The Henson Journals
Mon 27 August 1906
Volume 16, Page 113
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Monday, August 27th, 1906.
We packed our trunks, and took a kind farewell of our friends, and so departed. Leaving Crieff at 1.50 p.m., having picked up on the way the silver sauce bowl gained by Ella in a Bazaar raffle, we changed at Crieff Junction, and then went on to Glasgow by way of Dunblane & Stirling. At the Queen Street Station we ran into Mr Johnstone, the owner of the Hanging Shaw, Selkirk. We reached Auchinlea, Helensburgh about 6 p.m., and found Charlie Parker & Dorothy his wife visiting there.
The papers reported another abominable outrage from Russia. Some miscreant attempted to destroy the Premier, M. Stolypin, with a bomb. The victim escaped, but no less than 30 persons were killed by the explosion, and many injured. Among the latter were his two children.