The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-01
VLADIMIR IS
 NEXT VICTIM Marked For Death by thc Fighting Socialists. A BOLD NOTICE POSTED Family and Household Are
 Terr0rized. Marlin Gorky Said to Have Been sEs- eortsd" by Government te ster-
 gia--Author Is Grateful
 for Sympathy.
\ BOLD NOTICE POSTED

St, Petersburg, Feb. 2s.-The utteK impotency of the police in the face of the terrorist organization Is shown by the increasing boldness of the latter all over St. Petersburg. Even on ths public streets notice of Grand Duke sergius' death was found. They reads
 ''The sentence of death passed upou sergius Aiexandrovitch was executed February 17th.
 (Signed.l
 "The Fighting Organization of The so~
 cial Democratic Party"
 Moreover, the notices were neatly printed, a thing unknown in the days of the late Interior Minister Won Plehve, when similar notices were ai- ways run off on copying machines. The secret police were then too close on the heels of the terrorists 70 per- init the use of a printing press. 5 The Grand Duchess Marie Paviovnns whose husband the Grand Duke viadt- mir isehighest on the list of those con- demned to death. Is trying to shield his life with her own. Since Red Sun- day the grand duke has not only been showered with threats and warnings but has twice received from abroad formal letters signed by different groups informing him of his sentenca to death and of the men to execute It. At the same time Grand Duchess Marie like the Grand Duchess Elizabeth In the case of Grand Duke Sergius was notified that her life and her sons and srandsons would be spared and stn was appealed to not to go abroad in her husbands company.
 Family Terrorised.
 The letters naturally terrorixed the family and household of the grand duke who has aged greatly during the
 
 what he insists is the unjust criticism which placed the responsibility of the bIoodshed of January 23 wholly on his shoulders. Although the grand dukes health had been failing for over a year he is now almost complete wreck For time the entreaties of his family and the warnings of the police suficed palace. but since the funeral of Grand Duke sergius, Grand Duke Vladimir has shaken of restraint declaring that he refuses to show cowardice and not only drives out in a Yclosed carriage but on Sunday walked for short time up and down the quay in front of the winter palace. At his side, however, on each occasion was Grand Duchess Marie Pavlovna. The grand duke tries to elude her but she insists upon being immediately appraised if he is going out. donning wraps and accompanyfng him.
 Today Grand Duke Vladimir received a letter from one group which had previously warned him saying his sen> tence was temporarily suspended which is attributed either to more correct apprisement of his share in the events of January 22d or to a general decision of the terrorists to give the autocfat a breathing spell and await the result of the assassination of Grand Duke Sergius./ The latter coincides with the views of those acquainted with the methods of the terrorists who point out that a succession of assassinations would defeat their object by compel1- ing the Emperor in the interest of the safety of the imperial family to thrust aside all question of concession and to sanction the most drastic measures of repression.