The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1905-04-01
VICTIM NUMBER 8
WARSAW POLICE CHIEF HIT
AaBY THE BOMB AND SE-
RIOUSLY WOUNDED,

O1ioA Voh AolhSu " ds oh w dy w
Station When Hit-Six Off.
/ GERS Hurt There-Bomb
Was Thrown in His
Carriage-Assas-
sin Kills Pur-
Warsaw, March 26.-A bomb.
was thrown into the carriage of
Baron Won Nolken, chief OF police
of Warsaw, at s o'clock this eve-9
ming. 1t was reported that the bar
on was severely wounded.
Warsaw, March 26.-According
to latest information. the attack on
Baron Won Nolken was the result of
an elaborate conspiracy Of the rev.
olutionary party. Shortly before 8
o'clock tonight an elegantly-dress-
ed man went to the police station
at Praga, a large suburbof Warsaw,
on the other side of the Vistula,.
and threw a bomb into the court
yard of the station, wounding seven
persons, two Of them dangerously.
The man started to run away but
was caught by the aaptain Of the
i police. He was found to be q Jew,
But his identity has not been dis
covered.
A telephone message was imme.
diately sent to Baron Won Nolken
at t 8 City Hall, informing him of
the outrage. Baron Won Nolken,
accompanied by a police official,
took a carriag and started imme-
diately for Praga.
When passing. the castle where
| the governor general resides a man
standing on the pavement threw a
I, bomb at the carriage. Baron Won
4 NoIken, who was sitting on the side
4 nearest the assailant, received the
fl1l ebarqa Of the bembs while kjs
, companion escaped IN hurt. Z.
, coachman was thrown from the
box and the carriage was demolish-
ed.
Baron Won Noiken was removed
/ to the City Hall and doctors were
summoned, who found be had lie.
!. ceived injuries on the head, neck,
arm and leg, which are believed tl
!, be serious. &c.
Meantime the police official &C
companyiDg Baron Won Nolken saw
, the bomb thrower fleeing and pur.
, sued and caught up with him, bn,
! the criminal proved the stronger
, and tore himself rway. Another
! policeman fred twice after him
/ without result. Half an hour later
a man, whom the police believe Il
!, be the bomb thrower, was found
, dead in Sowia street. The police
, think the man shot himself to es
i cape arrest.
] A girl, who was passing the spol
when the bomb was thrown, wat
wounded by splinters, and was tax
en- to the hospital.
Il According to the theory Of tbs
! police, the revolutionists calculated
upon Baron Won Nolken going tt
5 Praga on learning OF the explosion
Of the bomb at the station there, ano
= knew he must pass the castle, thai
being the only road by which hs
could reach the only bridge across
. the Vistula.
r The affair caused great excite
!, ment. A popular rumor says th'
. revolutionaries adopted this course
of informing the police that they
+ have more bombs besides those dis
) covered in the Powonski cemetery
/. Saturday.
Baron Won Nolken is very un
f popular. He is hated by the mas
ses Of the Polish people, who hele
him responsible for the sanguinarJ
suppression Of the disturbance herr
: at the end Of JaEuary. He has beer
t here only a year, having come from
. St. Petersburg, where he was chic
! Of the mounted division of the po
t lice.
= Warsaw, March 27.-Accordins
: to later information, the bomI
: which exploded at the Praga polio
station was not thrown into th'
courtyard, but into room of tn
station, where tie msn assemble be
fore going on duty. Six policemen
: were wounded and all the furnitur
as we'll as one wall was destroyed
The bombthrower, in trying t
escape, meta policemen and sho
twice, wounding the officer in tn
stomach. The prisoner himself wa
u wounded and has been placed il
d the hospital.
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