The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1905-02-25
| BOMB ENDS LIFE OF SERIOUS
UNCLE OF THE CAR ASSASSIN.
ATED BY TERRORIST.
His Death Had Been Decreed by Rev.
olutionists in December and SEN
tence Was Executed at First
Opportunity.

Grand Duke Sergius uncle, of the
ear of Russia and leader of the reac-
tionaries, met a terrible death in Mos
COW shortly before o'clock Friday
afternoon.
The deed was committed by a single
terrorist, who threw beneath the car
rage OF the grand duke a bomb
charged with the same high powder
explosive which wrought Minister Won
Plehve's death. The missile was
packed with nails and fragments OF
iron, and its explosion tore the i'm.
perial victims body to CHASTITY frag.
ments, which strewed the snow for
yards around. Every window in the
great, lofty facade of the palace OF
Justice was shattered and bits of iron
were imbedded deeply in the walls OF
the arsenal, 100 yards away.
On the snow lay fragments of the
body of Grand Duke Sergius, mingled
with the wreck of the carriage. The
grand dukes head had been torn from
his body and reduced to a shapeless
pulp, and the trunk and limbs were
frightfully mangled. A finger bearing
a rich seal ring was found lying sew
eral yards away. The crimson tint and
the smell of blood were everywhere.
Only few fragments of clothing IN
dicated that the body had been
clothed. The coachman lay moaning
with pain beside a deep hole in the
pavement. The horses dragging the
front wheels of the carriage, had
dashed off maddened with pain, to sink
dying before they reached the gate.
The assassin was thrown to the
ground and stunned by the force of the
explosion, but he Immediately rose and
ran toward the gate. attempting to
escape. His haste and the blood
streaming from his face, where he
had been wounded by fragments of the
bomb attracted the attention of a ser.
geant of police, who seized him before
he could draw a revolver.
The man did not deny his crime, but,
on the contrary, gloried in its success.
He expressed his satisfaction that ha
had DenG able to kill the grand duke
without involving the duchess. He
avowed his membership in the Social
revolutionary organization, but re-
fused to give his name, and at the Jail
his papers were found to be forged.
The assassin belongs to the noted
lighting group" of the socialist revo.
lutionary party, which has removed
other prominent officials and long
since passed a sentence of death upon
Grand Duke Sergius.
The grand duke is understood to
have been condemned to death by the
revolutionary party in December last.
The governor generalship of Moscow
was abolished early in the year, and
the grand duke, according to dis.
patches from Moscow January 4, kept
closely to the well-guarded Bskou-
tohny palace, on the outskirts of Mos
COW, retaining his position as COM
mander-in-chief of the military dis
trict. Later in Janaury, however, it
was announced that the grand duke
had sought refuge in one of the pal
aces of the Kremlin. He has been
classed as the most reactlonary men,
Der of the imperial family, at the
head Of what is referred to as the war
party, and has been sigmatized by the
liberals as Russa's evil genius.
Grand Duke Sergius was born in
1857, and was married in 1884 to Prin-
cess Elizabeth of Hesse-Darmstadt |
They have no children.