The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-02-24
BOMB ENDS LIFE OF SERIOUS
UNCLE OF THE GEAR ASSASSIN.
ATED BY TERRORIST.
His Death Had Been Decreed by Rev.
oIutionists in December and Sen.
tende Was Executed at First
Opportunity.

Grand Duke Sergius, uncle Of the
ezar of Russia and leader OF the reac.
tionaries, met terrible death in Mos.
COW shortly before 8 o'clock Friday
afternoon.
The deed was committed by single
terrorist, who threw beneath the car.
riage of the grand duke bomb
charged with the same high powder
explosive which wrought Minister Won
Plehve's death. The missile was
packed with nails and fragments OF
iron, and its explosion tore the i'm
perial victims body to CHASTITY frag.
ments, which strewed the snow for
yards around Every window in the
great, lofty facade of the palace OF
justice was shattered and bits of iron
were imbedded deeply in the walls OF
the arsenal, 100 yards away.
On the snow lay fragments of the
body of Grand Duke Sergius, mingled
with the wreck of the carriage. The
grand dukes head had been torn from
his body and reduced to a shapeless
pulp, and the trunk and limbs were
mangled. A finger bearing
a rich seal ring was found lying sew
eral yards away The crimson tint and
the smell of blood were everywhere.
Only a few fragments of clothing In.
Dictated that the body had been
clothed. The coachman lay moaning
with pain beside deep hole in the
pavement. The horses dragging the
front wheels of the carriage, had
dashed off maddened with pain, to sink
dying before they reached the gate.
The assassin was thrown to the
ground and stunned by the force of the
explosion, but he Immediately rose and
an toward the gate, attempting to
escape. His haste and the blood
streaming from his face where he
lad been wounded by fragments of the
,omb attracted the attention of a ser.
,eant of police, who seized him before
le could draw a revolver.
The man did not deny his crime, but,
N the contrary, gloried in it's success.
lie expressed his satisfaction that he
lad been able to kill the grand duke
without involving the duchess. He
vowed his membership in the Social |
organization, but re-
used to give his name, and at the Jail
is papers were found to be forged.
The assassin belongs to the noted
fighting group" of the socialist revo-
ltionary party, Which has removed
Their prominent officials and long
ince passed a sentence of death upon
rand Duke Sergius.
The grand duke is understood to
ave been condemned to death by the
party in December last.
he governor generalship of Moscow
as abolished early in the year, and
le grand duke, according to dis
atches from Moscow January 4, kept
losely to the well-guarded Biskou-
,hny palace, on the outskirts of Mos
DIV, retaining his position as COM
of the military dis
let. Later in Janaury, however, it
as announced that the grand duke
ad sought refuge in one of the pal
ces of the Kremlin. He has been ,
assed as the most reactionary mem
er of the imperial family, at the
cad of what is referred to as the war +,
arty, and has been sigmatized by the
berals as Russia's evil genius /,
Grand Duke Sergius was born in ,
'57, and was married in 1884 to Prin- .
sss Elizabeth of Hesse-Darmstadt. ,
hey have no children. :