Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-09
''AANGMAN" PAVLOFF
TERROR|STS' VICTIM
ASSasSinated While WALKING in
a Military Garden.
SEVEN SHOTS IN THE BODY
Policeman Who Attempted to Arrest
Assassin Also Murdered.
ACC0MPLICE AMONG ATTACHES
Crime Appears to Be the Result Of q
WellLaid Plot-Career Of
Dead Man.
Policeman Who Attempted to Arrest
Assassin Also Murdered.
ACC0MPLICE AMONG ATTACHES

| ST. PETERSBURG, January 9-IIeut
| Gen. Vladimir Pavoff, the military pro.
| curator or advocate general, generally
known since the days of the late parlia-
| ment as "Hangman Pav.oT," from the
epithet constantly applied to :. m by the
| radical deputies, shot and killed ut 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 a long chase through the crowded city
| streets, during which he fired about .orty
| shots from two reviewers which he carried
killing policeman and wounding 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. Ignatier and Won Der l-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 a military clerk at
tached to the court, succeeded in obtaining
an entrance to the garden under the pretext
| OF submitting report to the military pro-
curator. He approached the unsuspecting
matte pistol and discharged the whole load,
seven shots, into Pavloff's body Every
shot was well aimed, and two of them
tore gaping wound in his breast, from
which the general expired while being car
| ried to his apartments, which were located
in the same building.
With Flattened Bullets.
From the nature of the wounds 1t ap-
peared that the steel-jacketed bullets were
;,, thai,-
| the crime. in order that they might infiict
| more serious Wounds. Hastily slipping an
other clip of cartridges into his revolt
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 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.
wounding 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-
copied and captured at Lantern lane.
The entire career of Gen. Pavloff was in
| the judicial department of the army. After
serving several years a military judge
he was appointed judge advocate general of
the war ministry and later procurator of the
supreme military court.
Dubbed a Hangman.
Gen. Pavloff sprang into national prom
inence when he was delegated by WaS-Min-
lister Rediger to answer the interpretations
of the government in the lower house OF
parliament In regard to courts-martal 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
| ii 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 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 a mem
her of the same terroristic organization
which has carried out the recent assassin
atoms and had been detailed on a similar
mission. But the authorities have not been
able to ascertain who was the youths in
tended victim as 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 its marked victims indicates
the existence of widespread treachery In the
military court, and the greatest alarm is
felt in official circles, where ii is believed.
that reign of terror in st. Petersburg has
begun.
The assassin of Gen. Pavloff was appar-
entity informed by accomplice among
the court attaches that the general was
in the garden at that hour, the garden
is entirely inclosed, and today is a 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 Missed, 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 up the repreves OF
several of them, allowing them to be exc
cuted in accordance with their original
sentence. He was attached to a large num-
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