Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-06-09

greater intelligence which is to be eX-
pected at the hands of this class in any
attempt to right the wrongs of Russia.
The provocation in this case was ad-
mittedly great. Sergius was perhaps
the most universally hated official of
all Russia. No man can spend $780,,
900 year in pursuit of his own pleas
ure and deserve better than contempt,
and he invites a serious fate if he is
a Russian and is a governor in author
ity and is cruel and arbitrary auto
crat. The grand duke and his wife,
aware of the danger which accom-
panied his every movement, travelled
always under the watchful eyes of the
police, but the police had eyes only for
suspicious" characters.
It was at the request of the secret
police that the grand duchess visited
young Prince Obolenski in his cell on
the day following the tragedy, their at
tempts to secure information having
failed. Her desire that all involved in
the conspiracy by which her husband
lost his life, should be apprehended,
appears to have made her most adroit
at time when grief was uppermost,
or perhaps she was really concerned to
know what her husband could have
done to have incurred the enmity of
another member of the nobility. With
as much composure as she could sum
mon, she asked the assassin: what
have | done that you should wish to
bring upon me such grief?" His an
sver-regret for her sorrow, but insist
ence upon the necessity for his act
was no better than the creed of all
anarchists.
The grand duchess expressed sur
prise that the prisoner, as member of
the aristocracy, should so far forget his
rank and his obligations as to join
with the misguided workmen in an at
tempt to bring about the fall of the
government. She characterized his ac-
ton as unworthy the son of a noble
family. 1t was at this point that Obo-
lensli, not wishing to assume individ-
ual responsibility for his deed, declared
that he was by no means the only one
in high official life who had sworn the
oath of the terrorists. The grand
duchess, realizing that the man was
forgetting his surroundings and might
be led to reveal more, quickly arose
declared that she could Lot listen to
baseless insinuations against the loyal.
ty of men who were still her friends
The ruse succeeded. Obolenski insisted
that he was by no means alone; that
many others of his rank were ready
and waiting the opportunity to com
NIT a similar deed when the interests
of the people should require it.
Unknown to the prince the chief o.
the secret police had overheard tn,
| interview and had had notes taken b.
secretary concealed with him above
the ventilator in the ceiling of the cell
/ Agents of the police were detailed tt
: watch every parsonage who had beer
/ indicated in the interview, and /;
: search was made of the homes ant
personal papers of each. Finally th
l trail led to the headquarters of the ter
3 rorists in Moscow, which was fount
: to be acting in conjunction with tn
: central revolutionary chiefs in London
a On March Is the police surrounded ant
raided the Moscow headquarters AM
e found store of internal machines an
i explosive weapons, together with print
a ing presses and revolutionary docu
0 ments, included among the latter bein
Y a letter to the central committee an
). correspondence relating 10 the assass
+ nation of the Grand Duke Sergius.