, 1865-08-04
NUMBER 81.
attempted Political Assassinations Since
1850

1850
The Unita CaHolica gives the following
list of all the attempts at political assassin
alton that have been made since 1850:
"Queen Victoria can count four attempts
on her life On June 28, 1850, she re-
ceiyed a violent BLOW with a stick from one
Robert Pate, a retired Lieutenant Of the
Tenth Hussars. t., tr.g
t" In May, 1850, the late King of Prus-
sia received, as he was mounting a railway
carriage, shot from holster pistol of largs
bore in the forearm, The assassin, Sefeage,
of Wetzlow, cried out as he fired, Liberty
forever" The life of the Present King
was in danger at Baden, on the morning of
July IA, 1861 Two pistol shots were fred
at him by Oscar Becker, law student Of
Leipsic. The regicide declared that Ne
wished to kill the King because he was not
capable of efecting the unity Of Germany.
On February Is, 1858, at Vienna, Fran
els Joseph |. was struck with knife in the
nape of the neck. The murderers name
was Libeny, of Abe, in Hungary, aged 20,
resident at Vienna, and tailor by trade
On March 20, 1854, Ferdinand Charles
Ill Duke Of Parma, returning from an ex-
cursion, was hustled BY an individual who
at the same time stabbed him in the abdo-
men, left the poignard in the wound, and
subsequently escaped The Duke expired
in cruel torture at the end of % hours
On May 28, 1856, as Queen Isabella was
passing in her carriage along the Rue de
IArsenal at Madrid, young man named
Raymond Fuentes, drew pistol from his
pocket and would have discharged it at her,
head had not his arm been caught and his
weapon taken from him by an agent of the
police. ,.
On December 8, 1856, whilst Ferdinand
II was reviewing his, troops at Naples, a sol
dier, named Agesiras Milano struck him
with his bayonet, and, at a later period, Gar
ibaldi honorcd the memory of the regicide
In October, 1852 when Napoleon III,
who was on the eve of becoming Emperor,
was at Marseilles, there had been prepared
an Internal machine, formed by two hundred
and fifty |gun- barrels charged with fifteen,
hundred balls, intended to 60 off all at once,
against the Prince and his. cOrtege but the
attempt was not carried out. July 5, 1858,
fresh attempt was made to ,assassinate him
as he was going to the Opera Comique.
Twelve Frenchmen were arrested as con-
cerned in the conspiracy April 2S, 1865,
Jean Liyerani fired two shots at the Emper-,
or in the Grand Avenue of the Champs
Ulysses. In 1851 Thibaldi, Bartolotti, and
Grill came from England to Paris to assas-
sinate the Emperor, but were discovered, ar
rested, tried and punished. January IA,
1858, Orsini, Comes, Pierri and Rudio
threw their murderous shells at the Emper-
or of the French and shed the blood of
great number of honest citizens in Paris
December "a, 1868, Greco, Trabucco, I'm,
peratore and Scaglaoni, who. had come over
from London with the intention Of Killing
the Emperor, were arrested in Paris,
On September Is, 1862, the Queen of
Greece, directing public affairs during the
kings absence, was returning from ride
on horseback, when she was fred at without
effecttnea thepalace, by Aristide Donsios,
a student, aged nineteen years., ,Aagy,
1883 an attempt was made on the life
of Victor Emanuel III, and Count Cayour
gave an account of it in the sitting OF April
16.
April IA, 1865, at Ford's Thcater in
Washington, Abraham Lincoln, President
of the United States of America, was assas-
sinated by Booth"