GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 January 1917, Page 4

GENERAL CABLES.

details of easputlvs murder Australian-XZ. Cable Association. Received Jan. 7, 5.5 p.m. London, Jan. C. The Daily Chronicle's Petrograd correspondent .states that, despite the ecncorship, it has been revealed that Rasputin was conveyed to l'rince Youssoupoll s liouse, where he was condemned to death, and given a revolver with which to shoot himself. He fired at the man who gave him the but missed, and killed a wolf hound. Ilia accusers then disarmed and shot the monk.

It is reported that some of the minor hgures in the ease have been arrested. A member of the IJuma, who is concerned in the affair, has already left Petrograd, and is reported to have ' reached the front. General Kurloff, confidential advisor to Protopopoff, la ' conducting the investigation. fGrigory Rasputin ("Gregory, the Rake' l lirst appeared at Petrograd in 1011, when he was about- 3o years of age. lj |> to that time -lie had been on© 1 of the ''religious guides," found in large numbers in almost every Russian village. Some of these men are simple hermits, who are permitted by the Church to expound elementary doctrine to tl;c villagers; others, of whom Rasputin was one, nre mere i'harlatajyi. Rasputin, who came of humble peasant stock, made his way, thanks to a charm of maimer which lias fieen described «* hypnotic. Certainly he sprang almost instantaneously into favor in aristocratic circles in Petrograd, and hit intrigucH against certain high dignitaries in the Church drew upon him many attacks in the Duma and tli'e 'Press. But Rasputin's influence invariably prevailed; and, while his friends were promoted in various capacities, his enemies —among them so important a .personage as the Archbishop Antony'of Vol iiynia—were either disgraced or superseded. In July, 1014, a woman, who .-aid she wished to avenge one of the "monk's" girl victims, stabbed him when '■ he was visiting his native village of Pokrovski, in Tobolsk, but the wound did not prove fatal.] * MURDERER ATTEMPTS SUICIDE. Received Jan. 7, 5.S p.m. Amsterdam, Jan. ff. Adler, the murderer of Stuergkh, hanged himself in his cell, bill was cut down before life was extinct.