New-York tribune., 1906-10-04
MORE RUSSIAN CRIMES.
FIGHT IN THE CAPITAL.
bombs Found-Da1ng Robbery on
Black Sea-Remession.

st Petersburg. Oct 2-Revolutionists this
AFTERNOON attacked the cashier of the branch
custom house here The police captured several
men after a fusillade. One man was killed The
firing occurred at the Bourse end Of the Palace
Bridge. hardly hundred yards from the Winter
Palace. and caused great excitement among tho
operators on the exchange
The cashier returning in carriage from
the Treasury with over $4,000 for the payment
of the salaries of employees when two men armed
with revovers sprang at the horses head and
seven others surrounded the vehicle and COW
cred the cashier with their revoNers. The police
apparently. had information of the plot. for
they Immediately surrounded and opened fire on
the revolutionists, who answered the fire and at
tempted to fee but ran into the arms of squad
of plain clothes policemen. One OF the rovolu-
tionists was killed and five were arrested. three
of them being students in uniform Three men
escaped.
The attack was at the spot where the saluting
battery on January 10, 1905. hrsd charge OF
grape at Emperor Nicholas at the time OF the
ceremony of blessing the waters Of the Neva
Four similar attacks on officials were made to-
day near Tifis.
The police to-day searched the laboratory OF
the Engineering Institute. which is attached 10
the Department of Ways and Communications
Forty DOnDS ana seventy pQuIlus OA uSLAaiAAA''
left by student named Ffnck. were discovered
F1nck's living rooms were subsequently searched.
and a large quantity of explosives was found
The police also found store of arms in the room
OF the of the janitor of the institute Finck
and number Of others arrested.
Twenty-Five men armed with revolvers and
rifles who boarded the Black Sea steamer Care
witch George at various points between Sukhun-
Kale. a port on the Black Sea. seventy miles
from Pot and Novorossyisk. on the east coast
succeeded in stealing $4,000 from the mail and
the ships treasury the night Of October 1.
Firing their weapons and shouting 10 the
steerage passengers not TO move the robbers
drove the crew into the steerage and occupied
the approaches to that part OF the ship. threat
ening the passengers and crew with death II
they resisted. The first class passengers fired
some shots at the robbers. but were forced to
cease owing to the robbers threat that they
would kill the captain, two mates and four
sailors whom they held as hostages. The rob-
bers compelled their hostages TO put them ashore
IN OF the ships boats
1t is reported that the Minister OF War has
been informed that the troops at Cronstadt In
innate that they will not shoot the nineteen
sailors sentenced TO death in connection with
the August mutiny. The court martial there to-
day began the trial of three leaders of the
mutiny board the torpedo gunboat Kazanetz
on August . Next week the court will begin
trying 295 members OF the crew OF the battle
ship Alexander II who refused to obey Captain
Petror's orders to assist in suppressing the
mutiny at Cronstadt.
a court martial at Libau. IN Courland. has
found twenty-three sailors OF the transport Riga
guilty OF mutiny IN August last and has SEN
fenced them 10 various terms OF imprisonment
at hard labor. The seriousness Of the August
mutiny revealed at the courts martial held
at Cronstadt. Helsingfors, Reval. Riga. Libau
and practically every Baltic port showing that
the entire feet was honeycombed with sedition.
An unreported mutiny Of the 21st East ST.
berian Regiment has been disclosed by the
dict OF court martial held at BlasovestcSenk.
which has sentenced six OF the ringleaders TO
death
Yesterdays record Of executions as the result
OF the sentences OF drumhead courts martial in
cludes four anarchists put TO death at Iieff and
seven bandits executed at Bakrnut- Nineteen
more executions are mentioned in this evenings
dispatches-ssven at Kherson, four at Warsaw,
three at Kielce. two at Mitau and one each at
Kalisz Batoum and Baku.