Salt Lake Times | 1890-11-20 | Page 1 | It was Revenge

IT WAS "REVEXGE. MURDER OF THE RUSSIAN ACENT NOT THE WORK OF NIHILISTS. The AuoHln'l Sweetheart Had Been Enticed En-ticed to a Home of Ill-Fame hr the Uenrral'i Mlatreaa lie Had Often lieen Threatened. , Paris, Nov. 20. At the request of the Russian embassy no autopsy will be held on tho body of General Seliver-skofT. Seliver-skofT. Tho government is acting energetically ener-getically against nihilists in Paris. Le Matin says the police believe the killing an act of private vengeance. Pod-lerky, Pod-lerky, the man arrested, was the lover of a girl who had been enticed by a woman at. the instance of SeliverskolT into' a house of ill-fame. This, it is claimed, was the motive for tho crime. A liason existed between the woman who induced tho girl to visit her house and Seliverskoff . The nihilists here affirm that the general gen-eral director of Russian police in Franco played au important part in the recent arrests of nihilists in Paris, The newspapers news-papers recall the fact that a servant of Scliverskotf, named Mullcr. was assassinated as-sassinated in Paris in Paris in 1WW and that tho murderer was never found. Since then the general received a number num-ber of letters threatening him with death. Eclair says the nihil'st committee decided de-cided that if Sophia Gunzberg, arrested arrest-ed at St. Petersburg for having bombs, was sentenced to death, Seliverskoli would be killed. Tho woman was sentenced to be hanged on Monday. Tho shooting of the general occurred tho day after.