Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-18
Sinks Into Lethargy.

The patient experienced a long period
of lethargy during the day.
The patient had appeared to improve
until late Saturday, when peritonitis set
in. During yesterday the premier showed
no Improvement. and q bulletin issued
last midnight said that he still exhibited
symptoms Of peritonitis.
The early examinations made Of the
wounds inflicted led the physicians to
hope for an early recovery. The develop
ment Of unfavorable symptoms followed
few hours after the patient had made
a most hopeful rally. This rally came
Immediately after the removal Of the
bullet by the surgeons in an effort to re-
Of which he had complained. and which
had thrown him into a state of depression
where death seemed welcome relief
Several times during Saturday night the
premier had broken out involuntar1ly
with q murmured exclamatiOn: Il feel
death stealing upon me!'
The operation was entirely success
full. The bullet was removed without
difficulty by the use of a local anes-
thettc, and hopes apparently were JUS
great sense Of relief and cheerfully
talked with his attendants, inquiring
Of current events and commenting
upon the appearance Of his assailant.
''The little fellow was awfully pitiful
as he came up to me in the theater."
bowed-a sorry figure"
Pulse Jumps Up.
But the favorable symptoms did not
last long. Soon the patients pulse
began to mount alarmingly and un-
mistakable symptoms of peritoniis set
normal. later sinking a trifle below the
normal.
The normal temperature was at first
ascribed to an almost total elimination of
outside infection, on account of the care
with which Prof Rein had made the in
itial dressings. Later some Of the ply
sicians were inclined to regard the drop
ping temperature as an unfavorable sign,
indicating that the patients system was
yielding to the septic poisoning without
the struggle which would be marked by
rise In temperature.
The doctors placed great hopes on the
powerful constitution of their patient,
who was in the pink of condition after
months sojourn in the country, but
at the same time they pointed out that
bullet wounds are always doubtful guam
titles, and that complications are always
likely. The patient was nervous from the
start, but the arrival and presence Of his
wife agitated him. and Saturday he was
tortured by frequent attacks Of hic-
coughing.
Bullet Made in Berlin
The bullet which the doctors extracted
was of huge caliber, and proved to have
been purchased in Berlin. The head was
deformed from striking the Vladimir
cross which adorned Stolypin's breast.
The cross detected the course Of the bull
let and deprived it of much of its pene-
trating power.
At 0 o'clock this morning the physi-
clans issued the following bulletin:
"Since last night the weakening of
the activity of the heart has taken a
threatening form. The peritoneal in
f1ammation shows no marked changes
Temperature. 9S.6; pulse, 132. The gen.
eral condition of the patient is serious"
One hundred and fifty arrests of law
yers and other acquaintance of Dmitry
Bogroff, the man who shot Stolypin, have
been made in kiey.
Bogroff Talks Freely.
Bogroff talked freely today of his life
and furnished the authorities with valua-
BILE clues. The original confident be-
havior of the prisoner has given place
to dependency, and he is now receiving
medical treatment.
Among the versions of the circum-
stances leading up to the crime, and
which must be investigated, Is the asssr-
ton that Bogroff belonged to a new
autonomous revolutionary group. the aim
of which is to aSSaSSinate individual
statesmen.
In the course of the questioning Bogroff
declared that he held NJ. Stolypin as one
Of the most pernicious men Of the state.
Another version is that the revolution
aries put Bogroff, who, according to the
DOlice had been filling the dual role of