DOOMED NIHILISTS. Trial of the Would-be Regicides.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 206, 4 June 1887, Page 4

DOOMED NIHILISTS. Trial of the Would-be Regicides.

The trial of nine men and three women, mostly young students, charged with complicity in the recent attempt to kill the Czar, commenced before the Political law Senators. Even relatives of the accused were excluded. It is said that the Czar would have been killed on the 10th inst. if he had taken his usual carriage drive. The plot leaked out through information given by the lady of the house where some of the students boarded. The women put on trial were allowed to consult lawyers. One of the persons just convicted of plotting against the Czar U a student named Oualianotf, son of a high Russian official. During the trial he displayed the highest intelligence and maintained a most dignified bearing. He declared that neither lie nor his companions feared death. He could imagine nothing more sublime than to die in an endeavour to deliver the unfortunate Russian people. Hundreds of young men would imitate them until the Czar would bo compelled to change his despotic system. The prisoners, with one exception, are intelligent, gentlemanly and of good families. One said he intended to murder the Czar with a revolver, but afterward thought that bombs would be better.