The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-08
REFUSES TO TALK
ABOUT HIS CRIME
Assassin of Procurator General o.
Finland Identified.
HIS WOUNDS NOT FATAL
rs STRONG, HANDSOME Art
POPULAR.

4 lEISINGFERS, Finland, Feb. THE
assassin of Soslason Soininen. pro
curator general of Finland, who
shot and killed yesterday at his resi-
dence by a young man dressed in an
officers uniform, has been identified as
Earl Lenard Hohenthal formerly d
student at the Imperial Alexander uni
Versity here. Hohenthal. who iatterly
had lived in Stockholm. returned to
Finland Jan. Is. He maintains obstin-
ate silence under examination. Senator
Alderman, who has assumed the duties
of prOcurator of the senate. is direct
ing the investigation of the crime The
wounds inflicted on the assassin by the
son of Soininen are not of a dangerous
character.
The assassin was removed today from
the surgical hospital to the Russian
military hospital, where ne lies not
fully conscious It was at first thought
that his comatOse condition was the
result of a drug. but his head was
badly injured while he was being
dragged down stairs after the murder.
Maintains Silence.
Hohenthal recovered consciousness
this afternoon, but no deposition has
been taken, as he steadfastly refuses
to answer questions. His injuries are
slight, the broken leg being the most
serious. He evidently was actuated by
the widespread condemnation of
Soininens failure as Drocurator gen.
eral TO guard the ancient laws of Fin
land and by his general Russophile
policy. Soininen Cor as the Firms, ignor-
ing the imperial patent Of nobility
granted i'm 1904, prefer to call him.
Johnson, was openly censured In the
diet in December and a demand made
for the suppression of his activity Con-
Servative Firms fear that the assassf-
Ia mr. ind fpf al fnrsf
upon the report which Emperor
Nicholas ordered the senate and gov
ernor general to draw up on the diets
petition of rights; but it is impossible
TO predict what the effect will be on
the ultimate action on this petition.
Activity of Police.
This latest political crime, following
the January demonstration, has caused
the police TO redoubIe their .precau-
tons The Journal Bjorsnbergs It'd
ings was suspended today. but this
had no direct connection with the as
SaSSiaatiOn.
HohenthaI is strong and handsome.
% years old and a native of Laiha
near Vasa, in northeastern Finland.
whence the family of Eugene Sehau-
mann, who assassipated Bobrikoff
originated. The northeastern Firms
are notorious fighters. Scarcely Sun
day passes without stabbing affair in
the country between Uleaborg and
Vasa.
Son of a Minister.
Hohenthal's father was a pastor of
Laiha. The assassin left Helsingfors
university a couple of years ago with
out terminating the medical course
and took up massage as a means of
livelihood. He recently returned here
from Stockholm and went To St
Petersburg, where it is believed he
formed revolutionary ties The uni
form worn by the assassin in order TO
avert suspicion was an imitation of a
Russian naval officer, and the card he
presented bore the name of Alexander
Gadd. a well known Finn serving In
the Russian navy y relative of the
latter who was summoned to the hos
pital did not recognize the wounded
man. The police found clue to his
identity in the initials engraved on the
assassin's watch.
Assassin is Popular.
The correspondent of the Associated
Press met a friend of Hohenthal who
spoke in the highest terms of him. He
was popular among his fellow students