The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-08-27
GENERAL MIN SLAIN
High Officer Of Russian Army
Shot to Death by Girl
RevoIutionist.
ATTEMPT ON CAR FoILED.
Man With Bomb Fails to Pass Guards.
Thirty-two Dead In Explosion In
Premier StoIypin's House - Woman
Asitator Hurt by Missile intended
For General kauIbars.

Agitator Hurt by Missile intended
For General kauIbars.
st. Petersburg, Aug. 27.-The unsuc
cessful attempt on the life of Premier
Stolypin, with its sickening slaughter
of thirtytwo persons who were blown
up by a bomb, was followed by another
revolutionary outrage in which General
Min, commander of the Seminoysky
Guard regiment and personal adju
tant to the suit of the emperor, was
killed on the station platform at Peter
hof by an eighteen-year-old girl
She sent tve bullets into the gen
erals body. He died instantly.
The crime was committed within a
stones throw of the palace of the czar
General Min was returning from the
capital to his summer residence at
Peterhof, and had just greeted his wife
and daughter on the platform when
the girl approached from behind and
fired two shots into his back and then
three more into his body.
Further shots were prevented by
Nine. Min, who threw herself upon
the murderess and seized the hand
which held the pistol.
The crime was highly tragic. Gen
eral Minis children screamed with ter
ror and clung to him as he reeled and
fell
Victims Wife Seizes Assassin.
The generals wife was the coolest
person in the station. She made dash
for the girl, seized her by the hair and
struggling prisoner until guards came
to relieve her
The the girl, wild eyed and dishev-
eled, began an impassioned speech, in
which she warned the autocracy of
Russia that many other oppressors Of
the people would share the fate of Min
A crowd had gathered, but it dis
persed quickly when the girl, with a
stagelike motion of his disengaged arm,
pointed to bomb under one of the
station benches and shouted:
Beware, it will soon speak for Rus
sia's freedomr'
The bomb was taken away after a
time. 1t was found to be of most
dangerous character.
simultaneously with the attack upon
Premier Stolypin's villa an attempt
was made to enter Peterhof palace and
kill the czar
The attempt proved unsuccessful for
the palace guards, cautioned into un-
usual vigilance, arrested one of the
two would be assassins near the pal
ace wall, where he was crouching,
waiting to effect an entrance
He was armed with a bomb con-
cealed in a basket of fruit Later his
accomplice was found inside the park,
crOuching under the branches of a fir
tree. Both men were quickly identified
as notorious members of the Moscow
terrorists
Trying to Find Bomb Makers.
The secret police are at their wits
ends and trying to discover the loca
tion Of the bomb factories and the or
ganization through which the bombs
are distributed throughout the coun-
try
A girl dropped a bomb in the Nicho-
las boulevard fifty PAGES from the pal
ace of Governor Kaulbars at Odessa.
There was a deafening detonation
and wild stampede of the promenad-
ers No one was injured, except the
girl who dropped the bomb, whose
hand was shattered. She was arrested.
The girl who assassinated General
Min is slight of build and cultured In
appearance She refuses to reveal her
identity.
The slayer of General Min is being
referred to as "Russia's fourth great
woman assassin"
There is undoubted reference here to
Marie Spiridonova, who killed General
Lugenovsky and whose subsequent
brutal treatment in prison shocked the
civilized world; Princess Narishkin,"
who Is regarded as no less the heroine
because her attempt on the life of Gen
eral Trepoff failed and the woman
who slew Lieutenant General Sakha
rolf, ex-minlster of war, at Saratov
last December
Woman RevoIutonists Brave.
There is increasing comment and
wonderment at the selection of women
to carry out these missions Of death.
Good authorities agree, however, that
the women in the ranks of the Russian
terrorists are the bravest of all.
The death sentence had long hung
over the head of General Min, owing
to the disfavor into which he had fall
en- because of alleged harsh methods
and cruelties.
1t was General (then Colonel Min
who commanded the Seminovsky reg
iment when the people were shot down
near the Psychological institute here
on Oct. 81 and who, it was said, want
ed to set the buildings of the institute
on fire and roast the students inside.
The daughter of Premier Stolypin,
who was injured by the bomb explo-
sion In the premier's summer home
and who was enormously reported to
have died, is still alive. The premier's
son, who also was hurt. is better.
A telegram sent by Emperor Nicho-
las to NJ. Stolypin after the explosion
is as follows:
II cannot find wurds to express my
indignation. I hope with all my heart
that tho hoo lth Of vn,1r cor, and 7osr.rh