The Accident to the Czar.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 163, 13 February 1884, Page 2

The Accident to the Czar.

The latest version of 'the accident to the Czar on December 17, while returning from a ! shbdfirig ; 'excursion to Balyina Palace, m Austria, is to the , ■ effect that lie was accompanied by his suite m eight sledges, with a number, of servants. Although darkness was coming on, the party noticed ahead six men, apparently peasants. The Czar's aides drove forward, and ordered the men to clear the way. The men saluted the officers, and appeared to obey oiders; but when the Czar's sledge came on a level with them, they , suddenly wheeled round and fired at him thrice, and two of them ran toi wards the sledge. The horses attacked ) became frightened, and galloped some .lpO, paces, when the Czar was thrown * out of the sledge. A. bullet lodged m the Czar's shoulder, but it was not a dangerous wound; -The Czar's followers 1 immediately mounted the sledge horses . and followed the assassins who, howeyer, escaped to . a neighboring wood. Owing to the depth of the snow the pursuit was fruitless. One of the ; pursuing offi cers ventured too far and did not return. The Telegiaph thinks the attack was an attempt to execute the sentence of death recently passed '. onithe Czar by the Nihilists. 7