The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-28
TERRORIST RAID ON TREASURY
BOMB Thrown AT CARRIAGE
BEARING IMPERIAL WEALTH.
che Robbers Get Away with $4,000 Ru-
bles. but Drop mas Containing 2IA.OOO
Rubles Ono Killed I'm Resulting Melee
"a Boy Arrested woman in the Plot.

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Rubles ono Killed I'm Resulting Melee
"a BOY Arrested woman in the Plot.
From TIE SUN Correspondent At ST. Petersburg.
ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. 77.-The revolu-
tionary ~terrorists achieved to-day in the
heart Of st. Petersburg an astounding
victory over the Government's protected
treasury. The scene was behind the Kazan
Cathedral on the street leading to the
Catherine quay.
Along this route comes twice a week a car
rage drawn by two horses and bringing
notes from the printing house Of the I'm
perial Bank for distribution by the Treasury
Department. At half past II this morn
ing the carriage passed the end Of Fonar-
naia lane on tho Catherine quay. 1t was
escorted by four mounte1 gendarmes
and inside were two bank clerks armed
with revolvers and two commission naires.
also armed with revolvers.
They guarded three leather portfolios.
The first contained $4,000 rubles in notes
of the Imperial Pank, the SECOND 2It 900
rubles in Government securities and the
third, which was h leather bag, held 1000
ruhles in gold.
A man who was standing in the door
way Of a house on the canal when the car
riage turned from the lane threw a bomb
ct he horses feet. The guardians sprang
from the side Of the equipage, leaving it
unprotected. Then a woman who was
seated in an open cab across the foot
bridge cried out to a youth beside her;
Take them. boy. and rum"
The boy rushed across the bridge and
seized the three leather cases, but in return
ing he dropped the second one. containing
the Government securities. The other
two he gave to the woman who drove of
and IL still at liberty, although hundreds
of arrests have been made this evening
and all the railways and shipping exits
from St. Petersburg are guarded.
Tho boy ran along the street into the
arms of a policeman, who thought he was
a pickpocket. lie had almost escaped
the policeman when q soldier. who was
passing, felled him with tho butt of his
rife. n he was taken to the hospital, where
he was identified as a Jew named White.
The horses fell after the bomb was thrown
and . fusillade Of revolver shots was poured
on the escort by confederates in the house
from which the bomb was thrown. The
escort escaped injury. me OF the at
lacking party was killed by the bayonets
OF the soldiers. He also was a jew.
The boy thief when interviewed at the
hospital, said: we got the money; we are
preparing for S~tolypin.'
The act was unquestionAbly one OF revo-
lnfiOnarv tarrOrianA and MT common
robbery.
A Brazilian citizen. who put his head
out Of the window Of his lodgings, was
wounded by the fragments of the bomb.
-Four unexploded bombs were found after
ward in the roadway.
The first anniversary Of the culm ma
ton of the general strike in the Cars
yielding with the October manifesto Of last
year finds the labor and revolutionary
leaders unprepared to repeat their memoir
able experiment.. Isolated strikes are ex-
pected about the SOth, but the railroad,
telegraph and postal services cannot this
year be paralyzed. and the attempt to tie
them up will not be renewed.
The revolutionary leaders say frankly
that the conditions for victory do not exist
now. They ascibe their success a year ago
10 the fact that nsither side was prepared.
The Government was not prepared with
suficisnt forces to protect the public services
or an alternative stan to work them, but it
is so prepared now. They agree also that
the completeness Of the strike a year ago
was chiefly due to the absence OF prepara-
ton. The entire nation ceased work in a
spirit Of unquestioning religious obedience
to the Lucrative idea.
The revolutionary organizations created
since then are largely tainted with spies
and there are many disputed leaderships.
1t 10 beginning TO be recognized that public
revolutionary agitation must wait until the
~peasantry and the army have advanced
further. The revolutionary parties are,
however. certainly stronger electorally than
they were before the first campaign. They
nave succeeded com pletely in making it
clear TO the vast mass Of the population
that the electoral battle is not on the merits
Of Premier Stolypin 'snumerous manifestoes,
but on the original fundamental issue Of
whether the autooracy or national repre-
sentation 10 to dominate Russia's future
governments.
There will be 1s2 900 voters In st. Peters,
burg - the coming election, Of whom Is 900
are State employees. The capitals six
members were all Kadeta Constitutional
Democrats) In tho FIRST election, when most
Of the workmen refused TO vote. This time
all the Norkmen have decided to vote,
The strength OF the radical movement
has produced Q tendency toward fusion
among the moderate parties. Their leaders,
including GutchkoK and Heyden, dined the
other night with members Of the Govern
ment, including NJ. KokovtseT, Secretary
Of the Treasury, and NJ. Fossovon, Minister
OF Commerce. M. Hayden told FlossovoG
that the Government was making q great
mistake in continuing to prescribe the
K&dets because Of the Viborg manifesto.
His observation Of the country had been that
political prosecution was helping the Kadets.
Most Of them would DO reelected by their
old constituencies, irrespective OF anything
that the Government might threaten.
The serious outlook here for the winter
may be judged by tho fact that the Gar has
decided TO pass the winter at ~Tzarskoe-Selo,
the usual court balls az the Winter Palace
having been cancslled.
The Council Of State has decided by a vote
Of % to 10 not TO deal separately with the
Jews, but to regard the Jewish problem as
forming part Of tho general question OF