The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-02-23
MURDER PLOTS
COME TO HAUGHT
Assassination of Cousin of
Gar Nicholas Prevented
by Police.
TERR0RISTS AGAIN ACTIVE
HEADQUARTERS OF BAND ON
BAIL ISLAND.
TERRoRlSTS AGAIN ACTIVE

ST. Petersburg. Feb. 22-An official an
nouncement was made today by the min
istry of the interior concerning the plot
which was discovered and frustrated two
days ago by the police, the object of
which was the assassination of Grand
Duke Nicholas Nicholaievitch. second
cousin of Emperor Nicholas. and COM
msnder of the imperial guard, and NJ.
Chtcheglovitoff, the minister of justice.
The details correspond to those already
given in these dispatches.
The official announcement ascribes the
attempt directly to the social revolution
airy party, whose terrorist association
We're reorganized in May of last year after
having been allowed to relapse after the
Of 1906. At the time of reorganization the
sum of $4,000 monthly was assigned for
espionage and the preparation of bombs
and other instruments of death. The
group to which the execution of these
latest crimes was entrusted is officially
designated as the mobile fighting de-
tachment of the northern district
other Grimes Committed.
The social revolutionary party four
months ago made an unsuccessful attempt
TO assassinate Minister Chtchegovitoff on
the occasion Of the funeral of General
Maxmimoffskyy, director of prisons of the
ministry of the interior, who was killed
in this city by Mile. Ragozinnikova. and
it is responsible also for the assassinations
of Lieutenant General Vladimyr Pavaloff
Jan. 9, 1907, Major General Won der Laun-
itz on Jan. 3. 1907, and NJ. Guidema, gov
ernor of the political prison on BAIL
island on Jan. 80 of the same year. The
murderer of NJ Guidema for whom the po-
lice have been searching in vain since the
crime, is among those arrested day before
yesterday. The group of terroristS is in
no wise connected with the Maximalist or
ganizatiOn which executed the attemDt
of 7ic villa aSG
city in 1906 and which has put through
several big political rObberieS in st. Pc
tersburg and Moscow.
The selection of Grand Duke Nicholas
and NJ. ChtcheglOvitoff for assassination
has occasfoned some remark. as neither
the grand duke nor the minister has been
prominent in repressive measures.
System, Not the Man.
In ChtchegIovitoff the revolusionists ap-
parently were trying to kill rot the man,
but the head of the department respon-
sible for the political trials of the last
year as well as the prison regime under
which thousands of revolutiOnsts have
suffered. Grand Duke Nicholas. although
not directly connected with the admins
tration except by his position of nominal
commander of the troops in St. Peters
burg. has been held up by the revolution
lists to the popular gaze as the patron of
the reactiOnary organization and a male
violent influence upon Emperor Nicholas
island the headquarters of the northern
organization. In a secret chamber were
found, in addition to a quantity of revOl-
VerS and cartridges. two powerful bombs
of the finest workmanship and a great
quantity of a new explosive of enormous
force The tenant of the building where
this find was made. and who was ar
rested on the street with a bomb in his
pocket has been identified as an accom-
plice in the murders of Lieutenant Gen
eral Pavloff. Major General Won Der
L2unitz and General MaximoffskY
Four dodgers in the building two men
and two women. also were arrested and
are now confined in a fortress The two
women arrested Yesterday in Finland are
shut up in the same fortress. 1t is report
ed that the wife and sister-in-law of a
millionaire merchant named Meshkoff,
whose house was among those searched
by the police. are being held as members
of the organization NJ. Meshkoff is the
owner of fifty steamers plying on the
Nolga.