STABBED BY A WOMAN.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2202, 15 July 1914, Page 7

STABBED BY A WOMAN.

AN AVENGER.

A RUSSIAN MONK'S FATE. GIRLS HYPNOTISED. SCENES WITH VILLAGE MAIDS. By TeleffrapU—Press Association—Copyright * St.- Petersburg, July 13. A woman shadowed a monk named Rasputin for a fortnight and then fatally stabbed him at the village of I'okrov- • sky, Tobolsk. Siberia, Rasputin, an illiterate Siberian peasant, gained creat inlluencc with tile Tsar as 4 miracle worker, and roso to power jr.. Court circles. He became the agent for. various political cliques, and exer-' cised influence in the famous ritual murder case in. which Beiliss, a Jewish clerk, was charged with (and acquitted ' of) the murder at Keiff of a Christian boy named Yuchchinsky. The monk,' Illodor, who was some'' ■ > time ago sent to prison for heading a —' movement for'reform of the Orthodox Church, and who succeeded in attracting many followers, • was on ono occasion imprisoned for thrashing, and-de* nouncing Raspulin as a false prophet. . ' •RASPUTIN'S, DOUBLE LIFE, .; , (llec. July 14, 10 p.m.) St. Petersburg, July iiv Rasputin's wound is not considered ; mortal. He was walking in i native village with his son Dmitry, and notic- - iug a' woman, Rasputin felt in his pocket for arm's (alms?), when Gusevai a peasant woman stabbed him in'tha abdomen, with a dagger. , .Gusevii .tried . again to stab'Dmitry, hut'was prevented, and he handed her to the police. '. Guseva' stated that she wished to | avenge one of Rasputin's girl victims, now in the convent. ' Guseva subsequently attempted suicide. ' Rasputin's hypnotic gifts enabled him to play upon the feelings of. hysterical woinen. Several of unblemished reputation fell under his spell. While movi'nj; , in the highest sopiety,. Rasputin, parties 'pated in Bocca'ccian scenes'witli T villflgo ' girls, who worn always provided with an alleged religious raison d'etre.