Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-01-10
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BY THE AEDS
Assassin Wore MiIiiar bifOrm
As Disguise Organ Elton
Has Doomed Ca

ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. i0.-Lieu-
tenant General Vladimir Pa loft, mill
tary p%rocurator or advocate general,
generally known since the latA parlia-
ment as "IIangman PavlofT," vNls shot
and killed here while walking IN the
garden of the chief military &ourt
building.
The crime was executed deliberately
and showed the same careful prepara-
ton characteristic of the murders of
Generals Ignatieff and Won der Lau-
nitz and was undoubtedly carried out
by the same organization which has
sentenced Emperor Nicholas and sew
eral of the ministers to death.
The assassin. who wore the uniform
of a military clerk attached to the
court. succeeded in obtaining an en-
trance to the garden under the pretext
of submitting a report to the military
procurator.
He approached the unsuspecting gen.
eral within arms length, drew a rapid
fire pistol and fired the whole load,
seven shots, in quick succession into
Pavloff'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 carried to his apartments
neal by.
From the nature of the wounds it APP
peared that the steel jacketed bullets
We're dun -dummed"- that is, they
were fiattened out of. their regular
shape that they might infllct more seri-
Gus wounds.
Hastily slipping another clip of
cartridges into his empty revolver and
drawing a second weapon, the assas-
sin ran across the garden to the car
rage entrance, threatened the porter
with his pistols and dashed down Gin
ka street, past the Imperial Opera
house, with a crowd of house porters
and court attaches in close pursuit.
A policeman in front of the opera
house attempted to seize the assassin,
but was shot dead by the man, who
turned and opened fire on his p%ursuers,
w%ounding a boy.
The terrorist then resumed his flight,
firing right and left at police officers
and porters. The result was that his
ammunition rapidly became exhausted
and he was intercepted and captured
when he reached Lantern lane.
General Pavloff's assassin was APP
parently informed by an accomplice
among court attaches that the general.
was in the garden, as the garden is en-
tirely inclosed, and on account of it be-
ing a holiday the military procurator
was not following his usual routine.
At the police station the murderer
was in the highest spirits in view of
now simply and easily his plan was ex-
ccuted and answered the officers ques-
tons with laughing jeers.
General Pavloff died while being
moved to his apartments in the Mill
tary Tribunal building. He was fifty
five years old and leaves a widow and
two children.
Few men in st. Petersburg were
more cordially despised than the procu-
rator. "Hangman Pavloff." Beginning
his public career in the judiciary de-
partment of the army, he was made
military judge, next judge advocate
general of the war ministry and then
procurator of the supreme military
court.
General Pavloff was president Of the
recent court martial at Cronstadt
which tried the mutineers who TOOK
part in the outbreak of last August.
While it was in session the terrorists
,,,odo n, oftop,pt tn hIax- ~ tl,o l.,,tII
ing. He went before the last douma as
The representative of the government
and %insolently attempted to defend the
military executions which had then
aroused public Indignation. The mem
bers of the douma Kissed him down,
and he was compelled to leave the
building.
1t has been practically a ~foregone
conclusion that General Pavloff was
destined for n violent death. His atti-
tude in regard to the execution of mu
tineers in the army and navy and his
refusal to respect the wishes and de
mands of the douma and desist from
these executions made him one of the
most bitterly hated men in all the
country.
Vice Admiral Doubassoff. ex-gov-
ernor general of Moscow and at pres
emf n member of the council Of empire,
has received notification that another
attempt upon his life will be made.
Vice Admiral Doubassoff incurred
the enmity of the revolutionists by his
repression of the Moscow disorders of
last year. His life has been threaten
ed many times, and several plots to
assasslnate him have been frustrated.