Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-04-27
RUSSIA AND ROYALTY
! Shadow That DarkenS the
 Path of the Czars.
THE FEAR OF ASSASSINATION

M snder II. and the Bomb That Shat @ tered His Body-An Internal Machine H That Failed to Kill Alexander Ill. 4s Tho shadow that falls across the path KY tha czars may extend the world Y #8 nrnd. Wherever the ruler of all the nssias may happen to te, there the hadow of fear lies.
 Once in Paris, once in the palace s3 rdans Alexander II. was fired at rain in the Winter Palace square |sz solorieff. wearing the uniform of # official. passed the guards one day, E again the czar was fired upon. 5 exander rahVfor the palace. Solo. a|5 ,f followed him and fired three aY1 nes. The czar ran in zigzags. how pr and so escaped. Not long after rd two mines were laid to blow up
 imperial train. One did not ex- $ de but the second wrecked the x In Once more the cZar escaped. r tching eyes had saved him, their hers having persuaded the ruler to another train.
 ater Alexander II. owed his life to fact that he came late to a func-
 at the palace. A bomb blew clean la large portion of the imperial resi- ce, but the czar was not present.
 6t of all the attempts on the lives Russia's rulers two stand out most rly for their amazing ingenuity.
 tells the story of little unpre' ious shop in Malaja Sadovaja
 t. Kobozeff, then unknown to police, took the shop and set out Impress the police, who were al- Ss making sudden inspections of hises along the thoroughfares
 hch which Alexander II. passed,
 he was nothing but provision 4 IT, Nearly every one in that ll was a paid spy, but Kobozeff
 with his customers, pleased his {. evcrs and was most affable and
 tently harmless.
 dealer inspired confidence, and '. Iustom increased gradually. No
 Ter. for most of the parcels that
 hstoners were carrying away by
 contained nothing but earth . that during the night hours had | scraped by the man and his from beneath the street: It was
 ch ingenious method that tun- ) as hollowed and cleared under . oroughfare and a mine laid be-
 the way the czar often passed, . hocent couch upon which the u wife slept covering the entry to M nnel.
 Iall the work was useless. On E the scheme was to be carried czar upset all the arrange
 by going off to lunch with the
 Duchess Catherine Michaelovna. I hg those who were watching on of the terrorists was beauti- :. Ia countess, too-named Pe-
 "a. It was she who. seeing the U arrangements. gave warning.
 ar would return to the palace way. Along this route four |, trying bombs were stationed. few his. Men and horses were
 ll around. but the czar stepped X1, s coach unscathed. A second w blding a bomb came forward
 ew 1t. "This time the effect ,,o,,r ful," says Waclaw Gasiorow- po describes the incident in his D Wo Tragic Russia" ''The czar fell
 [ by a scythe. His legs were
 to pieces" So died the czar , of d escaped as by a miracle
 mes.
 rk der III. followed. and there aod Ftempts upon his life. The lo0u, ., vas one of the most sensa- ml the entire list of nihilist plots.
 bright autumn day the impe-
 travelled at full speed on the
 II guarded by soldiers. It was a noon. The imperial family o0 the dining car, where lunch O 1t to be served. The cook and
 were making the last prepara.
 It when an assistant was
 krt physician attended the
 having stated that he had ' th symptoms of some inex- E1 ilment, decided that the man Es remain in the imperial train. as left at the next station.
 m moved forward toward 5, veling at the speed of eighty ts1A-A an hour. Then the cleo