New-York tribune., 1907-10-29
MAXIMOFFSKY KILLED.
4 WOMAN THE ASSASSIN.
Russian General in Charge of Prisons
Murdered an Office.

81 Petersburg oct. 2S.-General Maximoffsky.
director Of the department of prisons of the
ministry of the Interior, was shot and killed to-
dav by q young woman who presented herself at
the weekly reception OF General MaXimOffsky
and remained quietly in the crowded anteroom
,,ntU II was her turn to enter the generals pri-
yate Office When she was in his presence the
woman drew a revolver and fired seven shots at
the eeneraI six bullets taking effect. The
wounded man was hastily carried to the hospi-
ta1 of the Grand Duchess Catherine Pavlona,
hut his condition was hopeless.
The assassin was identified tonight by Mile
Ragoziunikova. of Perm province. the daughter
of a teacher in the Imperial Conservatory Of
Music. When she was taken 10 the police sta
tion her attempts to free her bound hands and
reach toward her breast led to an investigation
Il was found that she carried inside her corsage
a case containing thirteen pounds Of a high ex-
ploSiye a charge powerful enough to blow the
entire building and its occupants to pieces, and
the assassination of General MaximonslIy ap-
parently was designed to be only a prelude to a
greater act of teTrorisn-the destruction OF the
headquarters of the secret police-which has
been the object of at least three terrorist plots
of recent months.
Mile RagozinnikOva's portrait is in that part
Of tne police gallery marked dangerous sus-
hours in General Maximoffsky's reception room
unrecognized She pretended that her mission
there was TO obtain better diet for her brother.
who is sick in prison. It is understood she will
be court martialled this week
The generals assassin, who was captured i'm
mediateIy after firing the shots, unhesitatingly
avowed herself TO be an emissary of the North
ern Flying Section of the Social Revoutionists,
who had the task Of Furnishing Naximoffsky for
the stern system which he lately had intro
duced in the treatment of important political
prisoners whom he ordered TO be treated like
ordinary criminals.
General Maximoffsky was sponsor for Gov
error Borodulin, of Akatui prison. Siberia, who
recently was killed at Pakoff, where he was
spending his vacation. Borodulin was the jailer
of Mile Spiridonova. whose three torturers were
Rssassinated. A1aximoffsky also upheld Gov
ernor Metus. head OF the prison at Riga, who
was assassinated for alleged tortures inflicted on
revolutionary captives. Colonel Iyanoff. Gov
ernor Of the political prison at viborg, who
Maxlmofsky's instruments.
The introduction OF soldiers into the prisons
TO preserve discipline was one Of the most
oetested measures of AIaximoffsky, as a num-
Der OF male and female prisoners were killed by
the soldiers for transgressing prison rules
An attempt was made yesterday TO assassnate
MRkhrlud Bekof, vice-governor OF the political
prison OF Viborg. Several shots were fired at
Belof. but they struck portfolio containing a
steel plate, which he used shield.
Kursk, Oct. 2S.-An Internal machine was ex-
ploded on the railroad track near here to-day in
an attempt TO wreck train bound for Sebasto-
pol. The track was torn up, but the locomotive
was only slightly damaged.