Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-08-04
KILLED BY A BOMB
RUSSIAN MINISTER OF THE IN.
TERROR is AssAsslNATED.
WAS ON HIS WAY TO SEE CAR
Assassin Makes Attack Upon officer
on Busy Thorouehfare Of City
Coaehman Also Killed and the
Horses Fatally Wounded.

Horses Fatally Wounded.
ST. Observation-Disclosures OF
the Interior Won Plehve was assassin.
ated while driving to the Warsaw sta
ton to visit the Peterhof.
A bomb vas thrown under the min.
listers carriage, completely shattering
Il. NJ. Won Plehve was terribly man.
gled The crime was committed at 10
o'clock.
The coachman was killed, and the
wounded and maddened horses dashed
wildly away with the front wheels of
the carriage, the only portion of the
vehicle remaining intact. Immediate
ly there ensued a scene of the widest
confusion. Police and gendarmes --Sr-
ried up from every direction and vast
crowds gathered about the spot where
the manged body of the minister lay
welttering in his blood.
The Associated Press correspondent
was at the scene of the tragedy within
five minutes after 1t occurred. NJ. Won
Plehves shockingly mangled body was
lying in the middle of the road. 1t had
been partially covered with a police
officers overcoat, with the left arm,
the bone of which was broken OF,
projecting. A policeman came up and
raised the overcoat In order to rear
range It, revealing for an instant the
strong features of the dead minister,
whose head was battered almost be-
yond recognition.
The roadway was Gtrewn for 100
yards with the wreckage Of the car
riage, and pieces of the red lining of
the minister's official overcoat. A few
yards from NJ Won Plehve's body lay
shapeless heap of the coachman's re-
mains.
NJ. Won Plehve was said to be on his
way to visit the emperor The trag-
edy occurred on the Zalakonsh pros
pect, a broad thoroughfare leading up
to the Warsaw depot, where the road
turns sharply to the left toward the
Baltic railroad station. The exact
spot at which the outrage occurred is
just before the bridge spanning the
circular canal, on the other side of
which both stations are situated.
The bomb thrower must have known
perfectly well that Minister Won
Plehve would pass the spot, for the
minister makes his report to the en-
peror every Thursday.
The Internal machine was thrown
with deadly accuracy, and the assassin
was favored by the fact that the traffic
here is always of the heaviest, owing
to the crossing of lines of surface cars
and the continuous stream of heavy
trucks. M. Won Plehve was always
apprehensive of attempts upon his
| life, and used to drive as rapidly as
possible. The coachman. however,
was COMPELLED to go slow at this
point.
evidently foresaw this circumstance,
and while the minister's coachman
slowed down, threw the bomb. The
explosion was terrific, and practically
annihilated the woodwork of the car
riage. The horses tore off, dragging
the axle and the front wheels. The
animals, though infuriated by the
wounds they had sustained, had not
galloped far before they fell, with
pools Of blood under them.
1t is reported that six men are i'm
plication and that five of them fled
into little hotel adjoining the scene
of the assassination, and only one,
who was wounded, having been cap.
tured The hotel was surrounded by
the police and all its inmates were
arrested.
The wounded man, who is said tc
be Jew, was taken to the Alexan.
der hospital, so dazed as to be unable
to speak. His condition was account
ed for by the fact that he took poison
Immediately after throwing the bomb