Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1884 — Nihilists Assassinate a Russian Officer. [ARTICLE]

Nihilists Assassinate a Russian Officer.

A cable dispatch from St. Petersburg says: At Odessa Capt. Gerdzey, a prominent officer of the gendarmes, has been assassinated. His body was found with a bullet hole in the temple and a dagger sticking in his heart. A note pinned to the coat left no doubt that the murder was the work of N hilisjs. Capt. Gerdzey was a capable, courageous official, and specially devoted himself to grappling with Nihilism. He thus incurred the bitterest hatred of the members of that body. The murder has produced a sensation in Russia equal to that occasioned “by the assassination of Lieut. Col. Sudeikin.