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Show SOLUTION ARf BoriDS - v WARSAW, March 27.-rA bomb, was thrown into the carriage of Baron von Koikes. Chief of Police of Warsaw, at I o'clock last evening. The attack was the suit of an elaborate conspiracy of ths revolutionary party. ; Shortly before I o'clock last night an elegantly ele-gantly dressed man went to the police station at Prago, 'a large suburb of War saw on the other side of the .Vistula, and threw a bomb into the courtyard of ths station, wounding seven persons, two of them dangerously. The man started to run awav but was caught byS the captain of the police. He was found to be a Jew. but his ldntily-has ldntily-has not yet been discovered. . I A telephone message was immediately sent to Baron. Aron Nolkhi st the city hall. Informing him of the outraged Baron Von'KAHlen, accompanied by a police official, of-ficial, took a carriage find started immediately immedi-ately for Praga.- - - When passing the castle where the Governor-General resides, a man standing cn the pavement- threw a bomb at the car- riage. Baron von Kolkn, who was sitting sit-ting on the side nearest the sssallant, re celved the full charge of tlie bomb, while his companion escaped unhurt. The coachman was thrown from the bo find the carriage was smashed. Baron von Noiken was removed to ths City hall and doctors were summonea, who found he had received injuries on the head, neck, arm and leg wnich are believed be-lieved to be serious. Meantime the police official accompanying accompany-ing Baron von Noiken saw the bomb-thrower bomb-thrower fleeing and pursued and oaugnt up with him, but the criminal proved the stronger and tor himself away. Another policeman fired twice after him witnout result. Half an hour later a man whom the police believe to be ths bomb-thrower was found dead in Bowla street. The police think the man shot himself to csoape arrest ar-rest A girl who wss passing the spot when the bomb was thrown was wounded by splinters snd was taken to the hospital. According to the theory of the police, the revolutionists calculated upon Baron Von Noiken gmng to Praga on teaming of the ekplosion of the bomb at the station sta-tion there and knew he must pass ths castle, that being the only road by which he could reach the only bridge across the Vistula. " The affair Caused great excitement. A. popular rumor says the revolutionaries .Adopted this course of informing ths police po-lice that they have more bombs besides those discovered In- the Powonskl in tery Saturday. Baron von Noiken Is very unpopular. He Is hated by the masses Of the Polish peo- j pie, who held him responsible for the San- 1 rulnary suppression of the disturbances here at the end of January. He hns been here only a year, having Come from St. Petersburg, where he was chief of the mounted division of ths police. According to later information, the bomb which exploded at the Praga police station was not thrown Into the court- f ard but into a room of the station where he men assembled before going on-duty. Six policemen were wounded and all the furniture, as Welt as one wall. Was destroyed.. de-stroyed.. The bomb-thrower, in trylngto escape, met a policeman and shot twice, wounding the officer In the stomach. The prisoner himself was wounded and has been placed In the hospital. The man found dead In Sowla street proves to be a plain clothes policeman who was seen pursuing Baron von Noi-ken's Noi-ken's assailant. The police believe that the latter turned on the policeman and shot him dead. Baron von Nolken's Injuries are serious, but it is thought he will recover. |