New-York tribune., 1908-02-23
RUSSIAN PLOTS Barred
THE RECENT POLICE RAID.
Prisoners accused of Many Crimes
-Weolfha FdmilY I'm pHcdted.

St Petersburg Feb. oo-An official announce
ment was made this morning by the Ministry Oh
the Interior concerning the plot which was as
covered 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 Commander OF
the Imperial Guard. and ]. C. Chtcheglovitof,
the Minister of Justice. The official statement
shows how narrow the escape of the grand
duke and the mininter as the assassins had
taken their stations at points where the intended
victims were soon due to pass on their way 70
the Tsarskoe-Selo railroad station. The official
announcement ascribes the attempt directly to
the Social Revolutionary party whose terrorist
wing was reorganized in May last year after
having been allowed to lapse since the congress
held in Finland in the spring 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 intrusted is officially
designated the mobile fighting detachment
Of the northern district"
Inc Social Revolutionary party four months
ago made an unsuccessful attempt to ASA assinat..
Minister Chtcheglovitoff at the funeral of Cen
eral Maximoffsky, director of prisons of the Min
lstry OF the Interior, who was killed in this CITY
by Mile Ragozinnikova and it is responsible
also Tor the assassinations of Lieutenant General
Vladimir Pavlof on January 8, 1907, Major Cen
erai Won der Launitz January s. 1907 and
M Guidema, governor OF the political prison on
Basil Island, on January 30 of the same wear
The murderer of NJ. Guidema, for whom the
police have been searching in vain since the
crime, is among those arrested the day before
yesterday This group of terTorists is not con-
nected with the organization which attempted
TO Kill Premier Stolypin at his villa in this CITY
in 1905
Neither Grand Duke Nicholas nor NJ. Chtcheg-
IoEltoH mas oeen identified with repressive meas
ures. In NJ. Chtcheglovitof the revoIutionfsts
apparently were trying to kill not the man bur
the head Of the department responsible for the
political trials Of the last year. as well as the
prison system under which thousands of revolu-
uonIsts have suffered Grand Duke Nicholas
although not directly connected with the admin
istration except by his post of nominal COM
rnander of the troops in ST Petersburg has been
regarded by the revolutionists as the patron of
the reactionary organization and d maIevolent
influence on Emperor Nicholas.
The police have discovered on Basil Island the
headquarters OF the northern organization. The
HrSl search, made by the regular police. was
fruitless- The second was made by the gem
darrnes and revealed a secret chamber in which
We're found, in addition TO many revolvers and
cartridges. two powerful bombs of the finest
Workmanship and great quantity Of new
explosive of great force. The tenant of this
building. who arrested on the street with
a bomb in his pocket. has been identified as an
accomplice in the murders Of Lieutenant Cen
eral Pavlof, Major General Won der Launitz and
General Maximcfsky. -Four lodgers in the
building, two men and two women. also were
arrested and confined in a fortress
The TWO women arrested yesterday in Finland
are shut up in the same fortress. 1t is reported
that the wife and sister-in- law of a wealthy
merchant named Neshkoff. whose house was
among those searched by the police are being
held as members of the organization. NJ. Mesh
koff is the owner Of fifty steamers plying on
the EoIga.