The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-01-31
DEATH DECREED
BY TERROR|STS
General Grizanoff, Vieeroy of the
Caucasus, Slain at the Gates
of the Palace.
BODY HORRIBLY MUTILATED
PEOPLE OF TlFLIS ARE WILDLY
EXCITED.

TifHs. Monday, Jan. q (via St Peters
burg jan 30).-The murder today of Cen
eraI Grizanoff, 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 vic
tim and lay in wait behind wall OF the
Alexander garden, opposite the entrance
of the palace, where 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 as
sassin impersOnated painter carrying
the bomb with which he committed the
crime concealed in a paint can lie was
thus able to pass the sentry posted at
the gates of the park, and reached his
place of ambush without arousing sus-
picion.
Fatal Bomb Thrown.
General Grizanoff. clad in a crimson
uniform and the white lambs wool snap
de-camp, made a shining target for the
eroUching assassin when he emerged
from the place where, as the general
stepped into the carriage, he sprang on
the wall, swung the can by cord, and
the bomb was thrown from sling with
marvellous speed, straight to the mark,
and struck the general on the neck
flash Of fire and a terrific explosion fol-
lowed. and Grizanoff was literally blown
cut Of the carriage and, with his coach
man, COssack orderly and the latter
horse, was instantly killed. A lady who
was passing at the time of the explosion
was mortally wounded.
Sickenins Scene.
When the correspondent of the Asso-
ciated Press reached the scene imnedi-
ateIv after the tragedy the CHASTITY dead
still lay in the mud. Grizanoff's shape
less body, surrounded by soldiers, pre-
scented a sickening spectacle. 1t seemed
as if his crimson uniform had melted
into the pool of blood in which weltered
his head, torn away from the trunk. The
generals distracted widow kneh in the
blood and mud beside the mutilated body.
The assassin had already been captured.
beaten into insensibility by the tnfuriated
soldiers, and, after being loaded into
drosky, was being carried off to the
ancient fortress above the city, where,
as Tiflis is under martial law, he viii
probably be executed at dawn.
Citizens Terrorized.
The most 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
VINO were soon out in force to clear the
! streets. Shortly before dark a fuSillade
! exchange between Tartars and Armen-
/ ians produced a veritable panic, as it 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
] SlICtlS
/ SO far as asceTtainable there was no
! relation between. the crime and re-
newal of the race war.
Selected BY Lot.
The crime undoubtedly was a political
/ act of vengeance decreed by the terror
| lists. The identity of the assassin has not
/ been established, but he is a Georgian,
and was probably selected by lot at a
/ meeting of the social revOlutionists to
/ kill General Grizanoff as retaliation for
| the latter's severity in REFRESHING the
/ TeVOlutiOniSts and arreSting the leaders.
/ According to reports the general was the
/ head of a faction which believed in not
| showing mercy. and he is charged with
/ setting the native people against each
| other. He had received repeated letters
of warning and for months past until
/ today had never ridden out without his
| wife.
! Adyices from Kutais say that the re-
volutionists there have not been sup
pressed. They have been driven from the
railroad line into the mountains, and it is
hoped to enclose them in q trap between
the troops advancing from the seaboard
and the expedition from Tiflis. Troops
have been landed all along the Black sea.