The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1907-01-12
"HANGMAN PAVL0ff"
killed BY ASSASSIN
ADVOCATE GENERAL OF RUSSIAN
ARMY SHOT DOWN IN ST.
PETERSBURG.
SLAYER is DISGUISED
AS A MILITARY CLERK
Makes Attempt to Escape After Com.
hitting Deed, But Is Captured Aft
or Killing Policeman and Wound
ing Boy.

st. Petersburg, Jan l0.-Lieutenant
General Vladimir Pavlon, the military
procurator or advocate general. gen
Grady known since the days OF the
late parliament as ''Hangman Pavloff,"
from the epithet constantly applied to
him by the radical deputies. was shot
and killed at ten O'clock Wednesday
morning while walking in the garden
of the chief military court building,
near the Moika canal.
The assassin. who was disguised as
military clerk, was captured after a
long chase through the crowded city
streets, during which he fired about 40
shots from two revolvers which he
carried. killing a policeman and
wounding a small boy.
The crime was executed deliberately
and showed evidence of the same care
full preparation which was character
istic Of the murders OF Generals Igna-
lief and Won Der l.aunitZ, and un-
doubtedly was carried out by the same
organization. which. it is reported, has
sentenced Emperor Nicholas and scv-
eral OF the minister's to death. The
assassin succeeded in obtaining an en-
trance to the garden under the pre-.
text of submitting a report to the mil.
itary procurator
Always With the Army.
The entire career of General Paw.
loft was in the judicial department of
the army. After serving several years
as a military judge no was appointed
judge advocate general of the war
ministry and later procurator of the
supreme military court.
General Pavloff sprang into national
prominence when he was delegated by
War Minister Rediger to answer the
interpretations of the government in
the lower house of parliament in re-
gard to courts-martial and executions
in the Baltic provinces and in Poland.
The military procurator justified
these with such coldbloodedness and
disregard of the sentiments of the
members that it aroused the indigna.
ton of almost the entire house, and
he was driven from the rostrum with
cries of Murderer" "Hangman!" GAS
sassin!" When the general next ap
peared in the house he was not al
lowed to speak and was threatened
with personal violence.
The murdered general was a large
land owner. After the dissolution OF
parliament he organized the Protec
tive Political league with the object of
combating the radical projects for the
appropriation of landed estates and
participated actively in the present
electoral campaign.
Treachery in Military Court.
Information which the social revo.
lutionists 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 cir
cles, where IL is believed a reign of
terror in ST. Petersburg has begun.
General Pavloff's assassin was ap.
parently informed by an accomplicc
among the court attaches that the gen.
era was in the garden at that hour
as the garden is entirely closed, and
Wednesday was holiday and the mil.
itary procurator was not following his
usual routine.
| General Dratchovsky, formerly Rus
| sian inspector general of railroads in
Finland, has been appointed project OF
ST. Petersberg in the place of General
Won der Launitz, who was recently as.
| sassinated. General Dratchovsky has
been project OF Taganrog.