Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-16
Russian Premier Shot Twice While
Attending Gala Performance
at Municipal Theater.
HOPE FOR RECOVERY EXPRESSED
Bullets Pass Through the Pleura and
Craze the Liver.
MURpERER A LAWYER
Audience Thrown Into a Panic, but
Car Restores Order
WOUNDED MAN IS CARRIED AWAY
Attack is Made Upon Royalty During
the IntermissiOn Following the
Second Act of the Per-
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K1Ev. Russia sept i5.-rhe Russian pre-
mier. p A. stolypin, was attacked while
attending a gala performance st the opera
last night He was wounded twice by his
assailant one bullet entered his hand.
whole the other penetrated his body. graz
ing the liver and lodging in the spine.
Emperor Nicholas was present in the
theater at the time. The premiers assailant
was arrested
The two bullets were fired from behind
by lawyer named Bogroff. The audience
tried to lynch the assassin.
The minister of finance. NJ. Kossovsoff.
was sitting beside the premier at the time
of the attack
There appears to be ground for hope
today that Pemier Stolypin will for the
third time survive the attack Of an assas-
sin.
Fired on at close rage as he sat defense
less in his chair at the Municipal theater
last night the premier escaped with two
wounds, neither of which, it is said, are
necessarily fatal A dispatch sent to the
premer's brother, Alexander stolypin, at
St Petersburg, in the early morning,
stated that the patients condition was
very Satisfactory and the surgeons had
not deemed an operation necessary. Their
tentative judgement was that the bullets
had wounded the pIeura and grazed the
liver A pulse of 70 was recorded.
Chooses oppOrtune Time.
Following his removal from the play
house. the wounded man slept for four
hours. after which the first consultation
was held.
The assassination was attempted under
dramatic circumstances. The would-be
murderer, who described himself as a junior
member of firm Of lawyers and the son
of well known attorney and wealthy
house owner, Bogroff, chose a moment
when attention had been withdrawn from
the stage and could be centered readily
on him.
The day had been one of festivities in
which the Emperor Nicholas and others Of
the imperial family had personally parti-
cipated In the afternoon the emperor, with
NJ. stolypin and other Of the cabinet, had
! witnessed the army maneuvers in the
viclnity Of Kopylow
Returning to the city, the party visited
the Petchora hippodrorne and witnessed
a review Of 1000 boy scouts from the Kieve
Grammar school. This was at $50 o'clock.
Meanwhile the populace had been enter
tained with the trotting races and other
public exhibitions.
The program was to close with a gala
performance of the opera and ballet "Tsar
Soltan," by Rimsky- -Korsakotf, the late
composer and professor of St. Petersburg
conservatory. Admission to the Municipal
theater was by card, and these permits had
been issued with great discrimination to
leading citizens of the city.
StOIypin in Front Row.
At o'clock the curtain rose. The i'm
perial box was occupied by Emperor
Nicholas, the heir apparent, Grand Duke
Alexis aged years, and the emperor's
daughter, the Grand Duchesses olga,
Tatiana, Marie and Anastasia- In the front
row of the pit directly at the rear of the
orchestra were seated Premier stolypin
and his associates in the ministry.
The opera progressed until the curtain
fell on the second act. During the inter-
mission Premier Stolypin, leaning his left
arm on the orchestra fence; had turned his
face to the right toward the center aisle,
conversing with the minister of war, Cen
era soukhomlineoff and Count Potocky. A
young man in evening dress moved quietly
down the center aisle, approached the row
occupied by the ministers and appeared TO
accost NJ. Stolypin. A second later he
swiftly drew a revolver from his coat and
emptied 1t seemingly point blank at NJ.
Stolypin. AS the reports Of the shots
crashed through the house there was
wild cry from the spectators, who rose to
their feet simultaneously, many Of the
women Immediately sinking into their
chairs fainting. The vast crowd seemed
panic stricken.
Orders Orchestra to Play.
Emperor Nicholas, at the sound of the
first explosion, sprang from his chair, and,
stepping to the front of the imperial box,
stared in the direction of the wounded
premier, With a quick realization of what
! had occurred. his majesty ordered the
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