MURDER OF A GOVERNOR.
St. Petersburg, Feb. 9
While M. Alexandrevski, Governor of Pensa, in Eastern Russia, was leaving a theatre in company with the Assistant Chief of Police, a youth armed with a revolver shot both of them dead.
The assassin then rushed into the theatre and fired a shot at the manager, who was trying to arrest him. The bullet missed the manager, but struck and killed a policeman. The murderer’s next move was to seek refuge in a cloak room, the door of which was promptly locked by an attendant. Finding himself thus trapped the assassin committed suicide.
The bullets used by the assassin were found to be poisoned, being coated with cyanide of potassium. The revolutionaries, it is stated, had condemned Alexandrovski who was formerly Commissioner of the Red Cross organisation, on the ground that by his mismanagement and corruption he had caused the death of innumerable wounded soldiers.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3750, 12 February 1907, Page 3
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153MURDER OF A GOVERNOR. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3750, 12 February 1907, Page 3
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