RUSSIAN BOMB OUTRAGE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 273, 24 December 1909, Page 2

RUSSIAN BOMB OUTRAGE.

A CHIEF DETECTIVE KILLED. By Cable.—Press Association.—Cop. ngtti St. Petersburg, December 2i. Vosskressensky, a youth, at St. Peteraberg, hired a flat and announced that his "uncle" and a manservant intended visiting him. When the two latter entered the flat a bomb exploded, killing the supposed uncle and wounding the servant. Vosskressensky, who was on the stairway, escaped, but was arrested in I lie street. Deceased proved to be Colonel Karpoff, Chief of Detectives, who lmd entered the flat. There are indications that Vosskiessensky was in Karpoff's employ ns a secret agent, but that he was plotting with the revolutionaries.

A PROFOUND SEiNSATION. LARGE NUMBER OF ARRESi'S HADE SECRET POLICE AS TERRORISTS. Received December 23, 11.10 p.m. St. Petersburg, December 23. An electric wire outside tlic, ronti connected the bomb beneath the wiping table whereat Karpoff was sitting. Both legs were hurled into a flat below through the cavity made by the explosion. Owing to the discovery of maps and guides relating to Finland among VosSkresnskv's papers, the populace believe that Karpoflf was engaged in the manufacture of false evidence.. Other papers enabled the police to make a large number of arrests. The Duma has accepted an interpellation accusing the secret police of purticipntmg in terrorists* acts, and askvi' the Government for the names of the secret police concerned in the Karpoff affair. ' The explosion caused a profound sensation in St. Petersburg, owing to the expected arrival of the Tsar for the Grand Duke Michael's funeral.