The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-16
Shooting Of Stolypin
May Be First of Many
O%utrages.
HIS WOUNDS NOT
BELIEVE D FATAL
Attempt on Life of Russian
Premier Very Like the Assas-
sination of President McKin-
ley-Prisoner Is Sullen
and Refuses to Talk
of His Act.

kieH, september 1o.-Premier Stoly-
pin. who was shot down in the NUM-
cipal Theatre last night in the pres
ence OF Emperor Nicholas. the heir APP
parent and the grand duchesses. In
all probability will survive his wounds
Late o-night the surgeons. after u
consultation. announced that the pre-
mier's condition was satisfactory. They
declared that no complications were
feared. and that there were goud
hopes for his The following
bulletin was posted at the hospital
his evening:
During the day there was little
change in N. Stolypin's condition. His
temperature was 98.s. pulse R2 to 90.
and respiration % 10 %. Despite in
termittent Intestinal pains the patient
had several periods of peaceful sleep"
The local police believe that NJ.
Bogroh. the would-be assassin, is a
political maicontent and tina the rea-
son for the crime was his hatred IF
NJ. Stolypin. due to the premier's re-
dictionary policy. They tear the at
tempt to kill NJ. Stolypin is the first
OF a series of outrages planned for
.ne autumn and winter.
At his first examination to-day
Bogroff was sullen and refused to give
any information concerning the shoot
ing.
Emperor Nicholas visited NJ. s~tolypln
at the hospital this morning and later
in the day reviewed o 1000 troops on
the manoeuyre field at Kopylow.
Motive still Undetermined.
ST. Petersburg. septemb : l5.-De-
tails that have thus far come into st.
petersburg concerning the attempted
assassination in the Municipal The
atre at Kiev last night OF Premier
Stolypin throw 10 light on the ques-
tion whether the deed was the work
the act of ar individual hearing per
sonal malice for the premier.
Bogrof. the man who shot NJ. Stoly-
pin. is etwee twenty-six and TWEEN
ty-eisht years old. He was exceed
ingly we'll dressed.
Details of the attack resemble some
what those of the assassination OF
President Mckinley at Buffalo. During
the first intermission OF the opera
many members of the audience went
WI to shake hands with NJ. Stoly-
pin. Among them were persons un-
known to the premier. but whom.
nevertheless. he met.
During the second intermission the
same i~nformality was in progress, and
"hen Bogroh approached NJ. Stolypin
the latter interrupted a conversation
with Minister OF War Sukhomlinnof
n faced the newcomer. The next
moment pistol shots broke the com
paratiVe silence OF the audience. Bog
rom. after firing p%ointblank at the
rushed out into the aisle.
still ctlutching the weapon. He had
reached a side exit in his effort TO es-
cape, when an officer intercepted him.
next moment the would-be assas-
SIN was felled and trodden underfoot
by angry spectators OF his crime. TIL.
oilcer unsheathed his sabre and en-.
to drive back the people. but
Defore he was able to accomplish this
6osron had been trampled into in
sensibility.
Church services are being neld
throughout Russia and prayers are be-
Ing offered for the restoration to
health of Gods servant Peter"
Ihere have been sensational de-
veiopments in the inquiry at Kiev into
the shooting of NJ. Stolypin. The in
curry has declared the crime to have
oeen OF revolutionary origin and car
ried out by an agent of the protec-
tive political police. especially station
ed in the theatre to guard M. stoly.
pin. 800
IT is declared that this first attempt
at a revival of terrorism was planned
10y the executive committee OF tn.
jewish band of. social revolutionists.
Dimitr Bogroff is an orthodox Jew.
He graduated from Kiev University
In 1906. During his course there he
Joined the social revolutionary group,
when intrusted to him in 1907 several
serious commissions.
AT the inquiry to-day BoEroff de-
ciared that he intended to attempt TO
take the life of a higher ~personaga
man NJ. Stolypin, but feared this would
precipitate an anti-Jewish outbreak.
Bogroffs brother. vladimir. was ar
rested here to-day.