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Show LIFE IMPRISONMENT FOR THE ASSASSIN ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 14. Sansonsff, who threw the bomb which killed Minister Minis-ter of the Interior Von Plehve, and Sik-orlfsky, Sik-orlfsky, his accomplice In the crime, were Tuesday found guilty by the Court of Appeals, Ap-peals, sitting In the law courts building. The former was sentenced to Imprisonment Imprison-ment for life, with hard labor, and the latter to twenty years' Imprisonment. Sasoneffs apologia is declared to be a remarkable document, showing the prisoner pris-oner to be a man of superior Intellect and learning. It fills several ciosely written pages, was drawn up while he lay in the hospital, and sets forth th. aims and purposes of th. social revolutionary party, and the fighting organization, the reasons and motives for the murder ot Minister Von Plehve, and also his version ver-sion of the crime Itself. fiikorlfsky, being only a common work-r.an, work-r.an, la not such an Interesting personality. person-ality. Toward night, when the shops and factories fac-tories wore closed, the size of the crowds Increased and thero were occasional shouts of "acquit them," but there was no attempt at an actual demonstration. Cnly a few arrests were made.. |