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Show I i PLUNGED KNIFE I I iNin in:; BACK H Commander of Port of St. H Petersburg Slain at the Admiralty Works. Refuced Workmen a Holiday and la Stabbed to Death, His Murderer Escaping In the Crowd, and Will Probably Never be Discovered. Bt. Petersburg. Vice Admiral Kuz-mlcb, Kuz-mlcb, commander of the port, who was very unpopular with tho work-men, work-men, wns nssnHHlnatcd hero Monday by workmen whose Mny day ik'inon-strntlon ik'inon-strntlon he hnd attempted to stop. Tho ndmlrul wns killed nt the now admiralty works, n government Instl-tntlon Instl-tntlon where most of the 2,000 men employed there reported for tho duty nt 6 o'clock. They wanted Immcdlntc-MMt Immcdlntc-MMt lr to march out In a body and cclc- Ibrnto tho Russian May dny, but final-Jy final-Jy agreed to work until 2 o'clock In tho afternoon. The ndmlrnl, however, made a speech to tho men saying that ho could notngreo to their leaving work nt 2 o'clock, nnd the mnttor wns left open. At nbout DIM n. m., nccordlng to nn I Dlllcor who wns lit tho gate of tho Works,' tho ndmlrnl wns emerging Trom n small shop in tho works when a workmnn who lind been conccnlod around the corner of tho building leaped on Kuzmli'h from behind nnd i drovo n long (lugger Into his bnck. i Tho ndmlrnl fell 'forward on his face, which wns lindly cut by stones, nnd i died Immediately. Tho nssnssln lied I Into n lnrgo forgo whero he wns lost among tho men employed there. Tho works wore promptly surrounded by I troops nnd' police, but tho senrch for tho murderer wnB unavailing, his com-i com-i rndes professing Ignorance of his Idou- tlty. |