The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-23
HAD A NARROW ESCAPE,
PETERHOF Plot DISCOVERED
Ar THE LAST MOMENT.
rrenicr :;Ow Engaged in C~Nerhauling
the Political POlice-MAny Arrests
Mace hut Terrorist Leaders Escape
spread OF ReN eli Among me PepEantI
Special Cable Despatch to TEE sun.

spee,al Cable DeSDaish to TEE SUM-.
LONDON, Sept. 22.-Amid the universal
Rodition In Russia the whole attention and
energy OF the Government is now directed
eeward thwarting q greet central terrorist
\ riot against the life OF the Emperor. The
authorities have been appallel-to learn in
the last few days that all h elaborate
machinery for the protection OF the royal
family is ineffective and 1t was. only by an
4 Elmost accidental discovery in the nick OF
time that the Cars life was saved.
Tho 81. Petersburg correspondent OF The
BUN wires that Premier Stolypin- and NJ.
Iszvolsky, Minister Of Foreign Affairs, went
to-day in an Admiralty yacht to consult the
n Czar aboard the royal yacht Standard.
II is understooi that the Premier advised
4 the Emperor to rerfain away until the
situstion is better in hand.
In the meantime NJ. Stolypin Is engaged
IN o radical overhluling OF the political
police. He has summoned the ex-chiefs
who we're retired sitter the assassination OF
III. de Plehve to as 'St in strengthening the
lmperor's DEE lcs, ,->1 .t
The Premier severely condemns the pres
ent police authorities for their inability 70
reach the real centre Of the terrorist organl-
zation. They have captured many bomb,
makers and throwers, but have utterly
failed to reach the men whose o rders those
arrested hove been obeF ing. M. Durnova,
the Minister Of the Interior, is participating
In the Efforts to re~organize the secret police.
Tho story Of revolution day by day in
Russia il best told at the present stage
by a. series Of incidents. Three peasants
charged with mutilating ikons in a church
window were court-martialled this week.
centenced TO death for sacrilege and lese
majestic and hanged the same day.
A Jew in Odessa on Tuesday killed a
policeman who was trying to arrest him
He hed and whilc doing 40 fired IN his pur-
suers, killing one and wounding two more
policemen. He himself received FIVE shots
In the body and was arrested and put in
prison. A field court-martial, composed
Of six high officers, whose names were
not divulged, after a short elaboration
sentenced the jew to death. The man.
whose condition was hopeless owing to loss
OF blood, was put on a litter, carried 4Hte
the prison yard and tied to q post. His
last words before he was put to death were:
81 send you, my Rssassins, my contempt
and curse you. Piteous, blind fools, you
fancy you have shot down the whole OF
young Russia with your pogromsand courts
martial. but be sure that there are bombs
and revolvers enough to deliver our I'M
fortunte country from your blOodstained
hands. Now fire.
The soldiers fired three volleys and the
Jew a dea&
The Times continues its remarkable
series Of articles from the interior Of Russia
showing that there is an almost unanimous
evolutionary spirit among the peasantry.
The following excerpt gives n vivid idea
Of the latest revelations:
sTwo terrorisms are at the present mo-
mont striving for the mastery in Russia,
and IL s the bureaucratic rather than tho
evolutionary which strikes uselessly and
capriciously and stoops to mean victims.
The authors OF the Yiborg manifesto are
Mt liberty, but those who print and circulate
n I'LL the jails by thousands and miserable
Jews, students and hysterioal women are
the mean victims Of the Government. Even
when punishment falls where it is due 1t 10
often administered in a manner that leads
70 general palliation Of the crime and even
eometimes to apotheosis OF the criminal.
Il spent a few days among q household
OF which the younger members at least
had been made revolutionaries by having
their feelings u ght upon by the sight
Of men with wolf passports, to which !
I referred in my last article. Some Of these
unfortunate wolves often present them
selves at a door begging bread. They
cannot be given work or shelter for more
than q night without q breach Of the law
and thus law abiding Russian subjects ara
compelled to become participstors in what
they feel to be q crime against these men.
however heinous their offence may have
been.
Il myself have seen another wolf since
I hast wrote. This one did not cry Hands
upr but he cried like q child as he sho wed
his feet, which were sore with much travel,
and complained that he must still move on,
Hs had been sent TO Perm, thence TO Odessa
and was now tramping on under onderl
to Kazan, whence he may be sent to VlAdi-
vostok or anywhere else In the Russian
Empire, excepting always Mini Novgorod
~As1A e HE home, where he had eaten ths
fruit Of tho forbidden tree Of knowledgs
of political rights and from which paradise
he had been driven forth, his passport
being a flaming sword forbidding his 70
turn. It is said that NJ. S~ipiaguine, wher
Minister Of the Interior with pervorSe
INGENUITY invented the woif's passport
and that IL was for that crime that he wal
assassinated. It breeds assassins to THU
day.
sTane the case Of Marie S~piHdonova
have never heard Of her before the other
week, when I was in the Government Of
rambof, and there 1t Is difficult TO hear
Of any one else. II the truth must be told
even /, who have. learped the wisdom o.
throwing many grains OF salt upon pcpu'
lar tales and who am old fashioned enough
TO place assassination from whatevei
motive in the category Of cardinal sins
I'M strangely wrought upon by all thar
hear Of this girl who killed the Vioe-Gov
ornor Of TAmbon. . ~ r.
Il am told that Abramo6i o CosSacA
oficer, and Zkdanon, q police officer, IN,
suited and tortured her in prison, stripped
her naked and branded her body will
lighted cigarettes, broke the joints Of heI
fingers and gouged out one OF her eyes
30 that when her mother saw her b 5ai
she failed 10 recognize her child oanno
believe that these barbarities were com
mitted, but a letter Is in circulation In which