The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-09-11
ZEAL Baked PLOT
TO KILL THE GAR
CONSPIRATOR MADE CONFIDANT
OF WRONG MAN AND WAS
WATCHED.
GIRLS AND YOUTHS ARE IN It
Step by Step They Were Followed
and Incriminatcd and Only
Few Escaped.

81. Pc ERSB L RG, sept. J.
When the cort martial, recently adj
iourned, found the majority OF
eighteen prisoners guilty of conspir-
ing against the life of the car, the
public first gained an inkling of the
nature of the evidence against the
accused. Before that time much mys-
terry had been thrown about the case,
evidently with the hope of striking
terror into the hearts of the organ
lied assassins of Russia. The indict-
ment has now been made and it tells
the story of the conspiracy as fol-
lows:
In the summer of 1906, at Peter
hof, a Cossack of his majeStys own
convoy, Nicholas Ratimoff, made the
acquaintance of the son of the chief
of the palace telegraph Office, Nladi-
mir Naoumoff. The latter was con-
stantly speaking against the govern
ment and he sought to persuade Rati-
moff to open the eyes of the Cossacks
and the guards in order to provoke a
general mutiny. Naoumoff gave to
Ratimoff several copies of the Viborg
manifesto, and said that his aim was
to induce the Cossacks to arrest the
emperor and to bring him to the du-
ma Gen. Trepoff, commandant at
the palace at that time, was to be
assassinated by a bomb. Ratimoff re-
ported the whole thing to his COM
mander, Perepelowsky, who told it to
Prince Troubetskoy, the commander
of his ma esty's convoy. Ratimoff
was ordered to continue the acquaint-
ance with Naoumoff and to report
everything to the authorities.
Short Way to Glory.
The acquaintance, however, was
soon interrupted, as Naoumoff went
to st. Petersburg, and was not re-
newed until January, 1907, when
Naoumoff asked Ratimoff to visit him
at st. Petersburg. When Ratimoff
came to st. Petersburg Naoumoff be-
gan to eXhort him to kill the car.
Ratimoff was terrified by the project,
but Naoumoff assured him his name
would never be forgotten in Russia;
he would become a hero, and SO
forth Ratimoff definitely refused,
and Naoumoff asked him to give him
a plan of the Baboloff park, where
the car took his drives. He said it
was easy to blow up all the agents
of the secret police, as they resided
in the same place.
Ratimoff was then invited several
times to the house of a certain Con-
stantine Emme, at 80 Sadoyaya
street, where he made the acquaint-
ance of Anna Plight. The latter
used to explain to Ratimoff his role
in the struggle for freedom and point
out the absolute necessity of killing
the Grand Duke Nicholas and NJ.
Stolypin A certain Kit Purkin, who
was evidently a friend of Emme and
Plight, asked Ratimoff to tell him
how a stranger would be able to get
into the palace. Ratimoff gave all
the details, inasmuch as Naoumoff
told him they had their own men in
the palace and could verify his state
ments Should these be untrue, Rat
imoff would hardly escape death.
Ratimoff also gave a detailed plan
of the palace at Tsarskoe Selo, show
ing the entrance through which the
Cossacks of the convoy usually
brought the cars correspondence.
"Comrade Irene" Appears.
The detective police department,
on being informed by the military
established a close surveillance over
Naoumoff and his accomplices. 1t
ascertained in January, 1907, that a
member of the gang who had assas-
sinated the project of ST. Petersburg,
Gen. Won der Launitz-namely: Vol
demar Hiftar, had visited Naoumoff.
1t was likewise ascertained that, be-
sides Hiftar, a certain "Comrade"
rrnn cly
murderer had taken part in the as
sassination of the project. Hiftar
and Gronsky were arrested, while
"Comrade" Irene left Imatra, and
came to St. Petersburg, where she
lived with Nikitenko under the name
of his sister, Ludmila Nikitenko
They had a servant, who called her
self Daruschetcheff, but whose real
name was Mary Prokofieva.
Col Ouranoff, the chief of a sec
ton of the secret police in the Cri-
mean peninsula, reported that Bull
gakovsky arrived at Sebastopol at the
beginning of April, in order to or
ganize the assassination of the Grand
Duke Nicholas, who was expected in
the Crimea on April 30. At about
the same time the postofIice at Sc
bastopol was attacked and sacked by
this party. The police at st. Peters
burg were meanwhile closely watch
ing Purkin and Nikitenko. The in
dictment enumerates all the confer
ences of the revolutionaries. The
last conference was held on April -
The members of the association were
then ready to act, having obtained
powerful explosives. On April 10 al
the revolutionists were arrested, save
Speransky, Nadia Filipchenko, ant
"Comrade" Irene, who disappeared