Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-27
GENERAL MIN IS
ASSASSIN VICTIM
INSTANTLY KILLED BY A
YOUNG GIRL
Five Revolver shots, Fired at Close
Range, End officials life.
Tragedy Occurs IT
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of the premier. with It's sickeniug use
less slaughter Of thirty-two persons,
was followed tonight by another revo-
lutlonary outrage. in which General
Min, commander Of the Seminovsky
guard regiment and who, since his pro-
motion to be general, has been attached
as a personal adiutant to the suite oil
the emperor, was killed on the station
platform at Peterhof by young wo-
man who fired five shots into his body
from an automatic revolver and then.
without resistance, submitted to arrest.
The capture of the girl was effected
by General Minis wife, who held her
until the arrival of an officer.
This was the third successive attempt
on General Min, who was condemned
TO death by the terrorists Immediately
after the Moscow revolt last December
on account of stern repression prac-
ticed by a battalion under his COM
mand. and especially for the wholesale
execution of persons condemned by
drumhead courtmartial for being caught
with arms in their hands.
General 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 q girl-approached from behind
and fired two shots into his back and
then three more into his body as ne
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 es-
cape, but she cautioned Nine. Min not
to touch a handbag which she had
placed on the platform before shooting
General Min, adding that it contained
a bomb.
To the police the girl acknowledged
that she had done the deed, saying that
she had executed the sentence of the
lighting organization of the Social
Revolutionists, but she refused to give
her name.
NJ Moukanoff, a member of the late
parliament, who at the time of the
explosion was waiting to see Premier
Stolypin concerning permission tn hold
a congress of the Constitutional Demo-
cratic party says:
Il was sitting with some twenty
other visitors, including several ladies,
at a long table in the waiting room. M.
Stolypin being then engaged with M.
Potinavoff. a marshal of the nobility
of the province of Simbirsk, and the
president of the Simbirsk zemstvo dep
utation.
Tells of Explosion
After waiting for some time 1
changed my seat and joined NJ. Prisot-
koff, chamberlain of the court, in a
bay window overlooking the avenue
leading up to the house.
"a few seconds after the arrival of
the carriage bearing the assassins,
which attracted my attention because
visitors usually come in smaller car
riages. l was suddenly hurled backward
against the wall, which my head
struck. l was so stunned that I did
not even hear the explosion. When
recovered consciousness 1 saw that the
ceiling and one of the wal were gone
and that the room was heaped with
debris from the floor above.
The first words heard came from the
lips of "A mother superior who was
standing amid the ruins in a corner of
the room, praying before an ikon. Save
US. Save u.s. at the same time cross
ing herself She was one of six who
escaped uninjured. The occupant of
the chair ! had formerly occupied was
killed on the spot
II then went into the garden, where
/ came face to face with NJ. Stolypin.
He had complete mastery over himself
and was perfectly calm. l urged h m
not to go back into the house, saying
that there might be another bomb
there, but he insisted on returning,
saying there might be wounded persons
inside. The premier's face was bespat-
tered with ink, thrown there by the
force of the explosion"
NJ. Stolypin is greatly grieved at the
death of the old hall porter, who had
served the ministry of the interior for
forty years.
In the evening Madame Stolypin went
to st. Petersburg aboard a small gov
ernment boat.
1t appears that the assassins were
well supplied with funds. They paid
s125 in advance for the rooms they en-
gagged.
Before leaving them they disguised