The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-07-30
Which Recent Assassination Re.
veals Aimed at High
Officials,
CONDEMNED TO DEATH
~ A REVOLUTIONARY COMMIT
TEE AS OPPORTUNITIES PRE-.
SENT THEMSELVES
CAR LIST OF THOSE
DOOMED.


| of the assassin Of Interior Minister
/ Won Plehaye is given by the Bourse
Gazette as Prozef but this Is not con
tirmed by the police, who II satisfied
that they have established the identity
or even the nationality of the murder.
| er, are carefully guarding the facts
perhaps TO throw his accomplices off
the scent.
The general public is disposed to re
gard the crime as intimately connect
| ed with the far-reaching terrorist plot
revealed last summer by the arrest
| of Gerschunin, the Russian revolutions
airy agitator, at Kieff. where he had
| gone TO organize an attempt on the
emperor'3 life at Saroff. during the
ceremonies incident to the cannoni3a.
| tion OF St Seraphim
Subsequent trial established the fact
that Gersehunin was the head of a
murderous conspiracy similar to the
Nihilist conspiracy OF the early sos.
the object of which was to create a
reign of terror ia Russia by killing
ministers, governors and the emperor
himself Gerschunin Is jew and was
4 former petty official at st. Peters
burg
The perpetrators of the murders as
we'll as the victims were to be select
I'd by lot. The series of crimes re-
sulting from this conspiracy began
with the attempt on the life of Privy
Councillor Pobiedoncstseff, chief pro
curator Of the holy synod, who was
fred at by a man named Logowski,
March ~. 1901 and included the kill
ing of NJ Bogdanovitch, ex-governor
general of Ilfa. European Russia, who
was assassinated May 49, 1903; NJ. Bo-
goliepoff, former minister of public in
struction. who was shot by Peter Kar.
povich Feb ~. 1901. and died March
Is of the same year from the effects
OF his wound, and NJ. Slpiaguine, Nj
Won Plehve's predecessor. assassinat
ed April iG, 1902, by student named
Ralmasholf, and the attempts on
Prince obolensky, now governbrgen
eral OF Finland
While governor of Kharkoff, Obolen'
sky was fired at four times, Aug. IL.
1902. The more recent murders OF
Governor, GeneralBobrikoff of Finland
who was shot by Eugene Schaumann
June lG. and of Vice-Governor An1rieif
of Eligabethpool, Trans.Caucassia. as
sassinated July II last, probably were
not connected with the plot.
Gerschunin was captured and he and
two others, one of whom was woman
were tried, convicted and sentenced
TO death, but the emperor, with Won
Plehve's acquiscenee commuted the
sentence to 10 years imprisonment.
Gerschunin is now serving his sen.
tence in Schusselburg prison.
Russian official circlss are upset by
the news.
The car especially is gOrely trou'
bed az he feels that his best efforts
have been employed in alleyiating the
wrongs OF the peas lntry.
Tho funeral of the murdered minis
ter will be held tomorrow with all the |
pomp that the Russian government
can give to it. the purpose being to /
awe the populace as much as possible
There is a feeling everywhere that
Russia is near revolutionary up
heaval and that the government must
take the strongest repressive meas
lres.
The man on whom all eyes are
turned now is NJ Sergius White. for
mer minister Of finance and now
member of the council of the empire.
II is believed be will succeed Won
Plehve.
Madame Plehve. widow of the Dc
ceased statdiman, arrived here to-
lay. She is broken down, but is calm.
rhe sight Of her husbands remains
caused the widow. who suffers from
heart trouble. a shock, and she feli
o the floor in a fainting condition
Doctors revived her and later she went
o the minister's villa on the isisnds
IF the Nova.