Evening journal., 1904-07-29

a student-whO had pressed through
the crowd on the sidewalk in the Ia
balkanskl prospect.
Won Plehves head was almost torn
from his body by the explosion that
followed. The driver and the minis
ter's servant were instantly killed. and
the horses, mangled by the shower Of
fire and flying scrap iron. galloped mad
ly forward dragging the front axle
and wheels through the crush of traffic
until they dropped dead. In the wreck
Of the vehicle lay the body Of Won
Plehve. the lower part of his strong
face blown away and the bare bone of
a shattered arm protruding from the
torn sleeve.
SO terrific was the shock Of the ex.
plosion that all the window panes i.
the immediate neighborhood were sha,
tered Two officers of the guard who
were riding about ten yards behind the
minister's carriage were severely in
jured, and one Of them is at death
door Twenty other persons were hurt.
A flying fragment struck a bargeman
in a canalboat near the bridge, about
100 yards away from the center of the
tragedy, and knocked him unconscious.
Bomb Thrower Arrested.
The young man who had thrown the
bomb-slight. pale and Of intellectual
appearance-was arrested in the War
saw hotel, almost opposite the place OF
the tragedy after the police had sur
rounded the building and examined ev-
cry person in IT, He too. was wound.
ed. A particle Of the bomb had struck
him in the eye. binding it. and another
piece had entered his abdomen. An
immediate operation was resorted ia
in an effort TO save his life in order
that he may face justice and official
vengeance His name is Leglo, and he
is believed to be a Finn.
Disclosure Of a widespread plot has
been made by the activity Of the po-
lice. An accomplice Of the assassin,
also apparently a Finn, had bomb in
his hand when the detectives rushed
upon him, but was unable 10 throw II
because a hotel servant pinned his arms
from behind. Many other arrests have
/ been made.
As Minister Of Justice Muravieff was
driving to the Peterhof palace to re-
/ port TO Emperor Nicholas the assassina.
/ ton of Minister of the Interior vor
| Plehve stones were thrown at him, and
his carriage windows were broken. The
identity of the minister's assailants has
not yet been discovered.
The blow at the system which Vor
! Plehve represented was summarized
/ by the censor i'm four lines. None OF
the newspapers were permitted to print
anything more about the tragedy thar
the bare fact that the minister Of the
Interior was assassinated at 9:0C
o'clock by a miscreant who threw
bomb under his carriage. But the en-
1 tire capital knew a few moments aftel
the explosion that some terrible catas
trophe had happened TO official Russia
When the body Of Won Plehve had
been viewed by the minister Of justice
and taken to the little chapelle ardente
near the station-the only editice within
a radius Of half mile that had not
been partially wrecked by the outbursI
OF fire-the street was packed by silent
stolid people. After solemn requiem
the solemn "Gospody Pomiluy" of the
Russian church-bad been sung ovel
the almost unrecOgnizable body II was
covered with a policeman's cloak an'
put into a carriage 10 be taken 10 thu
minister's palace, adjoining the minis
try Of the interior.
To the door Of the house and beyon'