Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1881 — A Regicide’s Capture. [ARTICLE]

A Regicide’s Capture.

A very interesting account is given by an army sergeou assistant, who states that he was one of the first to seize Russakotf, and accompanied him to the Prefecture. The writer, Wasill GorokhofT. narrated that he was proceeding along the Katerinofisky Canal toward the Nevskv Porspect, when he overtook a man or middle height and long light hair, dressed In a thin overcoat and a tall fur oap. The man was carrying a small white parcel. The Emperor,* carriage appeared on the canal road, and having saluted the Emperor, who.. GorokhofT says, returned She salutations, he heard a violent explosion, which impelled him forward, and looking around he saw a Cossack fall from his horse, and another staggering. The man whom he had previously observed, then ran toward the Nevsky Prospect without any paroel in his band, and he seized him, a policeman and two soldiers immediately laying hold of the man. The Emperor approached them, asked if he was the criminal, ordered him to be searohed, and turned, prooeedlng toward his carriage. Gorokhofi appears to have a aim recolleotion of having seen a man of short stature go Suiokly toward the Emperor, and sen something was thrown either by this man, or from between the railings of the oanal, which fell at the Emperor's feet with a deafening explosion. The Emperor, and all standing around, including the man he had notioed, fell to the ground as if mowed down. GorokhofT saw the Emperor lying on his right side, and an offioer with white epaulets—this was the Police Colonel Dvoijilsky—drag himself toward his Majesty, who slightly raised his head, which then sank again on the snow. While the young man who had been seized running away was being held, after this second explosion, a soldier came up and struck him on the head, saying: “You miscreant, what dave you done?” RussakoflTreplied: “For God,s sake don’t strike me. You will know afterward. You are Ignorant people.” He was then placed in a sledge and taken to the Prefecture, where he was undressed and examined. He was respectably clad, and had a purse containing three rouble notes, a pass port and other papers. When interrogated in another room. Russakoff first gave a fictitious name, but soon acknowledged bis real name. Among other things he stated that he had met his friends the week previously, who had explained to him that on Saturday following he would have to shoot at the Emperor. Russakoff also affirmed that he knar# ottiera would be appointed to oarry out the same deed, but did not Migrate {L3; but, being too early, walked kefoss the bridge to the small market plaoe adjacent. There Ruaaakoft says he xnat a young woman, seventeen yeaiv of age, good looking and wefi dressed, who knew him, and whom be knew by eight, not by name. She handed him a paroel, telling him he waa to throw it and it would explode violently. After remaining a short time In the market place he returned to the Canal Road, what followed la only too well known.— Jxmdon Newt. TT The new caar leads e very simple life. He rises early and takes walk, then breakfhst* with his tamily” After dtfaner he spends a long time In amusing himself with his children.