Show RUSSIAN RUSAN STUDENT SHUT SHOT SHUTDOWN DOWN IN A RESTAURANT Paid p id With His Life the Penalty dE Refusing to Honor the Name of the Emperor i St Petersburg J Jan 14 A tragedy in which a student paid with his life the penalty of refusing to do honor to the theold theold he old regime took place in the famous restaurant The Bear shortly after ater midnight The annual ceremony of watching the old year out was being observed with something like the old time festivities The great hell hall was crowded and the orchestra of Mile Mlle Rigo a sister of the paramour of the Princess Chimay upon the stroke of midnight burst forth with God Save the Emperor The guests with the exception of a student named Davidoff a 6 member of an aristocratic family rose to their feet and the officers present demanded an encore being determined to turn the celebration into a loyalist demon demonstration demonstration Student Shot Down Count a relative of the notorious Moscow reactionary applied an epithet to Davidoff for refusing to honor the national anthem and pulled his chair from under him Hot words followed and suddenly sud in inthe inthe Inthe the midst of the joyous acclamation of New Year Tear the guests were startled by five shots In rapid succession and the corpse of the student lay on the floor Indescribable confusion followed Count In addition to killing Davidoff wounded two women Three companions of Davidoff armed with champagne bottles attacked the murderer who with blood streaming down his face managed to fight his hi I way to the door Women s1 ami fainted The confusion culminated In a n won wonderful wonderful wonderful dramatic controversy across the body of the dead student The impassioned impassioned spectators of ot the tragedy hav hair having haVing ing ranged themselves according to their political opinions on either side Bide of it crimination and recrimination followed each other hotly A well wen known courtesan her head bead proudly in inthe Inthe Inthe the air stamped her foot toot as from the side of the loyalists she declared the student had met his due The Tho climax came when an aunt of Davidoff DavId ft who had fainted when the boy was shot having regained consciousness rushed forward and threw herself between the disputants and upon the body passion passionately passionately passionately kissing the cold bloodstained face ce A regular panic followed Witnesses Hastened Away The guests at The Bear many o of whom were the most prominent society leaders of St 81 Petersburg including a q number of diplomats hastened away in order to avoid avold being summoned as wit witnesses wl nesses Desses Meantime body was waa covered by the waiters in order to con conceal conceal conceal ceal the ghastly sight but it lay ay for more than two hours and until the police poUce arrived to draw UD a formal complaint A representative of the As Associated Associated Press who was present was waa informed that Is a retired officer of the regiment ol of the guards Davidoff when he was attacked at attempted attempted attempted tempted to draw a light rapier which students carry but hut he was dead before the blade left its scabbard |