M. STOLYPIN'S DEATH.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1634, 28 December 1912, Page 5

M. STOLYPIN'S DEATH.

POLICE LEADERS INDICTED. ' CHARGE OF NEGLIGENCE. llj Tcloir&Bh—Press Asiooiatlon—Copyrltthi , St. Petersburg, December 26. General Kurloff, and Colonels Verigin, Spiridovitch, and Kouliabko have been committed for trial on a charge of negligence, which was responsible for M. Stolypin's death.

THE OKHEANA INVESTIGATIONS. The mills of justice' in Eussia grind slowly. M. Stolypin was "assassinated on September 15 of 1911. The author of the outrage,. Bog Toff, was affiliated to revolutionary- societies, and it was rumoured that he .had . confessed .to having been deputed to .(milder M. Stolypin by a Terrorist organisation. ' Colonel Ifotiliabko" Chief of the Secret Police at Kieif,- was reputed to be the most efficient detective in Bussiaahd famous for having practically eradicated secret Societies lii the .South-Western Provinces. The pistol used to murder Al. Stolypin was. given to J3ogroif by the "Okhrana" (Russian Political, Police). It is said that M. Kurloff, the chief of the political pblico in Russia, disregarded M. Stolypin s express orders in entrusting police duties to a revolutionary informer. Senator Trussevitch, to whom was entrusted the "revision" of the 1 ICieiF Okhrana, after the assassination of 11. Stolypin, in his report, recommended the prbsecntion of. General. Kurloff (ex-Assistant Minister for- the .Interior), Coldriel Spiridovitch (Head 1 of tlio Police), M. Verigih (formerly Vice-Director. of the Department/ of Police), and Colonel Kouliabko (Chief of the Kieif Okhrana at the time of the Imperial visit last year). Senator Trussovitch's investigations revealed that BogrofF who shotM. Stolypin, joined the secret police while a member of. the revolutionary circle* and. sold the circle's seorets. The. report did hot specifically charge ( the 6ecret police'" leaders with complicity in the murder;, but thoir relations witlii Bogi'off -were. sinister;