The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-22
Indications of COmplicity of Many Prominent Gov
 ernment Officials
POLICE OFFICIAL
 UNDER SUSPICION
Protection of Emperor and Empress Caused Departmental Discord. The Minister of Justice
 at Work.

| St. Petersburg, September 21.-Induiry into the assassination of Premier Stolyptn at Kievs with particular reference to the revolutionary and police elements invoiv- | ed. is being conducted personally by Min | ister of Justice Chtchegiovitoff
 | Already there are indications of many
 ramifications and complicity on the part
 of prominent government officials. Great
 CT sensations than so far published are
 promised.
 | Vice Director of Police Verigin is under strong suspicion by the authorities who l hold he is in a measure responsible for | the outrage.
 | The protection of the Emperor and the | Empress and the cabinet officers at Kiev 1 formed the subject of departmental dis- cord Governor General Trepoff demand
 ed general oversight of the protective | measures but was overridden by the di- | rectors of the Department of Police, M. | Kurloff.
 Trepoff then rendered his resignation which was not accepted. Kurloff, VeTigeh Lieutenant Colonel Sprdovitch of the street service police and Col. kuilako' chief of. the secret police, organized the protection which cost s1o0,0oo
 While Verigen and Kurloff were in Kiev on the eve of the Emperors visit l Demitry Bogroff was consulted and | given the responsible position or 1 guarding the premier as he promised i to track suppositious terrorists, Nina Alexandroyna and Nicholas Jacovlivich. | It is incomprehensible to those en- | IaN or a | dared to disregard Stolypins circular
 regarding revolutionary spies and al- I low Brogroff, a spy and informer to
 guard the premier without even set | ting other agents to watch him.
 Verlgen was Kurloff's right hand man
 and maintained close relations with
 Kurlors family. Kurloff. agains'
 Stolypins opposition. married the di-
 vorced wife of young adjutant. Stoly- pin made the matter one of personal l confidence to the Emperor. but kur- lloff's influential supporters at the court l oyerruled the premier
 The Novoe yremya says that only a
 mere fraction of the findings can evel
 be published. Patriotic reasons forbid the full exposure of the scandalous
 criminal intrigues in the high govern
 ment circles leading to Stolypin's as-
 sassination.
 l Only General Trepoffs measures In | throwing a cordon about the theatre and checking the work of the secret ! police, says the Vremya, prevented the escape of Bogroff from the hands or justice. Colonel Kuliabako made strenu- | ous but unsuccessful efforts to have l the prisoner kept at the secret police headuuarters instead of In the fortress. l Had Trepoff surrendered Bogroff to 1 Kuliabako, the paper declares, few de- tails of the crime would ever have be- | come known.
 l Many alleged accomplices have been traced to the revolutionary side and vast number of arrests are being made throughout Russia. The police have been searching in vain in St. Petersburg ] for a terrorist bearing the nickname or | Hermann" A domiciliary search has been made of the rooms of the cor l respondent of a London newspaper and his brother. residing in the lodgings of
 the liberal authoress, Mms. Tyrkiva. | It was reported that Bogroff's father
 was arrested on the frontier while return ing to Russia, but later report said he was in Berlin Bogroff's parents upon | receiving word of the crime. addressed a | telegram to Mime. Stolypin expressing ab- horrence of their sons act. Bogrof s brother, who was held at the St. Peters | burg secret police headquarters, has been | transferred to the fortress. Bogroh' uncle, a physician. has been arrested at l odessa. Another Bogroff, also physi- l elan, has been arrested at Balsu.
 1 Eighty men and 30 women. professed | libers. are under arrest at Kiev. | Twelve thousand Jews have left kiev l since tho assassination. Acting Premier l Kokovrskoff. through representative to- | day informed deputaton of the Jewish arlstocracy at Kiev that the Jews them | selves created alarm through their cow a,dice, but that fitting measures against disorders had been taken.
 Tsaritsyn, Russia, September H-EIeli- odorus. the reactionary priest, declined to offieiate at requiem mass for M. Stoly- l rin saying:
 .Stolypin was none of our family or l circle He did us no good and has his own hired inourners and considers"