DISTURBED RUSSIA

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7743, 20 February 1905, Page 2

DISTURBED RUSSIA

A Dynamite Boab Again.

ASSASSINATION OP GRAND DUKE SERGIUS.

His Wife Freyioasly Warned. THE CZAR IN CGHSTEEMTIOI. A Manifesto to His Subjects. LONDON, Feb. {•. H is rumoured that u bomb outrage occurred at the Krcumn l'»l----acv, Moscow. Another re|>ort Malm that a bomb. wau thrown under the Grand Duke Sergius' carriage. | It is stuted that the Duke and the horses were killed. | In a luter message it is stated that the assassination of the Qrand j Duke Sergius has been confirmed. Two' of the murderer* have been arrested, St. DKTEHSHI'Ita, Feb. 17. The Grand DMVe Sergiug waa driving towardN the Kremlin, and when passing the Law Courts ho pawed a Acdge containing two occupants, one or whom ohrcw a bomb, Mowing the * carriage to piece*, Sergiui W«a • killed instantaneously.

THE GRAM) BUCHESS' GRIEF,

Capture of Ass*ssiis. THEY HAD DONE THEIH JOB, (Received Feb. It), 4.13 p.m.) | St. PETERSBURG. Feb. 18. Immediately after the outrages of the 22nd the Extremists sentenced * to death the Grand Duke Kergiuay General Trepoff, and others connected with the recent repressive measures hi Moscow and St. IVtosburg. | Sergiui*' wile was twice anonymously warned not to accompany her huw- ) band on his drives, as nobody wished her any harm. Yesterday thu Qrand | Duke took his first drive unaccompanied by her. Leaving the Nicholas l'alucu at three in the afternoon in a closed carriage ho was driven towuivla the Russian baths in Verskaja Street, closely followed by cabi containing detectives. Near the Law Courts a sledge oontaiuing two uien, one of whom was dressed as a workntuti. shot ahead of the Duke's carriage, and then, slowing down, allowed "tlte Duke's carriage to pass them. As it did - so one of the occupant* of the sledge rose and threw a bomb under the vehicle.

| There .immediately occurred u terrible explosion, breaking all the windows of the Ixiw Courts, and blowt tag the carriage to pieces, exrejit the : wheels. Strange to say, the horeea | were unhurt by the explosion, iml bolted, and, colliding with u wall, were killed, Sergius' head and liuios were torn from Ms body, wtikh wax Kai<i4y 'identifiable. I The murderers were immediately arrested, whereupon one ranarlud : "I don't care; 1 have done my Job." | The explosion attracted a crowd, some of whom engaged themselves in picking up fragments of Mie oarriageand of the Dukes torn clotteI 'the Grand Duchess, hat loss and cloaklvßß, rushed towards the scene, but was persuaded to retuin to tin palace, whither the remains-were conveyed. | A policeman, seeing a man armed, j with a iwo'iver running away after the explosion, arrested him. He nd« milled that hie also was an agent of the conspirators.