REPORTED PLOT TO KILL THE CZAR.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2322, 28 May 1887, Page 2

REPORTED PLOT TO KILL THE CZAR.

St. Petersburg April 9. Some newsmongers here will have it that a fresh attempt was meditated against the Czar on Wednesday last, while His Majesty was in Town on a visit to the Horse Guards Regiment, on the occasion of the latter's fete. It is certainly a fact that several arrests of students and others were made in the street about the time of the passing of the Imperial party between (he Winter Palace, where the reception of the. Japanese Prince was held, and the riding school of the Horse Guards, but whether or not any of the arrested persons carried bombs or other murderous weapons it is not possible to ascertain. Eye-witnesses relate the arrest of a conple of suspected individuals, who appeared to be hiding within the recess of a doorway at tho corner of the Newsky and Morskaia, only ten minutes before the Emperor and Empress drove along from the Palace.

Besides this, a more remarkable incident took place just as the Imperial carriage entered the Grand Morskaia from the Winter Palace. A young man, rather shabbily drossod, stood in the road, holding a paper out at arm's-length towards the approaching carriage. Tho En)permsaw it, and at once ordered his coachman to pull up. There were no less than eight secret police agents, besides three or four policemen in uniform, on the hundred yards or so of pavement constituting this btiv\\\ section of the Grand Morskaia, and these men immediately sprang forward and seized upon the audacious obstructor of the Imperial progress, while General Grosser, the Perfect, who was following behind, as usual, leaped out of Jiis carriage, pale with alarm and nnxief.y. The Emperor ordered tho paper, which was, of course, a petition, to be given to him in the carriage, and tho petitioner was promptly inarched off to the nearest policestation. What was in the petition nobody knows. At that moment another police officer came up and informed the Prefect, who in his turn informed the Czar, of the capture of the two suspected individuals above related. It is further reported that on arriving at the Arinitchkiti Palace, before returning toGatsohina, the Czar found some threatening letters on his table. This detail however, is probably an imaginary, or at least an exaggerated, one. In any case, the appearance of Alexander 111., as he drove through the streets on Wednesday amid the disquieting incidents above mentioned, had not altered in the least from the revival of these signs of discontent and conspiracy.