Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1906-08-31
MANY SLAUGHTERED BY BOMB.
Details of Attempt on Life of Premier
Stolypin.

Details OF Attempt on Life Of Premier
Stolypin.
ST. PETERSBURG. Aug. 27.-Thir-
ty-tW0 persons were killed and nearly
fifty injured in the attempt to Stay Pre-
micr Stolypin in his home on Saturday.
Premier St5olypin escaped with only 4
slight wound in the head. The louI
terrorists who tried to kill him were
blown to pieces with their own bomb.
The premicr's residence was practical
ly demolished. His 15-year-old daughter
died of injuries and his 5-year-old son
may die
Prominent Men Killed.
The list Of the dead includes many
men prominent in official life. They
We're:
GEN. zA,lEATIN, the premier's personal
secretary.
COUNT DAVIDOFF, court chamberlain
COUNT VORONEN, court chamberlain.
PRINCE NACHACHIDZE, delegate from
the Caucasian nobility.
PRINCE SCHERWACHIDZ, delegate
from the Caucasian nobility.
COL. FEDEROFF, chief of the premier $
personal guard.
LIEUT.. DOUBASSOFF, premiers mill,
NJ. KOvOSKCFF, ex-governor of the pro,
vince of PcnZa.
Chief Assassin Identified.
The chief assassin, who was killed by
the bomb he himself hurled, has been
identified as a man named MOrOsOff, Il
citizen of the province of Rlazan. He
arrived i'll st. Petersburg on Thursday
and with his wife took furnished apart
ments in BClshala Morskaia, u fashion
able street leading to the winter palace.
Saturday he wore the uniform of cap
tain OF gcndarmes, and it is presumed
he had the bomb under his cloak. 1t is
known that Friday night he attended a
performance at the Olympia concert gar
den, where he displayed excessive gay
ETY.. His wife has not been seen since
he started for Premier Stoiypin'S resi-
dence i'll the morning. 1t is supposed
she went to the railway station to secure
tickets for their departure.
The other three cOnspiratOrs were
killed
Among the dead are four women and
| two children.
Reception Rooms Crowded.
The large number of victims is ex-
planned by the fact that Saturday was
the premier's weekly reception day at
his country home on Aptekarsky island.
Premier Stolypin's rooms We're crowded.
as the reception had been i'll progress
before the aSSasslnS arrived.
The conspirators arrived in a landau.
| There were four of them, three being
dressed in the Uniform of gendarmes-
The fourth wore civilian attire. 1t was
assumed by the troops and the police
that the civilian was Il prisoner VINO, by
the lntercoSSiOn of some exalted person
age, had been allowed to make a per
sonaI appeal to the premier and had
been brought under custody for that
purpose.
Stories of Outrage Differ.
Several different stories are told of the
manner III which the bomb was thrown.
The only eye witnesses are dead and
just what happened in that awful cham
Der of death will never be known.
One story is that the four conspirators
entered the reception room. one of them
having the bomb concealed under his
military cloak. Once inside the room
he hurled it,
Another story has it that the bomb
was hurled through the bay window Of
the reception room.
Dropped in a Scuffle?
Still another version says that the con-
spiratOrs drove up to the premierS resi-
dente after the list of visitors had been
closed. The servant refused them adj
mission, at which they attempted to
force an entry to the house. \ strug-
gle ensued at the entrance to the ante
room. during the course of which the
terrorist disguised as gendarme
dropped a bomb, which exploded de-
stroying the ante-rOOm. the adjoining
guardroom, part of the reception room,
and also the balcony of the first floor.
Premier Stolypin is suffering from Sc
we're cerebral shock and doctors are at
tending him. The Gar has sent him a
personal letter of congratulation over his
escape and coincidence over the death of
his daughter.