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Show NEWS OF THE WORLD. <br><br> NEW YORK, July 21.-The Herald's Paris special says: Our St. Petersburg correspondent telegraphs to-night fresh particulars concerning the recent plot laid to assassinate the Czar. M. Baronoff, the chief of police, had received an anonymous letter, stating that on the 12th of July, the Emperor of Russia was to be assassinated. The letter contained nothing more. Baronoff made inquiries in every direction, and ascertained that a young student had committed suicide under extraordinary circumstances. The man had first run himself through with his sword without having injured a vital part and then lodged a bullet with his revolver in his left temple, and then finding himself still alive fired again in the temple and the gaping wound made by the sword. This determined suicide awakened M. Baronoff's suspicions. He found the man apparently dead, but in fact still breathing and in a swoon. M. Baronoff, by aid of the doctors, caused the student to come to his senses and to speak. The student declared that he had formed part of a secret society of twenty Nihilists who had all sworn to kill the Emperor. They had drawn lots, and it had fallen to his lot to carry out the plan of assassination on the 12th of July. Nineteen daggers were suspended over his head and his brother Nihilists swore to kill him if he showed the slightest hesitation, but notwithstanding this threat his heart failed him and he resolved to die by his own hand. Before committing suicide he had written to M. Baronoff with the conviction that one of his fellow conspirators would immediately take his place. The student lived till the 18th of July. Before breathing his last he revealed the names of his brother Nihilists, who have been all secured by the police. |