Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-09
''HANCMAN" PAVLOFF
TERROR|STS' VICTIM
ASSasSinated While Walking in
a Military Garden.
SEVEN SHOTS IN THE BODY
Policeman Who Affemnfad <o Arrao%
SEVEN SHOTS IN THE BODY
Policeman Who Attempted to Arrest
Assassin Also Murdered.
ACC0MPLICE AMONG ATTACHES
Crime Appears to Be the Result of a
Well-Laid Plot-Career of
Dead Man.


Gen. Vladimir Pavloff, the military pro-
curator or advocate general, generally
known since the days of the late parlia-
ment as 'Hangman Pavloff," from the
epithet constantly applied to =. m by the
radical deputies, was shot and killed at 10
O'Clock this morning while walking in the
garden of the chief military court building
near the Moika canal. The assassin who
was disguised as workman, was captured
after long chase through the crowded city
streets during which he fired about .orty
shots from two revovers which he carried.
killing a policeman and woundng a small
boy.
Executed Deliberately.
The crime was executed deliberately and
showed evidence of ,he same careful prepa-
ration which was characteristic of the MUIR
ders of Gems. Ignatieff and Won Der I-aun-
itz, and undoubtedly was carried out by the
same organization which, it is reported, has
sentenced Emperor Nicholas and several of
the ministers to death. The assassin, who
wore the uniform of military clerk at
tached to the court, succeeded in obtaining
an entrance to the garden under the pretext
of submitting a report to the military pro-
curator. He approached the unsuspecting
general within arms length, drew an auto
matte pistol and discharged the whole load,
seven shots. into PavIoff's body Every
shot was well aimed, and two of them
tore a gaping wound in his breast, from
which the general expired while being
rted TO his apartments, which were located
in the same building.
With Flattened Bullets.
From the nature of the wounds it APP
peared that the steel-jacketed bullets were
nattened in their ends in preparation for
the crime. in order that they might infiict
more serious wounds. Hastily slipping an
other clip of cartridges into his revol-
yer and drawing a second weapon, the
assassin ran across the garden to the car
riage entrance, threatened the porter with
his pistols and dashed down Glinka street,
past the imperial opera house, with a crowd
of thirty house porters and court attaches
in close pursuit.
Policeman Shot Down.
A policeman stationed in front of the
opera house attempted to seize the assassin,
but was shot down by the latter who
turned and opened fire on his pursuers,
woundng a boy. The assassin then re-
sumed his hight through the streets. firing
at the police officers and house porters who
attempted to bar his way. When his am
munition became exhausted he was inter-
cepted and captured at Lantern lane
The entire career of Gen. Pavloff in
the judicial department of the army. After
serving several years as a military judge
he was appointed judge advocate general of
the ministry and later procurator of the
supreme military court.
Dubbed Hangman.
Gen. Pavloff sprang into national prom
inence when he was delegated by War Min
lister Rediger to answer the interpretations
of the government in the lower house of
parliament in regard to courts martial and
executions in the Baltic provinces and in
Poland The military procurator justified
these with such cold-bloodedness and disre-
gard of the sentiments of the members that
it aroused the indignation of almost the en-
tire house, and he was driven from the ros-
trum with cries of Murderer" Hang
man." Assassin" When the general next
appeared In the house he was not allowed
to speak and was threatened with personal
violence.
The murdered general was a large land
owner. After the dissolution of parliament
he organized the Protective Political
League, with the object of combating the
radical projects for the appropriation of
landed estates, and participated actively in
the present electoral campaign.
The police have established that a youth
who was killed at the Grand Hotel here
yesterday after he had made a bonfire Of
his papers and started firing revolver
through the door of his room was MEM
Der of the same terroristic organization
which has carried out the recent assassin
ations and had been detailed on a similar
mission. But the authorities have not been
able to ascertain who was the youths in
tended victim, delay in storming his
room gave him time to destroy almost all.
his papers.
The information which the social revolu-
tionists have been able to acquire of the
movements of it's marked victims indicates
the existence of widespread treachery in the
military court, and the greatest alarm is
felt in official circles where, it is believed,
that a reign of terror in st. Petersburg has
begun.
The assassin of Gen. Pavloff appar-
emily informed by an accomplice among
the court attaches that the general was
in the garden at that hour, the garden
is entirely incIosed, and today is holiday
and the military procurator was not FOL
lowing his usual routine.
Gen. Pavloff belonged to the legal rather
than to the fighting arm of the service.
He was bitterly hated by the radical ele-
ment Of the duma. He had to render a
number of reports during the recent sit
ting of parliament. and was never allowed
to speak peacefully, being Kissed, booted
and interrupted by the radical deputies.
He was the judge advocate of the court
that tried the mutineers of Cronstadt, and
Is accused of having he'd up the reprieyes OF
several of them, allowing them to be exc
cuted in accordance with their original