| Show T H ATTACK O OCI CI CZAR R NIOLAS IC CH LASI Still SHU Unsettled Whether the t be Shot Was the Result of Design DesignOr Or Accident ST Sf PETERSBURG PRESS IS MUM Grand Ceremonies Hut tit Accounts of or the Grand Ceremonies Is 19 Long and anil Well Rich In Detail Jan nt nh Petersburg Jan 20 0 O n nin nt in of the tho statement that tho Iho cannon shot hot yesterday Y witch which might w costly lly have havo wiped out the tho whole of ot tho the family II y was wan the tho result of carelessness In III leaving a t earl cart cartridge ridge in tho breech of ot a n gut gun utter the tho mysterious case tasa i Is still under the tho combined Investigation of ot the th military and the tho police und and tho mho public items M al little Inclined o os the tho au nu authorities to accept the limo ld vor VOl vordon slop don The Tho officers and men of ot tho the but bat buttery tell tery have havo not been tod but uro tiro confined to barN barru and by the tho mill regulations arc aro so closely clo IY under tinder Mry tary tar that It Is III s impossible for or the culprit or OT culprits to escape o until tho the l Is III determined It H cannot bo be sold said ild whether the affair was teas Ill an nn or tho the result of ot design jhn general belief bellet Is Ic that thata plot did not 1101 exist but hut ft a I of ot design are uro so apparent nt that the lie Attributing the tho presence of ot a I loaded shell to 10 previous target torget o evoked coked smiled In III many Iera lrI It U l Is III pointed pointel out as its being highly that the tho gun gum n mil had not no been heen craned for tor two tan days Ilaya and ond It Is le II Impossible sible Ihlo hat n cartridge could have hlo brn broil been for tor saluting saluting purposes he be hind Ihl first It Is III a n aIK IK coincidence that tho th a gun run I on t this thin cartridge should have havo been directly upon the tho Imperial chapel Whatever may Inay be bo tho the solution It In is isn Ina I In n a fact tact that tho the shot hot cane came front from the tho esplanade where wan eta sta the tho First borne horse artillery of ot tho the guard Luard the premier artillery organize of ot the tho most moat tea ll of ot tho the empire and ono one poled noted regiments In it tho the whole Russian Tho roster of ot thin lion tion of ot traditions hll In III Included eluded Grand a Dukes princes prices and some nomo of ot the most moat Illustrious naves name In Hu sm on nn of of o the tho regiment regiment IM and formerly Grand Grand Duke tho the chief artillery Inspector of ot the HI lIlun army whose duty dut it In hI to conduct tho the In III wins WI S Himself formerly colonel of ot tho the regiment The fhe two are proceed proceeding ing lug independently and both hoth uro 1110 guard gUIlI guarded ed cd with Ith the utmost Military experts say coy Indications point to a 1 charge consisting of at grape graro having beta been Inserted surreptitiously In a I saluting ing cartridge If It this woe was the tho case probably only ono one titan man waa involved certainly If It there waa w s an extensive plot or If It an alt officer was WIlS in inotA otA ol d It was badly b 1 executed It 11 IB is routed plated out that it Is hardly probable that nn an expert artillery ly man should hue have prepared n u weak scattering charge which could hardly carry across the tho Nova Nuva At tho seine samu time an un Indi ludl Indication cation lallon of ot design d Is the fact act that tho the pun gun was wan Va laid directly the ha Aerial pavilion hart Had tho the gun run l r It 8 charge or ft n n regular shell shall tho ho pavilion infallibly have havo been heon de do destroyed U It Is III clear that the tho saluting tray M Bono dono most recklessly aa lIS the Hashes dashes rf ct the blank shots from St lit Peter and andSt Ht St Paul III fortresses fortt shoed ed that the tho nuns guns were directed straight at It tho the win tr t r palace PIU SS MUM Ft SI Petersburg Jan 20 Nothing bet bettor tor illustrates te tho the conditions In it journalism than tho the appearance of ot tho the Kt IH Petersburg on the tho morning utter otter an nn occurrence which nearly added another r violent death to tho the history of ot the tho ruling family of ot Russia Hussla There art aru prominent headlines but hut almost no edi editorial lethal and the most brief mention possible 10 of ot the unexpected hall hallof of ot grape grapo shot around tho the little chapel In which the emperor and the Iho Roman Homan Romanoff off err fatally family had hI gathered for tor tho the great groat religious of ot the tho hany and blessing bleesing the tho watern of ot the tho Novo Neva Tho The account of ot the tho stately ceremonial prepared by tho the court marshal Is III long and rich In detail describing tho the u p and ond garb galb of the tho Individual l and nd tho the progress of ot events from rein minute to minute Appended to this court circular r are aro short paragraphs from various papers alluding IllS In it tho thin most guarded terms term to tho the unexpected danger In it which his majesty stood The These heso a add nM practically nothing to tho the knowledge of ot tho the event In tn spite of ot half halfa a I days opportunity for tor Investigation und and inquiry The Tho which publishes the most extended et account shows that whist interest In tho the Incident followed the tho second nd and third thin hots hotA tint hut otters offers no an 10 explanation The Tho paper e briefly on the tho Inexcusable carelessness s sot of ot permitting BO so perilous a II happening and on tho lie general Joy at tho the of his majesty and nud the tho relief to strain strained ed e nerves It concludes by expressing the Iho hope that the tho miraculous escape of the emperor trout from mortal danger danKer r bile engaged In ht the tho pious rites riles of tho ho I fault faith may be an un omen that Russia Is IA under like Ilk protection that Providence Is watching over those who live IIvo by faith and oM that she rhe may emerge In equal safely from the perils in which she die now made Other papers papera publish JesH leslI regarding the tho event even not even ovon tho the names of ot tho the solders commanding the lie battery or th the artillerymen men tending tho the guns aro are given 11 Veil Thu Tho reader 18 is left loCI largely to his own conclusions as ns Jo o tho the connection between tho the sound of at the 1 Mints and the tho patter of ot the th bulls balls about the pavilion Ja |
