Tensas gazette., 1908-02-28
WELL ARRANGED
MURDER PLOT
TERRORIST ASSOCIATION FRAN
ED UP WHOLESALE MURDERS.
CZAR'S COUSIN ESCAPED
Police Discover and Frustrate Assas-
sination Plan-Bombs, Deadly Ex-
plosives and Guns Found in Secret
Chamber, and Tenant is Arrested.


st. Petersburg-An official an
nouncement was made by the min
istry of the interior, concerning the
plot which was discovered and frus-
trated two days ago by the police,
the object of which was the assassl-
nation of Grand Duke Nicholas Mich
oliacviteh,, second cousin of Emperor
Nicholas and commander of the I'M
perial Guard, and NJ. Chiteheglovitoff,
the minister of justice. The details
correspond to those already given IN
these dispatches.
The official announcement ascribes
the attempt directly to the social revo-
lutionary party, whose terrorist asso-
citation was reorganized in May of last
year after having been allowed to
lapse since the congress held IN Fin
land in the spring of 1906.
At the time of the reorganization
the sum of $4,000 monthly was as
signed for espionage, and the prepa-
ration of bombs and other instru-
ments of death. The group to which
the execution of these latest crimes
was entrusted is officially designated
as the "Mobile Fighting Detachment
Of the Northern District"
The social revolutionary party four
months ago made an unsuccessful at
tempt to assassinate Minister Chiteh-
eglovitoff on the occasion of the fu-
neral of Gen. Maximoffsky, director
of prisons of the ministry of the in
terror, who was killed in this city by
Mmlee. Ragozinnikora, and is respon-
sible also for the assasinations OF
Lieut.. Gen. Vladimir Paploff, Jan. 9,
1907; Maj. Gen. Won Der Launitz, on
January %, 1907, and NJ. Guidema,
governor of the political prison on
Basil Island on January 80, of the
same year. The murderer of NJ. Gui-
dema, for whom the police have been
se,>ching in vain since the crime Is
ambng those arrested day before yes
terday. This group of terrorists is IN
no wise connected with the Maximal-
ist organization which executed the
attempt on Premier Stolypin at his
villa in this city and which has fig
ured in several big political robber-
les in st. Petersburg and Moscow.
The selection of Grand Duke Nicho-
las and M. Chitcheglovitoff for assas-
sination has occasioned some remark
as neither the grand duke nor the
minister has been prominent in re-
pressive measures. In NJ. Chitcheglovi
toff, the revolutionists apparently
were not trying to kill the man but
the head of the department respon-
sible for the political trials of the
last year as well as the prison re-
gime under which thousands of revo-
lutionists have suffered. Grand Duke
Nicholas, although not directly con-
nected with the administration ex-
cept by his position of nominal COM
mander of troops in st. Petersburg
has been held up by the revolutionists
to the popular gaze as the patron of
the reaction organization and a ma
levolent influence on Emperor Mich
olas.
The police have discovered on Ba-
sill Island the headquarters of the
Northern organization. In secret
chamber were found, in addition to a
quantity of revolvers and cartridges,
two powerful bombs of the finest
workmanship and great quantity of
new explosives of enormous force.
The tenant of the building where this
find was made was arrested in the
street with bomb in his pocket and
has been identified as an accomplice
in the murders of Lieut. Gen. Pavloff,
Maj. Won Ded Launitz and Gen. Ma
mixoffsky.
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