Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-18
A TERROR|ST'S VICTIM
Further Details of Grand
Duke Sergius' Murder.
IDENTITY OF ASSASSIN
BELONGS TO FIGHTING GROUP"
OF SOCIAL REvoLUTIONISTS.
Scenes and Incidents of the Tragic
Assassination in Moscow Yes
terday-Crime Admitted.
IDENTITY OF ASSASSIN

Within the walls of the far-famed krem-
lin Palace at Moscow, and almost under
meath the historical tower from which ivan
the Terrible watched the heads of his en-
enies falling beneath the AK 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 EN-
peror Nicholas. and the chief of the reac-
tfonaries, met a terrible death shortly be-
fore 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, as re-
ported in The Star yesterday. The deed
was committed by a single terrorist, who
threw beneath the carriage of the grand
duke bomb charged with the same nigh
power explosive which wrought Minister
Won Plehve's death.
The missile was packed with nails and
fragments of iron, and its explosion tore
the imperial victims body to CHASTITY frag-
ments, which strewed the snow for yards
around. Every window inNthe great, lofty
facade of the palace of justice was shat-
tered, and bits of iron were 1mbedded
deeply In the walls of the arsenal, nun
dred yards away.
The assassin belongs to the noted Flight
ing Group" of the socialist revolutionary
party, which has removed other promlnent
officials and long since passed sentence OF
death upon Grand Duke Sergius. The grand
duke knew that he stood in the shadow OF
death. He was the recipient of repeated
taken to insure his safety; but all the re-
sources of the gendarmerie, secret police ana
soldiers proved unavailing against an at
tack almost exactly duplicating the pro-
cedure that caused the death of Minister
of the Interior Won Plehve last July.
The Irony of Fate.
1t was the irony of fate that Sergius.
after taking refuge in his country villa
during the strike troubles of month ago
and later seeking even more secure shelter
in the palace within the Kremlin walls,
should be killed while proceeding to the
governor generals palace beyond ta walls
which he had abandoned to enable the
police to better protect him.
Grand Duchess Elizabeth, who has been
engaged daily In the task of preparing
comforts for the sick and wounded Russian
soldiers in Manchuria, was about to drive
to the palace to join her husband. When
she heard of what had befallen the grand
duke she was driven in haste to the scene
of the tragedy and knelt hatless and coat
less on the bloodstained snow, and muir
INJURED prayers for the welfare OF the soul
of her slain consort.
The scene of the crime was the great open
triangle within the kremlin, bounded by
the arsenal, treasury and courts of justice,
in one angle of. which is the Nicholas. or
little palace where the grand duke dwelt
At the opposite corner is the Nikolsky gate
the exit to the town beyond the ramparts
few minutes before the bell of the gate
sounded the hour of o'clock, the equlpage
of the grand duke emerged from the gates
of the palace and proceeded, followed by
sleighs containing secret police. 1t swept
at smart pace toward the gate, passing
the Choudeff Cloister, Ivan's Tower, the
great Car bell and long rows of cannon
captured from Napoleon in the winter re-
treat of 1872.