The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-30
Plot to Kill Ministers,
Not the Gar.
CERTAIN OF SUCCESS
The Assassins Were so Placed That
if One Failed Another Would Sue
ceed---The Murderer Says His
Were Motives Dictated
by Humanity.
lBy the Associated Press.l

st. Petersburg, July 29.-The name
Of the assassin of Interior Minister
Won Plehve, is given by the Bourse
Gazette as Porozeff. but this is not
confirmed. by the police.
The correspondent of the Associated
Press learned that while the identity
and nationality of the assassin and,
his accomplish are still not definitely
established, the police are making
progress in unraveling the skein. They
are amazed to find how far-reaching
was the conspiracy. There is nothing
yet, however, to prove it's connection
with that of Gerschunin. = The docu-
ments found show the existence 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 un-
involved
The capture of the accomplice of the
murder was effected under circum-
stances showing that the consplrators
pursued the very plan followed at the
time of the ASA ssination of Alexander
II. The accomplices then were posted
at several street corners, in order thas
# one man failed another might sue
coed.
Made Sure of Success.
The same plan was adopted yester-
day The accomplish who is now uh-
der arrest stood near the Baltic depot
ready to throw a second bomb IN
case the assassin stationed half mile
higher up the canal had failed. The
former could watch the course or
events and when he heard the explo-
sion he was satisfied that the murder
had been accomplished and hastily
went down the canal side, hired a boat
for eighty kopecks per hour ana IL
rected the boatman to take him FOR
n row toward the sea, away from the
scene OF the tragedy. The hoatman
noticed soon after they started that his
passenger took q cardboard box out or
his pocket and dropped it quickly
overheard. The boatman said MOTH
ing, but when the passenger landed
he called a policeman and gave the
man i'm charge. The prisoner, who
was respectfully dressed. spoke Rus
sian with a foreign accent. He &c
fused to give his name. Divers aEs
now searching the canal bottom fol
the presumed bomb.
The assassin walked up and down
the street, at the corner whence ne
threw the bomb, at least quarter
of an hour, awaiting Won Plehves
carriage He did not arouse the
slightest suspicion on the part of the
several policemen who were almost
alongside of him because he wore an
official trailroado cap. uniform o,
any kind invariably inspires conf
dence i'm Russia. The murderer must
have known Won Plehve's carriage
well. as he paid no attention to the
passage of several others who hGc
preceded Won Plehve's going to Jeter-
hof AS soon as the victim car
riage appeared, the assassin ran foT-
ward with the evident intention or
throwing the bomb through the win
dow Won Plehve must have seen
him and felt his coming doom be-
fore tbs Geath-dealing charge bpist.
Had the cyclist detective accompany
ing the minister ridden straight he
might have knocked DOWN tho tnur-
derer and saved the minister's life
at the cost of his own, but the cycllst
instinctively swerved. enabling the
assassin TO launch the Internal ma
chine after retaring the carriage.
The Assassin Becomes Fluent.
The recovery of Lego, alias Pore
zoff, is practically certain. He is en-.
tirely conscious although surveying
acute pain in consequence OF the OPP
Grafton in extracting the splinters
from his abdomen, face and arm.
Though taciturn he no longer refuses
TO talk He speaks Russian fuently'
but with foreign accent ana ue-
clares he had no acomplices The
assassin carefully avoids giving the
slightest clue to his identity. lie al
mits it was a carefully planned crime,
saws he was animated by HUMANE
tartan motives and does not express
the slightest regret.
The assassin was examined by an IN
vestigating magistrate today ana re-
fused to make any statement.
The post-mortem examination OF
the remains of Won Plehve shows tnat
his death was instantaneous. Inc
entire lower part of his face was de-
stroyed and the under part was shock
ingly furrowed by bomb spl1nters.
The ears were torn off. there was
gaping wound in his breast ms le1t
shoulder was mangled, his left arm
was broken off between the wrist and
the elbow and his legs We're broken.
The murdered is still in the hosp1-
tai. He is a handscTe man or ABOUT
IS years with blonde regular Tea