RUSSIAN CAPTAIN SHOT DEAD.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1687, 1 March 1913, Page 11

RUSSIAN CAPTAIN SHOT DEAD.

TROOPS HELD AT BAT BY THE ASSAILANT. An amazing affair which, took placs at the Horso Artillery Barracks in the Litoyny quarter of tho city of St. Peters-, burg on December 17 recalls tile mysterious i attempts of the acute; revolutionary period. An alarm of fire was given at tour o'clock from the storago barracks. Tho firemen woro able, by tho aid of respirators and masks,, to penetrato tho building, despite the noisome fumes, and extinguish tho flames before they reached tho explosives. General Oranovsky, in command at tho Barracks, ordered Captain ICologrivoff immediately to open an inquiry and establish the cause of the outbreak. The investigation proved that the 6toros depot had been previously broken into and a quantity of revolvers and ammunition abstracted. Ho ordered tho arrest of Bombardier Tchervanovslcy. who is in clmrgo of the storage, but wnen tho squad advanced Tchervanovsky shot Captain ICologrivolf dead.

I'anio spread among the squad, who scattered in all directions, and hid themselves. Subsequently a clerk named Zavadsky, employed in the receiving departinent, armed with a rifle, volunteered to attempt to arrest Tchervanovsky, but he ivas mortally wounded by tho 'murderer. The utmost confusion prevailed in the barracks. Tho firo brigade wero summoned telephonically, but Chief Ilyin refused to 6end his men to bo shot when soldiers were thero for duty. Tchervanovsky then fired repeatedly from a second storey window among tho disputing officers and firemen. Tho latter offered th'eir ladders and hose to the military, but they were not ncceptcd. After seventy shots had been fired at. the windows of the officers' club and among tho officers and senior men outxklo the Barracks, Tshervanovsky cried: "Goodbye! This is my last eart.ri'dge," and committed suicida. He was twenty-five years old and was serving.his final conscriptional year.