The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1906-08-31
KILL THIRTY-TWO
IN ATTEMPT TO
MURDER PREMIER
CAMPAIGN OF ASSASSINATION is
BEGUN IN EARNEST IN
RUSSIA.
GEN. MIN IS ASSASsINATtD
SHOT BY MERE GIRL IN DEPOT
AT PETERHOF-THR
MORE SLAUGTER.

MORE sLAUGTER.
St. Petersburg, Aug. 28.-Thirty-
two persons are dead and thirty-one
wounded as the result Of an attempt
Saturday afternoon to assassinate
Premier Stolypin with bomb, while
he was holding a public reception at
his country house on Aptekarsky ISL
and.
Among the dead are Gen. Zamatin,
the premier's personal secretary; M
Khovstoff, former governor of the
province Of Penza; Col. Federoff, chief
OF the premier's personal guard;
Court Chamberlain Davidoff. Court
Chamberlain Veronin, Prince Nakash
idge, Police Officer Konunzeff, Aide
Doubasoff, four women. two children
several guards and several servants
The wounded included M. Stolypins S
daughter and three-year-old son, who
are seriously, though not fatally. in
1ured, and number OF persons promi.
nent In the social and official world.
Two Terrorists Killed.
OF the four conspirators who en-
gineered the outrage, two were killed
with their victims. while the third
who acted as coachman for the party,
and the fourth, who remained inside
the carriage, were wounded.
The authors of the outrage drove
list Of visitors had been closed.
The servants refused them admis
sion, at which they attempted to force
an entrance to the house.
Struggle With Assassin.
A struggle ensued at the entrance to
the ante-room adjoining the reception
room, during which the terrorist, dis
guiccd as a gendarme, dropped
bomb, which exploded, destroying the
ante-room, the adjoining guard room,
part of the reception room and also
the balcony Of the first floor. The pre-
mier, who was receiving visitors in
private room, was not injured The
principal loss of life occurred in the
ante-room.
Gen. Min Assassinated.
Saturdays unsuccessful attempt on
the life OF Premier Stolypin, with its
sickening useless slaughter Of thirty
two persons, was followed last night
by another revolutionary outrage, in
which Gen. Min, commander Of the
Semlnovsky guard regiment, and who,
since his promotion to be general, has
been attached as a personal adjutant
to the suite of the emperor, was killed
on the station platform at Peterhof by
q young woman, who fred five shots
into his body from an automatic re-
volver, and then, without resistance,
submitted to arrest.
This was the third successive at
tempt on the life of Gen. Min, who
| was condemned to death by the ter
rorists Immediately after the Moscow
revolt last December On account of
the stern repression practiced by a
battalion under his command, and es-
pecially for the wholesale execution
of persons condemned by drumhead
court-martial for being caught with
arms in their hands.
Assassin a Mere Girl.
Gen. Min was returning from his
summer residence at Peterhof and had
just greeted his wife and daughter
on the platform when a young woman
almost girl-approached from be-
hind and fired two shots into his back
and then three more into his body as
It sank to the ground. Further shots
were prevented by Nine. Min, who
threw herself upon the murderess
and seized the hand which held the
pistol. The woman did not attempt to
escape, but she cautioned Nine. Min
not to touch handbag which she had
placed on the platform before shoot
ing the general, explaining that it con-
tanned bomb.
To the police the girl acknowledged
that she had done the deed, saying she
had executed the sentence Of the fight
Ing organization OF the Social Revolu.
tionists, but she refused to give her
name.
Threaten More Slaughter.
The central committee of the Social
Revolutionists has drawn up procla-
nation which declares that unless the
government forthwith alters its poll
cy. such acts as the attempt on Pre-
| mier Stolypin's life will be pursued to
the utmost and government represent
atives will be killed by hundreds.
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