Salt Lake Tribune | 1907-07-20 | Page 11 | Twenty to be Tried

TWENTY TO BE TRIED Inquiry Into Plot Against Life of tho Ozar Concluded. ST. PETERSBURG, July 10. Tho preliminary inquiry in connection with the plot unearthed, last May at Tsars-koe-Selo against tho lives of the Emperor, Em-peror, Grand Duke Nicholas and Premier Pre-mier Stolypiu, was concluded today. Twenty of tho prisoners will bo tried by court-martial. Three of those suspected sus-pected of complicity in the plot have disappeared. Uy recent ruling of tho council of ministry, which, was signed by the Kmptsror, the military district court must begin trials within twenty- four hours after indictments are issued. is-sued. Tho existence of a plot against the Emperor of Russia, which had been sus-pocted sus-pocted for some time, was revealed May .15, by the arrest of a soldior at Tsarskoc-Selo, who confessed that he had accepted a bribe to assist in the murder of the Emperor. After the sol dier confessed a Cossack sergeant, who was stationed at ono of tho entrances to the palaces, became frightened, and voluntarily betrayed tv jdau according to which he was to let into tho palaco a number of conspirators dressed in tho uniform of the Cossacks. A singer in the Imperial choir and two Maximalists, Maxi-malists, wh.o were recognized by the police as participants in several robberies, rob-beries, also, wero taken into custody. It was believed at the time tho plot was a deep one, and that tho conspirators conspir-ators included members of the Empo-ror's Empo-ror's personal escort.