The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-11-29
Moving Pictures Shows General
Trepoff, The Tyrant, His
OWN ASSASSINATION.
The %IngeniOusIy Cruel Trick BY Which
The Savage Russian General Was
Forced to Cease Butch ring
Innocent Women and Chill.
dren ard Resigns.

dren ard Resigns.
A letter frc m s., Petersburg, Rus
STA, to the New Y rk American, says
four very unusual moving r C ureE
have just srcs dcd in welding a more
powerful irlIenoe ever General Ire
ptf than tn, u;anGs Of strikers, armed
mobs, plottirg ann'hilists, hired as.
sassins and apg-y men, women and
children shouting for vengence. Tho
pictures, it Is said, have clused the
fearless T:ep IF to quit his place as
ictatcr Of Russia, chief of police and
Governor. Genersl If Sc, Petersburg,
They have succeeded in thoroughly
frightening Trepcff-in soaring him,
in fact, almost to Death.
It Is reported that the entire set OF
N wing pictures which, 1t IS declared,
nave owed this hitherto dau ltless
man into abdicatiDg lis nearly oound
less powers C uld not BE- preserved in
Gact for all time. 1t is, reported taat
they have been destroyed by some OF
the governments secret police, bu
not, however, before the pictures had
done the work for wi ich they were
intended, and to The m many attribute
his recent resignation.
TREPOFF SEES HIMSELF.
The pictures had just shown Ire
pof himself being biuwn to bits as a
punishment for bis repression of Rus
sian rioters.
This high Off .ial Of the Cars EN-
pire was attending a performance In
h,e Of the State theatres and WIS
"a,cnlng cinematographic views OF
Of President Loubst's recent visit to
the King Of Spain. He was surround
rounded by members. Of the Emperor
Court and sev.ral titled womel as well
as many Of his own staff officers. The
distinguished party Was gosslping,
whispering and jesting, paying bu .
scant attention to the pictures showL
on the canvas,
Suddenly the Spanish pictures
vanished and d vaul5ed darkened room
stood upon the white screen. AROUND
a table we're crowded alb ut a dLzen
men In the act Of taking a solemn
oath. Their hands we're outstre,c led
and their heads were bent low. Lots
were drawn. Two men, selected for
some mission, gu ckly left the room.
Then it was that Trepcff, who had
up to that time been more interested
in his conversation with the fair Rus
sian women, tuned toward the can
vas for the my stericuS change In views
the pictures on q band Of supposedly
Russian plotters naturally excited his
curiosity. He was still unmoVed, but
he was thoroughly interested. o.
9 lick IS lightnsng the square In
of Governor General Trepof's palace
in St. Petersburg, with his own
stately mansion prominent in the
foreground, replaced the den OF the
consptrators on the screen. The front
doors Of the building were suddenly
thrown open and at the same m ,ment
a fne carriage aid spired horses draw
Ing 1t drew up in front Of the cover.
nor's resideuce.
Taen Treptf say to bis anna s,ment
moving pictures Of himself attended
oy members Of the staff, whom he
also recogniz ID, emerge from the pal.
ace. They were surrounded by guards
for the Russians have long PROMISE
TO kill Tieptf the mo nent they get
the slightest opportunity. That they
will do so be well kno rs.
Down the b:oed granite steps the
parry moved, and in the n xt instan
the Czlr's military lieutenant saw
himself spting into his Own carriage,
folio we'd by a Sc. # fl ;er. Then the
carriage drove Rapidly away.
N V,ki Prospect appear d d K with
its fine buildings, broad, Carriage
drives and stately towers In the back
ground. This was where the Ri sian
cavalry, the dreded Cossacks, III ;ntly
moved down by hundreds the rioters
as well as many Innocent people who
were merely %onlJokers. Along thc
splendid street dashed a carriage
which Trepof as we'll as every other
person in The theatre recognized in
stantly as his own.
A man ran forward toward the
vehicle, raising bis right arm, in the
hand OF which he was .holdiDg some.
thing which was smoking. Pausing
for better aim, he flung the burning
object right under the carriage and
darted back into the little crowo
which had gathert d.
Taere was a fl Ish upward Of binding
smoke, which partially obscured tina
carriage. 1t seemed as though the
wheels had b,en blotted out and the
vehicle left hanging In mid air. In an
instant the vapors were dissipated ano
in the window of the carriage was
seen Distinctly for a moment the face
of TrepLf c%ontorted into a whirlWind
Of passion and pain. His arms were
fang upward and outward as though
III the extremity Of terror and tor,
ture.
The wheels Of the carriage were
seen flying through the air and the
great carriage horses were scattered
In FRAGMENTS far and near In the road