The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1907-01-04

Organization Issues Customary PrOc-
Iumation Avowing and Justifying the
Crime--Assassin About Twenty-Five
Years old-BelOngs to Intelligent
Glass of Workingmen.
st. Petersburg, Jan. 3.-The police
have not yet succeeded in Identifying
the terrorist who shot and killed Major
General Won Der Launitz, project OF
police of st. Petersburg, at the insti-
tute of Experimental Medicine, this
afternoon, and who cody turned the
revolver against himself while he was
falling under the sabres Of the projects
escort. The authorship of this crime,
however, like the recent assassination
of Count Ignatieff and the unsuccess-
full attempt to blow up Premier Stoly-
pin with a bomb, has been traced to
the fighting organization of the Social
Revolutionists, who recently resolved
to resume full terroristic activity. The
organization tonight issued the GUS
tomary proclamation avoWing and JUS
tifying the killing of General Won Der
Launitz, which was accomplished with
an ease and simplicity that has struck
terror into the hearts OF all other Of
fcials on the revolutionary death list.
The man who committed the crime
was about twenty-five years old, and
apparently belonged to the intelligent
working class. The police affirm he
was Jew. He was provided with
card of admission to the dedication Of
| the church. but this card bore no name.
The authorities have not been able to
larn how he obtained this invitotion to
| the ceremony, which was extremely
select, only about 150 invitations hav-
ing been issued.
Prince Peter Alexandrovitch, duke Of
| OldenIburg, is patron of the institute
| Among the guests present were his
WIFE Grand Duchess Olga, youngest
sister of Emperor Uicholas; Princess
! Eugenia Emilianoya, and a number of
other persons prominent at court.
The fact that General Won Den
Launitz was to attend the consecra-
of the church of the institute was not
generally known, and the terrorists
must have learned this from sources
within the police department. 1t has
developed that the prefect was accom-
panied to the church by his usual
/ bodyguard OF secret service men but
not one Of these had the slightest sus-
7 pici0n Of the murderer, although his
/ toil-stained hands were completely out
of harmony with his faultless evening
! clothes, a garb which everybody at
I tending official ceremonies in Russia
must don.
The fall of General Won Der Laun-
itz was followed by scene Of indes-
cribable hysteria and confusion. The
! Duke of Oldenburg who was one of the
| few men who retained their compo-
sure, seized the assassin's hand after
he had fired twice and the succeeding
shots were discharged into the ceiling.
But before the duke could disarm him
one of the officers who had accompan-
| led the prefect drew his sabre and
struck the assassin powerful blow
which completely cut out a portion of
| his skull AS the man was falling he
shot himself in the stomach with the
| last bullet in his revolver. His death
was instantaneous, but several officers
| CUIllHuCu W IldIh IIChiiHiSAiy tNt ITO
PROSTATE body until the duke of Olden-
burg struck up their swords and forced
| them to desist.
In addition to two persons arrested
within the church, the doors of which
were closed after the shooting, several
others We're taken into custody in a
neighboring factory, which is believed
to have served as headquarters for the
| terrorists,
| 1t was during the time that General
Won Der Lunitz was governor of Tam
bov that there occurred the terrible
repression Of the agrarian disorders in
Tambov province, and 1T was in retri-
button for these repressions that Maria
Spiridonovo, the Russian Joan of Are,
shot Chief OF Police Buzhenoffsky, one
of the subordinates of General Won Der
Launit2.