The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-07-28
JEW BUTCHERIES
LAID TO VICTIM
Kishinef Massacre Declared to
Have Been Planned by Won
Plehve.
THOUSANDS EXILED
TO SIBERIAN MINES
Pitiless Foe Of Russian Radicals
Falls Vengeance Of Jews
: Seen in Crime,
GEAR MARKED FOR DEATH
Special to The Journal.

Geneva, July 2s.-RussIan revolutonists
here are JubIlant over the death OF Won
Plehve. 1t Is asserted there IL a wide.
spread revolutionary plot on foot, tho
most formidable slnoe the assassination Of
Gear Alexander II. The blacklist Includes
the governors OF Russian provinces and
the minister. The car was not Included
In the list originally, as he was regarded
as weak but amIabIe. Now, however, he,
too, has been added to the list.
st. Petersburg, July 2S.-Minister
of Interior Won Plehve was assassin
ated this morning while driving to
the Baltic station to visit the Peterhof.
A bomb was thrown under the minis
1t. M. Won Plehve was terribly
M. Won Plehve's assassin is now
said to be Jew, who thus far has
declined to give his name.
The crime was committed at 10
o'clock. The coachman was killed
and the wounded and maddened
front wheels of the carriage.
Immediately there ensued a scene
of the widest confusion.
Police and gendarmes hurried up
from every direction and vast crowds
gathered about the spot where the
lldl1S1Su UOuy Ol Tie minister lay
weltering in his blood.
The Associated Press correspondent
was at the scene of the tragedy with
In i've minutes after it occurred.
T M. Won Plehve's shockingly man
gled body was lying in the middle OF
cred wttha police oyercoat with the
left arm, the bone OF which was brok-
en- off, projecting.
A policeman came up and raised
the overcoat in order to rearrange it,
revealing for an instant the strong
features Of the dead minister, whose
head was battered almost beyond
recognition.
The roadway was strewn for a
hundred yards with the wreckage Of
the carriage and pieces Of the red linz
ing Of the minister's official overcoat.
A few yards from M. Won Plehve's
body lay "a shapeless heap Of the
coachman's remains.
M. Won Plehve was on his way to
visit the emperor when the tragedy
occurred.
A report is current here that the
assassin of Minister Won Plehve is
woman. The assassin was arrested.
The tragedy occurred on the ZalaI-
konski Prospect, a broad thorofare
leading UP to the Warsaw depot.
whence the road turns sharply to the
left to the Baltic railroad station. The
bombthrower must have known well
that Minister Won Plehve would pass
the spot this morning, for the min
lister makes his report to the emperor
every Thursday morning.
Deadly Accuracy.
The Internal machine was thrown
with deadly accuracy and the assassin
was favored by the fact that traffic
here is always of the heaviest, owing
fo he 5,,cr NF two oP 20
and. the continuous stream Of heavy
trucks. M. Won Plehve was always
apprehensive Of attempts upon his life
and used to drive rapidly. The coach.
man, however, was compelled to go
slow at this point.
The assassin. in laying his plans. evil
IDENTIFY foresaw this circumstance, and
while the minister's coachman slowed
down, threw the bomb. The explosion
was terrific and practically annihilated
the carriage. The minister's servant,
who was also on the carriage box, was
badly wounded, and two officers who
were driving by in a cab were injured
himself was wounded in one eye. He
took to flight.
The project Of police notified the
emperor Of the tragedy Immediately
upon Its occurrence.
The emperor, who was at the Villa
affected by the news, coming as 1t did
atop the bad tidings from the seat of
war, fears Of International complica-
tions and the strain incident upon the
hourly expectation Of an event SO close
to the fathers heart. The emperor
almost broke 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 voiced everywhere.
Waited for Coroner.
Guarded by police, the body re-
NAMED 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 en-
pire the law requiring that this for
mality had to be observed before the
remains could be removed. After this
official had viewed the body 1t was
placed in carriage, covered by a robe
and was driven slowly to a little
chapel adjoining the railroad station
and then to Won Plehve's magnificent
Of the interior.
The carriage, surrounded by
mounted gendarmes, passed thru the
crowded streets, the sidewalks being
a solid mass of people. The cross
streets were black with spectators for
blocks.
The first hurried investigation OF
| the police seems to connect the crime
with the plot which was frustrated by
the explosion at the Hotel du Nord
April IS, in which Kazanhoff, one Of
the conspirators, was killed by the
accidental explosion Of an Internal
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