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Death OF GEN. TREPOFF,
MOST HATED RUSSIAN
Marked For Assassination, Said
to Have Died Naturally.
A MERCILEss REACTl0NARY

Son of Founding, He Became the
Strength Of the Gar, and Prac'
tical Dictator Of Russia-Ruled
With a Rod of Iron.
st. Petersburg, Russia. - General
Dmitri Feodorovich Trepoff, Com.
mandant of the Imperial Palace, died
in his villa at Peterhof, Of angina
pectoris.
General Trepoff would have been
ffty-one years old on December Is.
Though for two years he was con-
stantly living under the threat of as.
sassination, with even members OF
his own family among those seeking
to take his life, General Trepoff' 8
death was due to natural causes.
But the revolutionists can at least
claim part of the responsibility for
his end, as his illness was superin-
duced by the constant strain due to
perpetual fear Of death, which, with
lack of exercise and recreation dur
originally strong constitution. He
had become so nervous of late that
recently, when military attache of
a continental power was unexpected
ly ushered into his room, General
Trepofr sprang to his feet and stood
in an attitude Of defense, but when
he recognized his visitor he sank into
his chair almost unnerved.
General Trepoff unquestionably
was one of the strongest figures of
the present epoch. He was equipped
with sound common sense unusual in
Russian political men. This, togeth-
er with his almost perfect informa-
ton as to the exact condition Of the
country and its liability to explosion,
induced him to take the Liberal side,
and on number of occasions to ad-
vocate concessions when his weaker
and less posted colleagues urged the
Emperor to perilous measures. This
especially was the case during the
deliberation over M. Bouligin's Par
liamentary project.
So unalterably were the Terrorists
determined upon the assassination of
General Trepoff, "the worst hated
man in Russia" that notwithstand-
ing the official announcement that he
died from heart disease, there is
room for the suspicion that his enc
mics succeeded in their plot to end
his life by poison. Only three weeks
ago q report went abroad that his
food had been tampered with, and
that in consequence his cook and
several servants of his household had
been arrested.
Moreover, it is remembered that
last year, when as Assistant Minister
of the Interior he was ruling st. Pet
ersburg with a rod of iron, he was
warned by the Revolutionaries that
he was marked for assassination, but
might walk the streets in safety.
your sentence will be executed in
your own room," they wrote him.
You will die in your bed"
General Trepoff had passed all his
life fighting the reform movement, as
had his father before him. His name
is coupled with that of Pobiedonost-
self, the former Procurator Of the
Holy Synod, as typifying the very
spirit of reaction. He came from an
unknown family. His father was a
founding. whose parents were never
known. He was found upon the back
doorstep of a German family, by
whom he was taken in, and the name
of Trepphof German for doorstep)
was bestowed upon him for the place
where he was found. He entered the
Russian service as an agent of the
famous "Third Section"