Show PREFECT SHOT DOWN IN MOSCOW count Shu 9 the V ct m of ansas assas ans bullet be shot five times and almost in scantly killed THE MURDERER UNDER ARREST murdered ivan owed his death to custom of freely grant ng audi lences and receive ng petit ons from all classes moscow major general count Shu prefect of police here and formerly attached to the ministry ol 01 the interior was assassinated tues day morning while receiving petitions one of the petitioners drew a revolver and fired five times at the prefect who fell dead the assassin was ar rested the assassin who was dressed peasant has not been identified he was recently arrested as a political suspect but escaped from the police station before his examination teh assassin waited in the anteroom of the prefecture until the other petitioners had been received and then entering the auditorium he advanced toward count Shu firing five shots at close range the bullets passed through the body of the prefect A great crowd gathered in front ot the houe of count Shu and made a to show its in dig nation and sorrow at the assassin nation of the prefect who was very popular grand duchess elizabeth widow 0 the grand duke sergius as in feb 17 last attended the first requiem for count Shu avloff at night count Shu owes his death to his custom of freely granting audi ances and receiving petitions aiom all lasses one bullet wounded the count in the pericardium another pierced his ab domen a third struck him in the arm and the fourth in the shoulder while the fifth bullet of the assassin struck the leg of an official who was stand ing near to the physicians the bullets were poisoned the vie tian speedily lost consciousness and never shohe afterward |