The San Francisco call., 1905-03-21
Fifteen : Year Old Assassin
Seriously Wounds the En-
peror's Official Representa-
tive in a Finnish District
BEREZINA'S CHIEF
OF POLICE KILLED
Squadrons of Dragons Dis
patched to the Town to
Suppress Armed Rising of
the Jewish Population

! RORISOE. European Russia, March
20.-Three squadrons of dragons have
started for BereZina, where armed
Jews are reported To have killed the
Chief of Police and a number of his
assista nts.
VIBORG, Finland, March 20.-Gov-s
ernor Miasdorff was shot and seriously
wounded to-day by a boy. The assas
sin, who is about Is years old. OBJ
tanned an entrance to the Governors
; Office and fired three times at him.
one bullet inflicting a serious wound
and the others slightly wounding the
Governors legs.
The Governors clerks and secretary
were unable 70 stop the would be
assassin. who reached the street.
where, however, he was arrested with
out struggle. The Governors condi-
tion is critical.
The youth who shot the Governor
has been identified as Mallie Hjalmar
Reinikke He admits that he is rev.
olutionist He halls from Kurikke
parish, in the northwestern part of
Finland, but recently has been living in
Stockholm to avoid arrest on account
of his known revolutionary ideas He
returned four days ago to Finland by
way of Tornea and spent three days in
Viborg, but declines to reveal his stop
ping place.
Governor Miasoredoff has been most
energetic in the classification of Fin
land, and memorials have been sent to
the estates petitioning his removal on
account of his alleged illegal methods
and the general conditions in his pro-
vince, which were pronounced to be in
tolera BILE.
At 8 o'clock in the afternoon Rein
like gained access to the Governors
cabinet and fired shot from the
threshold Then, advancing, he fired
twice more, after which he jumped un-
der the Governors writing table and,
with his pistol, held up the clerks who
were rushing in and managed to reach
the street. Secretary Markoff, who
followed him, summoned assistance.
and the would-be assassin was cap
tured. Reinikke, who lost one of his
arms recently in railway accident,
when asked If his name was Reinikke,
replied:
THE police of Helsingfors know me,
my motive and thelGovernor's record"
The crime was committed with an
automatic pistol of the same type as
the one with which Hohenthal assassi
mated Soisalon Soininen, the Procura-
tor General of Finland, on February g.
ST. PETERSBURG, March 81, 2:17 a.
Nippon the Quietude of the Manchu-
rian situation there has burst the news
of the attempted assassination of an
other high official in Finland, whose
efforts for the classification of the
grand duchy have exposed him to the
vengeance of the young Fennomans
The incident indicates that the revolu-
tionists have not abandoned the policy
of terrorism, but are determined to
have more blood, and presages further
crimes of a like nature.
The authorities here are drawing up
Af .t-%~-
forms for Finland with a view to re-
establishing order and diminishing ra-
cial antagonisms.
CHITA, East Siberia, March 90
! Though the railroad mems strike on
the section of the Siberian line east of
Lake Baikal has ceased, the telegraph
operators have now stopped work, de-
manding an increase in wages. Police
men and other state employees are be-
ing employed to replace the strikers.