Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-07-17
ASSASSIN GETS WRONG NAN
General KOSlOv Killed BY RsvOlutiOnist
Who Took Him for General TrepOf,
MURDER COMMITTED IN ENGLISH PARK
Assassin Carefully Compares victim
with LhOtOgraph of TrepOH
-Resemblance Between
Men IL Great.

ST. PETERSBURG, July 16-Additional
details of the assassination of General
Kozlov of the headquarters STAFF in the
park at Peterhof on Saturday, proved be-
yond question that the murderer believed
he was killing General Trepoff. The traR-
edy occurred at s:20 in the evening in the
presence OF several thousand people who
we're listening to the music in the English
park below the grand chateau, adjoining
the park of Alexander palace, where the
imperial family and General Trepoff re-
side.
A young man, dressed in the clothes NJ
a workman, seeing General Kozlov, who
resembles General Trepoff, gazed long and
earnestly at the generals face, and then
took photograph from his pocket to COM
pare 1t with Kozlov's features, as If to
make sure Of his identity.
KoSIOv Dies Instantly.
The man then drew a pistol and hred four
shots point blank at Kozov, who fell NOR
tally wounded and died on the spot. The
assassin started to fee. nut Prince An
dromiroff seized him and turned him over
to the police, who thronged the park.
The crowd shouted. Lynch him." but the
prisoner was conducted safety to police
headquarters When he was searched Ire
poff's photograph was found in his pocket,
leaving no doubt regarding the identity of
the person he intended to kill. The assas-
sin refused to give his name, although he
openly avowed that he was a member of
the social revolutionary organization, and
the police have not yet been able to find
out his name.
General Kozlov was not involved in poll
tics. He married granddaughter Of the
famous field marshal, Count Alexander
Suxaroff
Trouble in Capital.
Sunday night witnessed the usual col
lision between workmen and police and
gendarmerie in the industrial quarters Of
the capital The most serious affair oc-
CURED on the Sclhesselburg road, where a
crowd of 1900 persons attacked a steam
street car. which ran over a drunken SOL
dier. The crowd stopped the car with the
lntent!cS os !ynching the engineer and con-
ductor, but were finally dissuaded by the
pacific counsel Of a workman.
The mobiles having large estates have
formed an organization for the mutual pro-
| lection OF their properties, both against
appropriation by law and despoilation by
the peasants.
No Record in Duma.
The different groups in Parliament are
systematically sending members into the
country, campaigning in favor of the pres
| tige of Parliament. From the very be-
ginning by tactic understanding no roll
| calls have been taken at the sessions OF
the lower house, so the government will
have no records of the votes with which to
prosecute members should reaction again
| get the upper hand.
Representatives la Parliament of the va
rious regions Of the empire are uniting
! Irrespective of party afiliation. for the ad-
vancement OF their local interests. This
movement shows plainly a drift toward
decentralization and indicates the natural
| tendency toward the disintegration of the
vast empire. once the grip of the central
authority is broken.
| Members of the court party, including
among other prominent persons, General
Count Ignatienf and Prince Tcherbatoff
held a meeting yesterday and organized
| a union of the House-owning Gentry
electing Prince Kassatkine Rostkovsk
president. Each member agreed TO con.
tribute one-tenth of / per cent of his in.
vested capital to form a guard for the
protection of property belonging to mem
bers of the union.
Cabinet situation Unchanged.
There are no developments in the cab
inet situation. The murder OF Genera
Kozlov is reported to have made an ex
ceedingly bad impression on the emperor
and the NovOe Vremya denies that tn,
cabinet had resigned The hesitation a
Peterhof has undoubtedly raised hopes II
the minds of some of Premier Goremy
kin's colleagues that he can hold on ever
I'm the face of the adverse vote in the up
per house of Parliament on Saturday
NJ. Roditchen, leader of the constitu
tionAl democrats, will head the deputatioi
of the Russian Parliament to the confer
ence of the Interparliamentary union II
London, which assemblies July 2S. NJ. Al
ladin representing the Group OF Toll.
There was an incipient mutiny in tn
fortress of St. Peter and St, Paul today
Two soldiers refused to obey orders o
their commander and when threatened wit
arrest the whole OF the regiment to whic
the men belonged came 10 their support
A court Of inquiry will be instituted t
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