Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-04-01
THREW TWO BOMBS
CHIEF OF POLICE OF WARSAW
SEVERELY INJURED.
Elaborate Conspiracy of Revolutionary
Party-Police Caught Bomb Throw
Committed Suicide-Affair Causes
Great Excitement.

Warsaw, March pa bomb was
thrown into the carriage of Baron Won
Nolken, chief of police of Warsaw, at
8 o'clock Sunday evening. The baron
was severely wounded.
According to latest information, the
attack on Baron Won Nolken was the
result Of an elaborate conspiracy OF
the revolutionary party. Shortly be
fore O'Clock an elegantly dressed
man went to the police station al
Praga, a large suburb of Warsaw, on
the other side of the Vistula, and
threw a bomb into the courtyard OF
the station, wounding seven persons
two Of them dangerously. The man
started to run away, but was caught
by the captain of the police He was
found to be a Jew. but his identity has
not yet been discovered.
A telephone message was immeai
ately sent to Baron Won Nolken at the
city hall informing him Of the outrage
Baron Won Nolken, accompanied by a
police official, took a carriage and
started Immediately for Praga. When
passing the castle where the governor
general resides a man standing on the
pavement threw a bomb at the car
riage. Baron Won Nolken, who was sit
ting on the side nearest the assailant
received the full charge of the bomb
while his companion escaped unhurt
The coachman was thrown from the
box and the carriage was smashed.
Baron Won Nolken was removed to
the city hall and doctors were sum
moned, who found he had received in
iuries on the head, neck, arm and leg
which are believed to be serious.
Meantime, the police official accom-
panying Baron Won Nolken saw the
bomb thrower fleeing and pursued
and caught up with him, but the Grim
inal proved the stronger and tore him
self away. Another policeman fired
twice after him without result. Hall
an hour later a man whom the police
believe to be the bomb thrower, was
found dead in Sowia street. The pc
lice think the man shot himself tC
escape arrest.
A girl who was passing the spot
when the bomb vase thrown was
wounded by splinters and was taker
to the hospital.
According to the theory of the police
the revolutionists calculated upOr
Baron Won Nolken going to Praga OF
learning of the explosion of the boml
at the station there. and knew he
must pass the castle, that being the
only route by which he could reacl
the only bridge across the Vistula.
The affair caused great excitement
popular rumor says that the revolu
tionaries adopted this course of in
forming the police that they have
more bombs besides those discovered
in the Powonski cemetery Saturday.
Baron Won Nolken is very unpopu
lar. He is hated by the masses of the
Polish people. who hed him respon
sible for the sanguinary suppression o
the disturbances here at the end o
January He has been here only Z
year, having come from st. Peters
burg where he was chief Of the mount
ed division of the police.
According to later information. the
bomb which exploded at the Pragi
police station, was not thrown int
the courtyard, but into a room in the
court station, where the men assem-
bled when on duty. The furniture az
well as one wall was destroyed. The
bomb thrower. in trying to escape
met a policeman and shot twice
wounding the officer in the stomach
The prisoner himself was wounded
and has been placed in the hospital.
The man who was killed in Sowii
street proves to be a plain clothes
policeman, who was seen pursuing
Baron Won Nolken's assailant. Tit
police believe that the latter turned
on the policeman and shot him dead.
Baron Won Nolken's injuries arr
serious, but it is thought he will re
cover.