Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-12-10
Won PLEHVE'S DEATH
Russia Torn by Social Re
volutionaries.
A CHAPTER OF CRIMES REVEALED.
Socialist Organization Condemned
Minister to Assassination and Was
Responsible For Murder of
other OmciaIs.


ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 1O.-The
Indictment upon which Sasoneff, the
assassin of Minister Of the Interior
Won Plehve, and Sikorifsky, his accom-
plice, will be tried ON Tuesday next is
n formidable document, reciting the his
tory of the assassination plot and de
tails of the crime and revealing for the
first time interesting facts about the
accused and confessions made by them,
winding up with the formaF charge.
The document, which has been shown
to q correspondent, states that both
Sasoneff and Slkorifsky belonged to Il
fighting organization of social revolu-
tionaries, tie central committee of
which was organized abroad in 1902
and the organ of which was RevOlu-
tionary Russia. The object of the or
ganiZation was to overthrow the au-
tocracy and replace it with a repub-
Iican socialistic regime. The document
describes the Il in which the par
ty organized secret circles for the dis
tribution of proclamations among the
peasants, stirring up university stu
dents, fomenting agrarian disturb
qnces, melting soldiers to mutiny and
also preaching terrorism and the muir
der of statesmen who sustained the au-
socracy and took steps to suppress po-
iitical disturbances. 1t lays the muir
ders of Sipiaguine, Won Plehye's prede-
cessor in the office Of minister of the
interior, and B~osdanovitch, governor
general Of Ufa, and the attempts Oh
the lives of Prince John Ooolensky,
governor general of Finland, II 20
b~edonostseff, p%rocurator general of the
holy synod, at the door of the fighting
organization, which, the document
says, condemned Won Plehve to death
500 after his appointment. The ffst
attempt IN Won Plehve's life was frus-
trated by the accidental explosion Oh
April 10 at the Hotel du Nord, By
which Pokatiloff was blown up with n
bomb similar to the one that killed
Won Plehve.
The execution of Won Plehve's death
sentence, the indictment says, was then
undertaken by Sasoneff, aged twenty
five, formerly a student at the Moscow
university and the son of a merchant
of Brisk, and Samuel Levi Sikorifsky,
aged twenty, a leather worker of Kny-
shin, in the province of GrodnO. Saso-
neff had been twice tried for treason
able offences, first in 1900 and, again i'll
1902. On the latter occasion he was ex-
lied to Siberia for five years, but es-
capped abroad on his way into exile.
The Indictment then describes in de-
tail the murder of Won Plehve and his
coachman, Fillipoff; how Sasoneff. was
stationed in front of the Warsaw hotel
and Sikorifsky beyond the canal bridge,
and says the bomb struck the carriage
between Won Plehve and the coach
man, killing both and injuring eleven
others.
Sikorifsky, having ascertained that
Won Plehye was dead, proceeded to Os-
troff, where he took a boat, telling the
boatman to row out near the Baltic
works. where the battleship Slava was
anchored. He threw his bomb into the
river. and the boatman thought he was
attempting to blow up the Slava. Al
though the boatman was offered 10
rubles. he put in shore and insisted
upon handing over -Sikorifsky to the
police. This incident gave rise to the
report that an attempt had been made
to destroy the Slava.