The Tupelo journal., 1905-02-24
BY THE BOMB OF A
REVOLUT|ON|ST
Grand Duke, Sergius, the Russian
Tyrant, Laid Low in Moscow.
LITERALLY BLOWN TO PIECES
The Assassin, Watching His Oppor-
%tunity, Hurled His Bomb Di-
rectIy Beneath the Grand
Dukes Carriage.

Oh the 1ar-1dmeu hrelnlln palace, anu
almost underneath the historical tow
er from which Ivan the Terrible
watched the heads of his enemies fall
ing beneath the axe on the famous red
square, and within a stones throw of
the great bell of Moscow, Grand Duke
Sergius, uncle and brother-in-law of
Emperor Nicholas and the chief of the
~reactionaries, met a terrible death
shortly before three o'clock Friday
afternoon. The deed was committed
by a single terrorist, who threw be-
meath the carriage of the grand duke
a bomb charged with the same high
power explosive which wrought Min
lister Won Plehve's death. The missile
was packed with nails anu fragments
of iron, and its explosion tore the M
perial victims body TO ghastly fras-
ments, which strewed he snow for
yards around. Every window in the
great lofty facade of the palace OF JUS
tice was shattered and bits Of iron
were imbedded deeply in the walls of
the arsenal,
Grand Duke Sergius died under a
formal sentence passed by the Mos
COW terrorists, December II, 1904.
BY the same decree of death Gar
Nicholas. the Dowager Czarina, Ma
ria Feodorovna, Grand Duke Alexis,
P~rocurator of the Holy Synod Po-
bicdonostseG. GOv.-Gen. Trep3f. of
st. Petersburg, and Minister of the
n,l:,,, nr, .nn.IannaI
The murderer of Grand Duke Sergius
was badly injured by the same eXplo-
sion which killed his victim. He and
a companion were arrested.
What does it matter?' said the
wounded man, lightly. I've done my
work"
Assassin Follows Victim.
The Grand Duke Sergius was fol-
lowed by his assassin for some time be-
fore q favorable opportunity offered for
the hurting of the fatal bomb.
Sergius was driving, at the time OF
his death, from the Nicholas palace to
the Kremlin. where he has lived for
several weeks past. Behind his car
riage, as it passed through the senate
quarter, were two cabs.
Just in front of the law courts a
sleigh suddenly drew across the road
in front of the grand duke, forcing his
coachman to pull up.
AS he did so one of the cabs shot
forward and a man, jumping to his feet
and leaning well forward, hurled the
bomb directly under the grand dukes
carriage.
The explosion broke every window
in the law courts. The carriage was
torn to fragments. The grand duke
was thrown high in the air. HIS
coachman was so badly injured that ne
died on the way to the hospital.
Widow Hastens to Scene.
The instant she was told of her hus,
bands death, the Grand Duchess
Elizabeth fastened to the scene OF his
: assassination, O even stopping to pu'
on a hat or cloak.
Unlike her husband, who was among
, the most bitterly hated of the Russian
T, a~ristocrats, the grand duchess IS falr'
: ly w~orshipped by the people.
She has recently received severa
, warnings never to appear with th'
grand duke, proving conclusively, thu
authorities say, that his murder wa:
planned weeks ahead.
1t is a significant fact that Serg1us
assassination was carried out IN al
l most the same manner as that OF The
, late Minister of the Interior Vol
Plehve.
Following the murder the GROVE
I made a demonstration against a mum
l her of students, who instantly begar
> to scatter revolutionary literature. a
l large number of students were ar
rested.
, One of the assassins was arrested by
= a policeman, who overlook him as III
: was running from the scene OF the as
~sassination. The man carried a revol
yer. but made no attempt to use 1t
He expressed qualification that tn
Grand Duchess Elizabeth was not &C
companying her husband, Grand Duk'
: Sergius, when the duke was Killed
At the moment of the explosion,
Grand Duchess Elizabeth was at The
: Kremlin, experimenting work Tor tn
wounded at the front, and was abou
to proceed to the residence Of the gov
: ernor general, expecting to meet he
husband there. Her carriage wa
waiting outside the Kremlin. Prayers
= for the murdered grand duke were helc
later in the evening, Grand Duchess
y Elizabeth and civil and military Off
ce-s being present.
The body of Grand Duke Sergiui
will be buried in the cathedral OF tn
fortress of Saints Peter and Paul.
{ The extra newspapers %announc TIT
death of Grand Duke Sergius by thu
explosion of a bomb, but give no de
tails.
l. The body will probably lie in stat
several days in the church Of the AS
1 cension in the Kremlin. where Emper
) or Nicholas was crowned. Thence
will be brought to st. Petersburg ant
: placed in the Romanoff mausoleum II
the great cathedral of Saints Peter an
Paul, inside the fortress.
! THE NEWS RECEIVED AT LODE.
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