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Show 00 MS ARE lira ib PETROGRAD, Sunday, Jan. 21. A. I. Shingaroff, minister of finance in the Kerensky cabinet, and Professor F. F. Kokoskine, state comptroller under Kerensky, were murdered in their beds last night in the Marine hospital. M. Shingaroff and Professor Koko- shine were removed recently to the hospital from tho fortress of St. Peter and St. Paul because of illness. A dozen armed men entered the hospital and demanded that thoy be shown tho beds of tho former ministers. Professor Kokoshine was killed as he slept, two bullets being fired. M. Shingaroff wakened and protested. Six bullets weio fired into his body. The assassins then left the hospital. nn |