| Show BOMB ENDS LIFE OF UNCLE OP THE CZAR ASSASSIN BY TERRORIST his death had been decreed by rev in december and sentence was executed at first opportunity grand duke sergius uncle ot ehg czar of russia and leader of the deac tlona ries met a terrible death in mos cow shortly before 3 clock friday afternoon the deed was committed by a single terrorist who threw beneath the car ariage of the grand duke a bomi charged with the same high explosive which wrought minister death the missile was packed with nails and fragments 0 iron and its explosion tore the am victims body to ghastly trag ments which strewed the snow toi yards around every window in th great lofty facade of the palace 0 justice was shattered and bits of iron were imbedded deeply in the walls ol 01 the arsenal yards away on the snow lay fragments of th body of grand duke sergius mingled with the wreck of the carriage th grand duke s head had been torn from his body and reduced to a shapeless pulp and the trunk and limbs were frightfully mangled A finger bearing a rich seal ring was found lying sev eral yards away the crimson tint and the smell of blood were everywhere only a few fragments of clothing in dilated that the body had been clothed the coachman lay moaning with pain beside a deep hole in the pavement the horses dragging the front wheels of the carriage had dashed off maddened with pain to sinh dying beffie they reached the gate the assassin was thrown to the ground and stunned by the force of tira explosion but he immediately rose and ran toward the gate attempting to escape his haste and the blood streaming aiom his face where be had been wounded by fragments of the bomb attracted the attention of a ser geant of police who seized him before he could draw a revolver the man did not deny his crime but on the contrary gloried in its success he expressed his satisfaction that la had been able to kill the grand duke without involving the duchess he avowed his membership in the social revolutionary organization but re fused to give his name and at the jail bis papers were found to be forged the assassin belongs to the noted fighting group of the socialist revolutionary lutio nary party which has removed other prominent officials and long since passed a sentence of death upon grand duke sergius the grand duke is understood to have been condemned to death by the revolutionary party in december last the governor generalship of moscow was abolished early in the year and the grand duke according to dis patches from moscow january 4 kept closely to the well guarded bisbon bohny palace on the outskirts of mos cow retaining his position as corn mander in chief of the military district later in janavry however it was announced that the grand duke had sought refuge in one of the pal aces of the breclin he has been classed as the most reactionary her of the imperial family at the head of what Is referred to as the war party and has been by the liberals as russia s evil genius grand duke sergius was born in 1857 and was married in 1884 to prin cess elizabeth of hesse darmstadt they have no children |
