A Second Account.

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

A Second Account.

The Coach Driver Also Killed A INVOLUTION AKY DECHEE. (lleceived Fob. 10, 4.37 |i.m.) *'. Si. I'KTKHUmJIW, Feb. IH. Another account of Grand Duke .Sergius 1 urarder states that a man .dressed in workman's holiday clothes ] stood concealed clone to the Nikolbky gftte near the ursenul. As the carriage emerged from the tunnel formed by I the tower of the Xikolsky gaiie, the man threw a bomb, blowing Serous' head to atoim*. and reducing nib body to a formless mass. A policeman and n watchman were he only actual eye-witnesses, and mm rested the murdcivr, who was bleeding about the head and hands, and scarcely tried to escaiie. lie shouted ••Freedom !" all the way to the station, and refused to reveal his identity. Ho is supposed to be a student pledged to revenge the Moscow massacre of December ltttb.

There are indicnlions that groups [of the working classes at Moscow i»ere aware <*f the dute and hour the attempt was to be made.

The Czar has issued a manifesto deploring "Uie loss of my uncle and friend, whose whole life and activity and care were constantly devoted to tin services of ourselves and the Fatherland.'' The manifesto continues by saying that he hopes hSs subjects will feel the hearties* sympathy with the luijicrlul House. *U the victim's head only tho brains were found, which, with tho trunk uud linrtis, were collected and taken to the Nicholas Palace. 'llio driver also died on the way to tho hospital.

| One of \ite assassins is injured, and another confessed, to executing a revolutionary decree A number of students who were 'scattering revolutionary proclamations outside the Kremlin were roughly handled hy the crowd. Hon CZIU U '* a stateo ' eoiwlorna,-

GRATIFICATION AT THE DUCHESS' ESCAPE.

(iteceived Fell 19, 4.31 ».,„ | The Revolutionary party m > r/rutithe Huche* o^ Iwd "X The l-emnlns of the Grand Ihikn si. and st ' ~« »l •*