The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-03-17
TERRORIST SLAIN
BY HIS own BOMB
INSTRUMENT OF DEATH Elk
PLoDEs PREMATURELY BLOW
ING HIM TO PIECES.
ACCIDENT OCCURS AT A
ST. PETERSBURG HOTEL
Internal Machine of Same Power as
Those Used in Former outrages and
Undoubtedly Intended for Mem
bers of Royalty.

St. Petersburg, March 13.-The ex-
plosion of bomb at the Hotel Bristol,
adjoining the Hotel d'Angleterre, here
just before daylight Saturday merning
blew to atoms the owner of the bomb,
a man with an English passport and
giving the name of Alfred Henry Nc
Cullough, and wrecked the adjoining
rooms, killing the wife of an officer
and ipjuring several other dodgers. The
explosion was heard blocks away and
created a tremendous sensation. Nc
Cullough's legs were torn off and the
flesh of the upper portion of his body
spattered the walls and ceiling, which
were red with blood.
There is not the slightest doubt that
the man killed was connected with
terrorist plots. The bomb was of the
same power as those which killed the
late Minister of the Interior Won Plehve
and Grand Duke Sergius, creating the
same havoc as did the explosion at the
Hotel du Nord last spring. The pre-
1iminary investigation of the police
leads them to believe that Mccullough
was engaged either in packing his eff
fects, as the Hotel Bristol was to be
vacated Saturday, or in preparing for
some desperate enterprise when the
bomb, which, like all the Internal ma
chimes of the terrorists, was provided
with gravity tubes, fell and exploded as
the one at the Hotel du Nord did. The
police Immediately surrounded the no.
tel, mounted gendarmes allowing no
one to within so PAGES.
Victim Terrorist Leader.
An Independent investigation seems
to establish beyond question that the
man killed was terrorist leader. His
passport, of course, was fictitious, but
the man'was foreigner not Russian.
At the Hotel de Paris, where he had
been stopping from time to time since
the middle of January. Mccullough was
described as a very intelligent-looki
man between 80 and 40 years of age,
resembling more Frenchman than an
Englishman, speaking French with the
f1uency of native. He also spoke Eng
lish which, however, he had little &C.
casion to use at the hotel, where he
kept much to himself, going away on
frequent short trips. Just before Grand
Duke Sergius was assassinated the man
was absent for two days, which might
connect him directly with the grand
dukes murder. Mccullough professed
to be engaged in business, but in view
of what has happened his movements
are admitted to have been mysterious.
Some of the police are inclined to
think Mccullough was direct emissary
of the Paris revolutionary organization
At the British embassy and consulate
Mccullough is unknown. 1t is not be-
lieved he was British subject.
Royal Family Terror-Stricken.
The car and the members of his
family are again stricken with ter
Tor by the revelation of plot to kill
either himself, one of the grand dukes
or high government official The
plot was revealed through the prema-
ture explosion of the bomb at the
Hotel Bristol. In the room of the
owner of the bomb, who was killed
was found calendar with black lines
drawn around March II. The discov-
cry has caused the doubling of the
guards around Tsarkoe Selo palace.
already four times the usual number