UNKNOWN. The Plot.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 212, 23 July 1887, Page 5

UNKNOWN. The Plot.

The St. Petersburg correspondent of the " Daily News " writes concerning the great political trial which will commence on the 27th in the St. Petersburg law courts :— The trial will take place with closed doors, and not even the relations of the accused will be admitted into court. The following are the names of the accused :—: — Vasili Osipanoff, from Tomsk, 26 years of age ; Pakhomius Andrejuskin, son of a Kuban Cossack, 21 years ; Vasili Generaloff, son of a Kuban Cossack, 20 years ; Mikhael Kantcher, son of a Court Chancellor, 21 years ; Peter Karghoun, a Poltava nobleman, 20 years ; Peter Sheviroff, son of a merchant, 23 years ; Alexander Oulianoff, son of a Privy Councillor, 20 years ; Joseph Loukashevitz, Polish nobleman, 23 years; Bronialav Pilsoutski, Polishman nobleman, 20 years ; Titus Pashkoffski, chemist, of Polish extraction, 27 years ; Stephan Volokhoff, 21 years ; Michael Novorousski, Master of Arts of the St. Petersburg Theological Academy ; Anna Serdicova, schoolmistress, 27 years ; Maria Ananjina, physician, 22 years. The nine persons first mentioned are students of the St. Petersburg University. Three of them were carrying bombs. These bombs* on examination, were found to be charged with dynamite and with small hollow leaden cubes filled with strychnine. The bombs were made to look like books. Two cylinders were placed in each. The largest oi the three bombs contained 51b of dynamite and 251 small leaden cubes. The second contained 71b and 207 cubes. The third contained 31b and 36 cubes. The explosive power of the bombs was very great. The explosion would have bloAvn doAvn everything within a distance of six yards, and the cubes would have been driven for a distance of thirty yards in every direction. The slightest injury by one of these cubes would have caused immediate death. Most of the accused are said to have confessed their guilt. It was their intention to kill the Emperor on his way from the Palace, according to a plan which seems to have been concocted at Wilna and in St. Petersburg. The young men selected to carry out that design were to be armed with bombs. They had to walk on the Neffskir Prospect, three on each side, at rather longdistances apatfc. On one side two had bombs, and one went in front as a spy. On the other side ono had a bomb, and the two others acted as spies. One of these spies had to give a signal with his pockethandkerchief as the Imperial equippagewas approaching. Then the three bomb bearerß were to throw their infernal machines either into the sledge or under the carriage as might be most convenient..