Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-31
St. Petersburg Officials Busy
Watching Suspects.
MANY CONSPIRACIES
FEARED ANOTHER TRAGEDY MAY
OCCUR AT ANY MOMENT.
It is Believed That Organizations Have
Agents at Geneva and Paris
Vitims Marcked.

ST. PETERSBURG, March 31.-The au-
thorites continue to find evidence of ter
rorist activity in ST. Petersburg, and in
spite of the precautions of the police, an
other tragedy may occur at any moment
The fighting organization is known to have
on its condemned list thirty persons headed
by Grand Duke Alexis and Governor Gen.
eral Trepoff, but the police although they
Eave arrested several persons with bombs
in their possession and have taken many
suspects into custody, have been completely
baffied in their efforts to discover the in
visible hand which is directing the cam
pagn of the terrorist.
The police theory continues to be that
the central organizations of those engaged
in the conspiracies are at Geneva and in
Paris and that the men arrested in Russia
are agents selected to execute the sentences
When arrested these agents invariably are
true to their oaths and refuse to divulge
anything, no matter to what ordeal they
are subjected
Foiled Plot to Kill Trepoff.
Only yesterday the police by chance foiled
what is believed to have been a plot to
kill Governor General TrepoT. According
to the latest details of the affair a man
was observed during the morning lounging
at the corner of Great Morskaia street
Gen. Trepoff's cfancellory.
The man attracted no attention at first
as he wore the red cap which is the
distinctive mark of the employees of the
messenger company, whose messengers
stand at every street corner, but at last
policeman, noticing that the mans face was
not familiar to him, approached the sup
posed messenger with the object of in
terrogating him. The man thereupon be-
came alarmed, drew revolver and fired at
he hfIf TpiC CA1 Nh.aY
man then overpowered his assailant and
arrested him.
Several Bombs Found.
Almost at the same hour that the bogus
messenger was being arrested on Great
Morskaia street. the police, who have been
keeping sharp lookout at the hotels
and lodging houses discovered several
bombs of the terrorist pattern In a trunk
belonging to a stranger who occupied a
furnished room in house in Pushxin
street, but who was absent at the time
The police searched his apartment. The
man was promptly taken into custody
when he returned, and last night two in
diviCuals who called to see him were also
arrested
All the prisoners declined to give any
account of themselves. Although the police
reticent refusing to furnish any in
formation or give the names of the pris-
cnerS, the two incidents, the arrest Of
the man on Great Morskaia street AMI
the finding of the bombs, are undoubtedly
corrected.
The man captured by the police on Great
Morskaia street probably was on the look
out for some mark by which to dstin-
guish General Trepoffs carriage, as sew
eral vehicles of the same style are con-
stantly before the government generals
chancellory, and when he drives out they
circle around and leave in different direc-
tions so that it is almost impossible in the
confusion to determine definitely which
carriage contains the governor general.
1t is said that General Trepoff a fortnight
ago received a letter informing him that
this ruse was unavailing, as he would be
killed in his bed.
Peasants Demand Monastery.
Five hundred peasants of the district of
Vardiza, in the Caucausus, have surround
ed the Greek monastery at Vardiza and
demand that it be handed over to them
with the title deeds