed all heads were uncovered.
HOTEL DU NoRD PLOT.
The first hurried investigation OF the
police seems to connect the crime with
me plot which was frustrated by the
explosion az the Hotel du Nord April
~ IN which Kazanoff, one of the con-
tplfalors, was killed by the accidental
explosion of an Internal machine which
~ NE time It was said, was intended
for Won Plehve.
CONSPlRATOR KILLED.
On that occasion companion of the
0W@plator who was killed escaped.
wing TO the frightful force OF the ex-
Ioa9n on that occasion, which COM
petey wrecked two rooms blowine
Iue BODY Of ka2anoff almost to atoms,
seVerlng his head and arms from the
uunM heads Of the police believe II is
pssiole that the explosive was identi-
Si WIN That used in todays tragedy.
WV "i'n was caused by bomb or infer
wl uacnlne of similar power with
r ae Oh the former plot, and that the
at that time ~ WV PeN
AS further indications OF the Identity
og w tragedy with the Hotel du Nord
", mere were I'm each case three
4 'poslVe bullets IN the bomb.
niN y rumored that six men are i'm
myated and that nve of them fed into
nllle hotel adjoining the scene of
, NV assassination, the only one who
TSo wounded having been captured.
srS g n9'el was surrounded by the police
''' i's inmates were arrested
THE ASSASSIN.
me wounded man. who is said to be
IosrJ. was taken TO the Alexander
speak '' u pe unable TO
ms condition was accounted for bv
Ufoiv 10y. H' WIN Nplhbn 1mileUl
TX outer throwing the bomb.
oye, "e man was being followed by So
cio ' men on bicycles, but by a mira
TE Eo' any ono Of them was injured.
,ro ane force Of the explosion WAS so
Sov,mHehdous that all the Windows OF n
So oSv' racing the street were blown in
Wsrs wen some Of the large panes OF
we,o VIEW station a hundred steps away.
Griv v shattered Some Of the drosltv
tbo 'eIs az the cab stand in front Of
=, station were injured.
W" PLEHvEs HEAD BLOWN OFF.
oMnSSCording to later account tho
The was mas thrown from a window OF
WA alsaw hotel, Won plehve's hend
con,ni torll on, the lower portion WAS
par, P,,g,eiy shattered. but the INNER
\ two' was untouched. There were onlv
s'o ~ Vonspirators, according TO mis- yer.
from 9 ,e OF whom threw the bomb
A When 'le window and then bolted.
n 10 Md captured another bomb ls said
n A boo oeen found In his pocket.
"''p OF debris. a carriage, a por-