Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-02-24
UNCLE OF The CAR
KILLED BY A BOMB
Grand Duke Ssrguis, Who Was CALEB
the Evil Genius Of Russia.
WITHIN WALLS OF The KREMLIN.
A Bomb Exploded Beneath the Carriage OF
the Grand Duke, Who Had Been Condemned
to Death BY the Revolutionary Party
Others Marked to Share His Fate Unless
Conditions Change.

Moscow (By Cable).-Grand Duke
Sergius was assassnatcd here Friday.
While the Grand Duke was driving
from the Nicholas Palace through the
Senate quarter his carriage was followed
by two cabs.
AT the Law Courts sleigh in which
were two men, one of whom was dressed
as a workman, went quickly ahead OF
the Grand Dukes carriage. The sleigh
then slowed up to allow the carriage to
pass, and at that moment a bomb was
thrown beneath the. carriage.
The force Of the explosion broke all
the windows of the Law Courts, and
the report was heard outside the city.
The carriage was blown to pieces, moth
ing but the four wheels remaining. The
horses were not hurt, and boted.
The Grand Duke was instantly killed.
His head was blown off and his body
frightfully mangled. The coachman was
also killed He was so frightfully burn
ed by the explosive with which the bomb
was charged that he died while being
taken to a hospital.
On the arrest of the murderers, neither
OF whom was known to the police, one
OF them coolly said:
Il don't care. | have done my job.
An immense crowd gathered at the
spot and made demonstration against
| a number of students who commenced
scattering revolutionary proclamatlons.
Within few minutes after the explo-
sion people might have been seen GATH
ering up pieces of wood and clothing as
menlentoes of the tragedy
When the Grand Duchess Elizabeth,
widow of Sergius, was informed OF the
occurrence she went to the scene with
out waiting to put on hat or cloak.
The gates of the Kremlin were closed
as soon as the news of the ASSASSINATION
was conveyed to the authorities. and the
remains of the Grand Duke were taken
to the Nicholas Palace.
ST. Petersburg (By Cable The news
of the tragedy in which Grand Duke
Sergius was blown TIP created ire
mendous sensation i'll st. Petersburg,
where the announcement arrived during
the afternoon.
The tragedy in reality was no great
surprise, as it was known that the ter
rorists had already condemned the Grand
Duke to death, and ever since the al
fair OF January % the Inauguration OF
bomb-throwing campaign had been an
| ticipatcd.
The news of the assassination Of the
Grand Duke reached Tsarskoe Selo
while the Imperial family was entertain
ing Prince Frederick Leopold of Prus-
STA 1t created the greatest consterna-
! ton The Emperor is reported to have
been completely Frustrated. All festivi-
ties in honor of the Prussian guest were
at once abandoned.
Ambassador Mccormick and the other
Ambassadors drove TO the Palace 10 ex-
press their official condolences, also leav-
ing their cards at the palaces of the va
rious members of the imperial family
| AT the time sentence of death was
pronounced by the terrorists upon Grand
Duke Sergius it was reported that Grand
Duke Alexis, Procurator of the Holy
Synod Pobiedonostseff and General Ire
poff. then Chief of Police of Moscow
and now Governor General OF St. Peters
burg, were also condemned to death,
and, according to some reports, a SINH
lar sentence was imposed upon the Dow
ager Empress, Maria Feodorovna.
London (By Cable An carly Reuter-
dispatch had it that all explosion had oc
Cured at the Kremlin, where the. Grand
Duke Sergius has been residing and
that it was rumored that the Grand