Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-10
i AILVII ID AlLLEU
Military ProOuratOr Of Russia is Shot BY
Man Disguised a. Clerk.
ASSASSIN CAPTURED AFTER A CHASE
He Fires Many Shots, Killing Policeman
and WOunding Boy.
VICTIM KNOWN As HANGMAN PkVLoFF
Name Comes from Numerous Executions BE
Sanctioned in Baltic Provinces.
MANY EVIDENCES OF WIDESPREAD PLOT
Ease with which RevoIutiOnists Keep
Track of Movements of Oficials
Causes Alarm in Court
Circles.
Name Comes from Numerous Executions 81
Sanctioned in Baltic Provinces
MANY EVIDENCES OF WIDESPREAD Plo'

ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. e.-1Aeutenant
General Vladimir Pavlof' 'e military pro-
curator or advocate II, generally
known since the days y :, ate Parlia-
ment as 'Hangman Pr Il from the
epithet constantly applied n r. by the
radical deputies, was shot Il I'd at
10 o'clock this morning while ~. in
the garden of the chief military c. z. u Z
ing. near the Moika canal The L,/
who was disguised as a workman ~
captured after a long chase through
crowded city streets, during which he fiji
about forty shots from two revolvers which
he carried. killing a policeman and wound
ing a small boy
The crime was executed deliberately and
showed evidence OF the same careful prep
aration which was characteristic of the
murders OF Generals Ignatieff and Won Der
Launitz, and undoubtedly was carried out
by the same organization which, it is re-
ported has sentenced Emperor Nicholas
and several of the ministers to DEATH
Assasain in Disguise.
The assassin, who wore the uniform Of a
military clerk attached to the court. sue
ceeded in obtaining entrance to the garden
under the pretext of submitting report
TO the military procurator. He approached
the general within arms length, drew an
automatic pistol and discharged the whole
load, seven Shots into Pavloffs body.
Every shot was well aimed. Two of them
tore a gaping wound in the generals breast
from which he expired while being carried
to his apartments.
From the nature of the wounds II APP
peared that the stee-jacketed bullets were
fiattened at their ends in order that they
might infict more seriously. Hastily slip
volver 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
with crowd OF thirty house porters and
court attaches in pursuit.
policeman stationed in front of the I'm
perial 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 flight 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-
cented and captured at Lantern lane.
MOuthpiece of Bureaucracy.
After serving several years as military
Judge General Favloff was appointed judge
advocate of the war ministry and later
procurator of the supreme military court
He sprang into national prominence when
delegated TO answer interpretations of the
government in the lower house of Parlia.
ment in regard to the executions in the
Baltic provinces and Poland. He justified
these with such ld-bloodedness and dis
regard tha, 1t aroused the indignation OF
almost the entire house and he was driver
from the rostrum with cries OF Murderer
assassin When the general next ap
peared in the house he was not allowed tC
speak and was threatened with violence
The murdered general was a large lanC
owner. After the dissolution of Parlia
ment he organized the Protective Politica
league with the object of combating tn
radical projects for the appropriation o
landed estates and participated actively II
the present electoral campaign.
Plot Reaches High.
The police have established that youth
who was killed at the Grand hotel her
yesterday after he had made a bonfire o
nis papers and started firing a revolve
through the door OF his room. was mem
ber of the same terroristic organization
which has carried out the recent assassina
tions and had been detailed on a simlla
mission.
The information. which the social revolu
tionists have been able TO acquire of tn
movements of its marked victims indicate
widespread treachery In the military cour
and the greatest alarm is felt In oficia
circles where IL is believed reign o
tarror in ST. Petersburg has begun.
The assassin Of General Pavlofr was ap
parently informed by an accomplice anon
the court attaches that the general was 1
the garden at that hour, as the garden
entirely enclosed and today Is a holiday.