Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-27
LIFE SAVED BY CHANGE OF SEAT
Former Deputy's Thrilling Experience
at Bomb Explosion.

NJ Moukhanoff, a member Of the late par
Lament, who at the time of the explosion
was waiting to see Premier Stolypin con-
corning permission to hold congress Of
the constitutional democratic party, says:
II was sitting with some twenty other
visitors. including several ladies, at a long
table in the waiting room, M. Stolypin
then being engaged with NJ. Polivanoff, a
marshal of the nobility of the province Of
Simbirsk and the president of the Smbirsk
zemstvo deputation. After waiting for
NJ Prisolkoff, a chamberlain of the court
in bay window overlooking the avenue
leading up to the house. ..
"A few seconds after the arrival of the
carriage bearing the assassins, which at
tracted my attention because visitors
suddenly hurled backward against the WALL
which my head struck. was so stunned
that I did not even hear the explosion.
When recovered consciousness I saw that
the ceiling and one Of the walls were gone,
and that the room was heaped with debris
from the floor above.
1.-The first word l heard came from the
lips of a mother superior, who was stand
praying before an ikon, Save US! Save us!
at the same time crossing herself She was
one Of six who escaped uninjured. The oc-
cupant of the chair l had formerly occu-
pied was killed on the spot.
Il then went into the garden, where /
came face to face with NJ. Stolypin. He had
complete mastery over himself and was
perfectly calm. l urged him not to go back
into the house, saying that there might be
another bomb there; but he insisted on re-
turning, saying, There may be wounded
persons in there The premiers face was
despatched with ink, thrown there by the
force Of the explosion
Arrest of Bomb Suspects.
Though dozens of suspected revolution
lists were gathered In at st. Petersburg yes
terday in connection with the bomb out
rage of Saturday, no important arrests
have been chronicled. The police have been
unsuccessful in getting on the real track
Of the conspiracy, beyond establishing from
the text of the death sentence found on the
body Of one Of the dead assassins that the
band belonged to the Maximists, better
known as the flying group" of the social
revolutionists. This group is thus desig-
mated because 1t operates on an unfixed
base. 1t has been responsible for most of
the recent assassinations, not having ac-
cepted the dictum Of the larger fighting
organization" of the social revolutionists
to discontinue activity during the session
of parliament.
Among the wounded in the hospital the
police yesterday found one of the four as
sassins who exploded the bomb at the resi-
dence of NJ. Stolypin.
Dictatorship Growing In Favor.
Talk of military dictatorship is again in
the air. According to a report current,
meeting of the camarilla discussed the
question last night at Peterhof, and a ma
jority was in favor of such step. Grand
Duke Nicholas Nicholaievitch who had Just
returned from calling on Premier Stoly-
pin, was especially In favor of the plan.
1t is said that after the meeting Grand
Duke Nicholas and others of the grand
dukes went to the emperor to demand his
authorization, but up to the present mo-
ment this has not been received.