The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1905-12-08

Secret service om ,Ials and the DO

Secret service OH Jlals and the DO.
lice rushed toward the cinematograph
Some person had insertt d the assassi-
nation views among those which bad
been prepared for the nights enter
ment. II 10 machine was stopped on
the instant and the whole patapher
MALTA, 1t Is reported, was taken.
Trepcff had been trlckeo! He knew
1t In an instant after he had collaps
ed, but too late. The nervous shock
had been administered, the OIL set
lesson blasted home with the picture
OF bomb.
The governor general was more
carried than led from lnc theatre b x
10 his car Irtage. Try as his suite did
TO keep the oatioR pu1 io gtz, from
their master In L. 1, terror and agony,
thay could not, and the authors OF the
plot, to suoH Trepofr moving pic.
ture OF himself being asSassnatei, a,
they had so oflen threatened him,
must have seen that they had been
successful.
Trepttf has resigned, He is an
unnerved man f,r the time at least.
lie will leave ST.. Petersburg to as
| hN OtiO oihOS vi NlfCIE|JI VI Uu0
Imperial Palace at Peterhof. The
Office OF Minister Of Police for the EN-.
pirs Is to be abo!isned. Tne Grand
d Ike Nicholas win likely be appoint
cd TO the military command Of st.
Petersburg.
La preparing the assassination
scahes duplicates were made OF four
Of tho pictures IN the series. In their
Scarcn for the machinery and pic ures
The government Ill ;ialS kGeW nothing
VI them, for they h I'd bean made ana
kept by The N.nilists who had con-
C lcGed and executed the plot. 1t is
IN this manner that these pictures
escaped.
1t was due to the woi d,rful Gun.
ming and skill Of certain students that
the assassination Of Trep, II was pro.
ducsd in picture form before MS eyes.
at SecreJ meetings it was decided
that, while Tfepon was u reasonable
o0jtcG or haired, he was not really
80 bad and deslv,Dg Of assassination
az had been the Graud Duke Sergius
He was m ,rely Lhe too wiling tool of
ohe autocracy. He might be terribly
punished AM some good might follow
To make the plctufcs Of Lhe assas.
sanation was the Ii st thing and then
TO insert them in the roll Of Ii ms
for the perform ance at the theatre
when Trep.lr should be pre- ent was
the other rtq ltSite. The whole mat
ter was left 10 q selected band. In
one end Of wide room scene paint.
ed TO represents Trepoif's mansion
and the driveway before 1t was
hung.
Nev5ki Prospect was represented
and hung in The same manner. The
carriage .ntaining the supposed
Irepotf was driven before 1T, Fig
ures gathered, ono man rushed out
holding an empty bomb with burn3
INK fuse alta had. He threw It,
rnen another scene was made by OK
plodlng some flashing powder In
n&rmless qIanity The next viaw
wa8 mace Oy suspending the carriage
It's wheels being taken oif, in the alr
oy means OF ropes SO painted that
they would not be seen in the pic.
ture.
The carriage was tJken to pieces
and the sections hung In the air bt
fore the same backgrUunl az though
GheY were being clown up. Dismem
bertd d sections OF dummy horses were
scattered around and portions Of dunn
my men were hung conspcously in
the foreground. Ihe bono tnrower
runs from the scene the moment he
hurls the olosive. He is then shown
as btlng Siez3d and arrested.
In spite OF all OF the II Jrts OF the
secret service OF Russia and OF all of
the CZtr'S police the students who
devised and executed the ploJ TO pc.
ture TO TrepOif the invevitable fate
which awaited MIN ii ne continued
uis career, have eScip3d No arresCs
have followed under direct clarge OF
this C.imo for crime 1t is in Russia.
Ihao the plotterS must have had ac-
co ApliCeS among the men in Iarg OF
the state tLeat4eS cine matOgIapn Is
probable, but If they any the Govern
mcnt With It's cunning OF generations
and It's great secret service machinery
mas Tor once beeu completely be III sd.