The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-10-09
BOMB KILLS 13
RED LEADERS IN
MOSCOW REVOLT 7
Death Dealing Instrument Hurl-
ed Into Meeting in Kremlin
PETERS ONE OF VICTIMS
Was Sinister Figure of the Red Terror
and Signed Death Warrants With
out Looking at Them

Washington, Oct. S.-Thirteen Boil
shevist Commissaires were killed by
a bomb thrown during a meeting in
the Kremlin OF the Moscow Soviet on
Sept 25 according to information re-
ceived at the State Department today.
This in formation explains i'll a
measure the dispatch from Helsing-
fors reporting the throwing of bomb
in Moscow which killed ten persons
and seriously wounded 27 others dur
ing the funeral of the victims of the
recent bomb outrage in the Kremlin" 4"
This news from Helsingfors was the
first intimation that there had been an
attack on the authorities in the Boil
shevist capital and no further explain
atibns were given.
Today's advices to the State De-
partment say that as result of this
attack the Bolshevist authorities ap-
pointed an extraordinary commission
to handle the situation and put the
city under martial law.
dispatch from London quoting a
message from Reyal seemingly indi-
Gates that among the Commissaires
killed at the Kremlin meeting was
Jacob Peters. Chief Executioner of
the Russian Revolution. This, the
most sinister figure of the Red Ter
ror. whose power of life and death
was absolute, was depicted in the
early days OF the Bolshevist ascend.
ancy as signing death warrants all
day long without looking at them
and mocking relatives of the victims
who sought news OF their missing low
ed ones Comrade Jake" Peters,
who was 33 years old, had lived for
many years in London. where in 1910
he was arrested in connection with
the killing of four policemen in
fight with bandits trying to rob a jew
elry firm in Hounsditch, but was
released on an alibi At that time
he was employed as sorter in a rag
shop at $3.50 a week.
The orgy Of slaughter in which. as
Chief Executioner he INDUCED with
Inovieff, President of the Petrograd
Soviet, and Shatoff, formerly a New
York anarchist, who had become head
of the Extraordinary Commission
Against the Characterization, ap-
paled Lenin. who tried vainly to
checK II, ana whose power in internal
affairs waned in consequence.
Whether or not the new commits
sion in Moscow has inaugurated ano-
ther era of massacre is not disclosed
in official information received here,
but the probability is that the Reds
are resorting to their usual sanguin-
airy methods in their attempt to cope
with the growing antagonism of the
people to the Soviet and the increas-
ing boldness of the anti-Red element
as the armies of Denikin, Kolschak,
and Poland draw ever nearer to Mos
cow For the reports to the State
tell of the execution of
200 persons as result of the action
of the Bolshevist extraordinary com
mission at Moscow investigating the
of the town of Grasnia
Gorka by Bolshevist troops.
1t is known that unusual efforts |
have been made to bring about some
measure of satisfaction among the
peasants and communal farming and
other features of a new system OF dis
tribution of the lands in the Bolshevik
territory were determined upon by
the Bolsheviki to allay the spirit of
revolution. I