Omaha daily bee., 1906-01-31
ASSASSINATION AT TlFLIS
Graphic Story of the Death of General
Griasnoff Near Palace.
DEADLY BOMB THROWN FROM AMBUSH
Assassin Captured as Victim Dies aud
Ia beaten into InsensibilitS by
soldiers While Panic
Rules Town.

TIFLIS, Caucasia, Monday, Jan. 29.-Via
st. Petersburg, Jan. 30-Ihe murder today
of General Griaznoff, chief of the staff of
the viceroy OF the Caucasus was most dra-
matte and audacious The assassin evil
IDENTIFY had studied the habits of his victim
and lay in wait behind wall of the Alex
ander garden opposite the entrance OF the
palace, where a carriage was drawn up to
take the general for his daily drive. AS
all suspicious persons are liable to be
searched in the streets by the police and
military patrols the assassin impersonated
a painter. carrying the bomb with which
he committed the crime concealed in paint
can. He was thus able to pass the sentry
posted at the gates of the park and reached
his place of ambush without arousing sus-
plcion. General Griaznoff clad in a crimson
uniform and the white lambs wool shapka
or cap, worn by the vceroy's aide-de-- camp,
made a shining target for the crouching
ASA ssin when he emerged from the palace.
As the general stepped into the carriage the
man sprang on the wall, swung the can
by cord. and the bomb as If thrown from
= sling with marvellous precision sped
straight to the mark and struck the general
on the neck flash of fire and a terrific
explosion followed and Griaznoff was lit
orally blown out Of the carriage and with
his coachman, Cossack orderly and the lat
ter's horse was instantly killed. 4 lady
who passing at the time OF the explo-
sion was mortally wounded
widow kneeIs In Mud.
When the correspondent OF the Associated
Press reached the scene. Immediately after
the tragedy, the CHASTITY dead still lay in
the mud. Griaznoffs shapeless body, sur
rounded by soldiers, presented a sickening
spectacle 1t seemed as IL his crimson uni
form had melted into the pool of blood
in which weltered his head, torn away from
the trunk. The generals distracted widow
knelt in the blood and mud beside the mutt
| ted body.
The assassin had already been caught
beaten into insonsibility by the Infatuated
| soldiers, and after being loaded into a
! drosky was being carried of to the ancient
fortress above the city where, as Tihis is
under martial law, he Will probably be
| executed at dawn
The m ost intense excitement followed the
assassination as terrible punishment is
meted out by the troops to bomb throwers.
| The population fled In terror before the
: Cossacks and other troops who were soon
out in force to clear tho streets. Shortly
| before dark a fusillade exchanged be-
| tween TartdrS and Artnenlans caused Il
vcrltable panic, IL was feared that the
horrors OF the recent war between the races
| had been renewed.
| Instantly all the shops were closed and
thousands OF troops poured into the streets,
! SO far as ascertsined there was no rela-
! ton between the crime and a renewal Of
the race war. The crime was undoubtedly
a political one by the terrorists. The lden-
/ tity of the assassin has not been estab-
lshed, but he is a Georgian and was prob
ably selected by lot at meeting of social
revolutionists to kill General Griaznon as
retaliation for the latter's severity In re-
/ pressing the revolutionists and arreshng
! the leaders. According TO reports the gen
I cral was the head of a faction which be-
! lieved in not showing mercy and he is
charged with setting the native peoples
against each other. He had received re-
peated letters OF warning and for months
past, until today. had never ridden out
without his wife.
I Advices from kutais say that the revolu-
tionists there have not been suppressed.
They have been drived from the railroad
line into the mountains. and II is hoped
4 to enclose them in a trap between the
troops arriving from the seaboard and the
| expedition from Tihis. Troops have been
landed all along the Black sea