The Russian Nihilists

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 20, 19 February 1884, Page 3

The Russian Nihilists

FEARFUL OUTEAGES. The London correspondent of the Auckland Star writes : — M. Tolstoi, Minister of the Interior, received a latter on January 8, stating 1 That he ha.. he<ui se-itenced by the Nihilists. The letter also intiu?ated the speedy murder of the Chief Public Prosecutor, M I >ofreskansky. 'i he latest version of the accident to the < zar on December \7, while returning; tro*n a sho.itiu^r excursion to Balchina Pahice in Austria, is to the effect that he was accompanied by his suite in eight >leHj»-Ps wirh a number of servants \ lthou^h dark - ness was coming' on, the pi»rty noticed ahead six men, approntly peasants. The Czar's aides drove 'orwurd and ordered the men to clear t he way. The men saluted the officers and •ippeared lo ohny orders, but when th ( 'z ir's sledge CMine on a lev. 1 witl. them they suddenly wh«r>le>l round and fired at him thrice, and two ot them ran towarcs 'lip sl'dg-e. The hi rses atr 'ched became frighrenpd, and {Tallowed Mine hundred p;icea. when the i zar was thrown out of the .-ledge. A bullet lodged in the '• zar's shoulder, but it was uot a danger it wounti. The Czar'.-, followers immudiately mounted sle<^e horses and followed the assassins, who escaped to a neighbouring wmd Owing to ihe depth of snow, pursuit was fruitless. One of the pursuing offi'-ei'S ventured too far and did not return. 'Ibe " Telegraph" 1 thinks the attack was an att-mpt to execute the sentence of death recently passed upon the Czar by the Nihilists.