The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-09-15
CONDITION OF RUSSIAN PREMIER
 IS MOST CRITICAL
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While Russian officialdom is tryinG to give the impression that the atl, tempt to assassinate the Premier wal the result of a private grudge on Be< srof's part. there is hardly a questio4 that the shooting was polftfcz1 It ik known, too, that in police circles 1t f1 srave!y feared that the affair means a resumption of the campaign of ter- rorism which was assumed, during the last three or four years, to be pret~ ty effectually stamped out
 Reports have been current for somaF time that the revolutfonists were pre- parfng for resumption Of activfty- Police raids on their Headquarters have been frequent in the last few months and. arrests and seizures of arms ana explosives have been made on much larger scale than the authorities havs publicly admitted.
 A great deal is made by RoyalisfD or the facts that the Czar, himse1fs, Who was present in the opera floupef was not attacked and that, foIlowinkn the shooting of the Premier the au6-. ence first tried to lynch Begrof xnH insisted afterward on singing the na-. tlonal anthem, as sign of it's devotiow to Nicholas.
 The truth is, however. that the CzaH was so carefully guarded in the im~ per1al box as to render it impossib14 for an assassin to reach him, while the audience, made up almost wholl6e- of the ariStOcracy and it's depepdanez-. could hardly have been expected td have any sympathy. with a revo1ution-l ary demonstration.
 In Kieff, the general belief is thaH other Terrorists were in the audienc3 on the lookout for the Czar and otaoR nigh officials sbut that Begrof detafk~ ed to shoot the Premier, was the oElH one who had the luck Or resolutiox to carry out his work
 The theatre was crowded to fhos doors at the time the attempt wo0; made, Begrof had seat near th9 Fremier's box. For some time N-s to see him. Finally he leaned fex- ward, however, turning towards tho stage. As he did so, the lawyer in~s stantly arose in his seat and fire& twice the first bullet piercing his yte-. tim's hand and the second strfkino him full in the back The Premier top-,, pied sideways from his chair into Mlu-' ister of Finance Kekevsoffs arms.
 At first it was thought that the Czae had been asSassinated but cries from the Premier's box, M. Stolypin has been shot," undeceived the audienee which immediately fcIi upon Besrof as he struggled to push his way through the crowds towards ar exit. . He was thrown and would unquestion- ably have been killed but for the promptness of the police in snatching him from his captors' eIutches anH hurrying him to prison
 From the, moment that the first shot was fired. the secret service mea who swarmed in the theatre, closed in around the Czar's box, keeping every one at a distance, so that 1t Is fm- possible to say how he took the shoot ing of his Premier It is said. how< ever, that he is even yet muck per- turbed.
 M. Stolypin is 51 years old and foe Russia, a somewhat liberal statesman but extremely drastic in his methods Of maintaining the Cxars authority. Two previous attempts have been made to assassinate him. Bs9rof f9 a converted Jew. The 'Czar and hj6 court were in Kieff to unveiI q statEej of the Czar Alexander III.