Czarevitch Shot By A Revolutionist.

New York Times 100 years ago today, October 28, 1912:
Dodged as Assassin Fired, and Bullet Lodged in His Lower Abdomen.
WOMAN'S PART IN THE PLOT
Admiral's Love for Helen Soyoloff Used to Gain Access to Royal Yacht — Assassin Escaped from Russia.
By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times.
    LONDON, Oct. 27.— The Daily Mail prints the following dispatch from Paris:
    "From the same reliable source to which I owed the information already published of the attempt on the life of the Czar's son, I have received the following details: The young Prince was shot with a Browning pistol, and owed his life to the fact that when he saw the individual approach with the pistol pointing at him he attempted to escape. But the assailant was too quick, and as the startled boy turned to one side he fired. The bullet inflicted a deep wound in the lower part of the abdomen. Although of a grave nature, the wound is not considered likely to have a fatal result.

Escape of the Assassin.
    "In the confusion the person who fired the shot slid down a rope over the side of the imperial yacht Standart and escaped, either in a boat or by swimming ashore. He succeeded in getting out of Russia. It is through his confession that the attempt at assassination became known outside of Court circles,
    "Admiral Chagin was not aboard the yacht when the Prince was wounded. The rôle played by the girl student, Helen Soyoloff, who tried to commit suicide after the Admiral's suicide and to whom he left a considerable sum of money in his will, is more serious than has yet been hinted at; and in view of her responsibility in the matter, it is, perhaps, not surprising that she attempted her life.
    "It is necessary to recall that in 1882, the year following the assassination of Czar Alexander II., a military revolutionary party was formed in St. Petersburg, with branches at Kronstadt, Nicolaieff, and Sevastopol, it had as its chief Col. Aschenbrenner, with whom were associated Lieuts. Baron Stromberg and Suchanoff. The famous Nihilist Marie Vera Figner was also a member.

Military Party May Exist.
    "Suchanoff, after being tried for complicity in a Nihilist plot, was shot, and Marie Figner and Col. Aschenbrenner were condemned to death, but their sentences were commuted to twenty years' detention in a fortress. The military organization to which these revolutionaries belonged was disbanded, but I believe it recently was reformed.
    "Helen Soyoloff, with whom Admiral Chagin was in love, is reported to have been one of its emissaries. Thanks to her influence with him, the unsuspecting officer was made use of to facilitate the access of revolutionaries to the imperial yacht, and the attempt on the life of the Czar's son was rendered possible.
    The London Times's St. Petersburg correspondent says: "The bulletins from Spala daily become more hopeful. Any danger to the life of the Czarevitch is now apparently over. Another version of the accident is widely credited. It is said the Prince slipped in his bath and struck his left side against the tap. The incomprehensible silence of the court bulletins has given free scope to sensation-mongers. There is not a single word of truth in the rumors about a plot."