The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-04-18

| Venetian blind trailing out and held up from
within half foot of the bottom. The interior
OF such a house one could easily imagine Two
men in blouses drinking glasses of inky wine
grisette and her mother busy at slop-work,
above them some grimy gunsmith in swarthy
attire filing and scraping, busy by himself, or
with some CHEEKY comrade, too industrious even
to throw up the blind and look out.
All at once, from no one knows where, comes
sound like a badly executed volley, mingled
with o sort of mutlled report In moment
there is terrible gap in the kings escort, and
there arise cries OF rage and terror, for the
boulevard is strewn with dead and dying men
and horses. Men have fallen behind and round
the king, but he and his sons are unhurt In
the lane facing the house, and under the terrace
of the Turkish Garden, rain of shot had in the
same way cut path in the crowd. 3
The excitement was almost maddenlng The
spectators and the National Guards flew in all di.
rections, as ii an ambuscade battery had opened
upon them and was about to fire again, wbirl-
wind OF fear swept the boulevard. Had the earth
opened, or hre iallen from heaven? Noone knew
what had happened. But there lay the heap of
torn and bleeding men, and there was the watt
or smoke still drifting from the fatal window
Where the blind was lifted for air. Lenormand
had been right after all; the popular terror had
some foundation. This was the blow that WAS
threatened, And what was TO follow? In
moment the more resoute men, the soldiers
especially, who are accustomed to any sudden
ness OF death, threw themselves upon the door
OF No. 90, from whose top window the smoke
stlll kept breaking out in thick whifs.
Ihe king was unhurt all but craze on the fore
head from abullct. Themane fhs horse had also
Deen SKINNED by shot, The horse starting,
mad struck the kings arm against the head of
the Due de Nemours' horse, aud for moment
Louis thought that he was hit. The horses of
the two princes, who rode forward eager for
their fathers safety were also grazed; but he
relieved their anxiety by few words. Then
with one look of deep grief at the carnage
around him, the king rode forward, reassuring
the National Guards by his presence and his
words.
When the crowd of soldiers and citizens went
to raise the wounded, they round fOrty-two
tally wounded. The nineteen, included
the following:-Poor old Marshal Mortier,
sixty-seyen years old struck by ball
that had penetrated his left ear, traversed the
cervical vertebra; Marquis Lachasse de Verigny,
aeed sixty, struck in the head by the bullet, and
his horse killed by five balls in the neck; the
marquis died that night. Colonel Ratfe, of the
pired in the night. Count Oscar de Villette
captain of artillery, thirty-four years old skull
by two slugs Rieussec, lieutenant.
colonel Of the Sth legion of National Guards
breeding establishment at Viroflay; killed
by three bullets. Labrouse, seventy-two
years DID, tax collector OF the 7th arrondisse-
ment, struck in the right arm and abdomen;
died two days after. Leger, mathematical
instrument maker and grenadier of the 8th
legion, Benettet, ebony carver, and grenadler of
the Sth legion; killed on the spot. Prudhomme,
marble cutter, and sergeant of grenadiers; dead.
Ricard, wine merchant and grenadier; dead
Brunot and lnglar, weavers; dead. Ardouin, a
journalist; dead Madame Ledernet; shot in
the thigh, Madame Briosne; four wounds In the
thigh. Madame Langoray, workwoman,
mother of four children, one OF whom was in
her arms when she fell dead. Rose Alison,
servant; wounded in the thigh. Louise Josephine
Remy, little girl OF fourteen, dead. Leclerc,
an apprentice of thirteen years old, died
month afterwards,
The twenty-three wounded consisted of five
superior officers, eight National Guards,
five workmen, three, children, ana i've
generals, and bakers, chef d'escadron
and dyer, the son of a mayor and
street gamin; lady fell beside her dying, hus:
band and dead sister; there were wounds of
every kind in the breast and on the head,
thighs and feet, hands and mouth. hair
breadth of difference IN the elevation OF the
ambuscade battery, and more than two hundred
persons would have been moved down by that
storm of slugs and bullets second sooner, and
the king must have fallen, riddled by shots.
Before the wounded and the dead
could be removed to the hospital of st.
so had been surrounded by crowd
of enraged and shouting men, commissaries OF
police police agents, National Guards, and
maddened citizens. Ali the doors were at once
blocked up by the crowd; the ground floor and
the first floor, where N. Durant's WINE shop
was, was ransacked and searched in every part.
M. Jaquemin, commissary of the police, was
the first to ascend to the third floor. A kick or
two of his foot and the barricaded door fell
in, and NJ. Jaquemin and three Municipal
Guards, seven or eight National Guards, and NJ.
Bessas Lamegie, Mayor of the 10th arron-
dissement rushed in, The first two rooms were
empty; in the third, which was thick with
smoke they found at the open window rough
framework, like a clumsy table with the top
removed in this had been screwed twenty five
gun-barres some of these were split and shat
tered almost all displaced bY the terrible eXDlO-
sion. On the right-hand side was a fireplace in
which bazed fire of straw and wood, The
police, suspecting some trap in a fire too large
for a garret on hot July day, at once scattered
and put out the fagots.
As the mems eyes grew accustomed to
the thick sulphurous smoke oozing from
hell itself, as it seemed to their excited
minds, they saw that the room was empty,
but that there were smears of fresh blood
on the wall. On the floor, near the door,
lay pierced grey hat, with pieces of torn gun
barrel near it. All at once NJ. Jacquemin, cry
ing ''They are here" springs on a door in the
wall facing the window, but it to be only
q large cupboard containing some straw and a
mattress. Returning through the two rooms,
the soldiers and police found on the left hand
small kitchen with window looking out upon
the courtyard Here also there was a hat
pierced with fragments of gun-Darrels and there
were prints of fresh blood, There is a ladder in
one corner and trap.door in the ceiling. This
| monster of evil, this last embodiment of Satan,
! must be there. NJ Jacquemin is mounting the
! ladder, when Corporal Dautrep, OF the Munich
! pal Guard, draws him back
''If they are there" he says, 81 am armed"
He mounts with sword drawn and pistol
| ready. His comrades wait lmpauently for his
| cry for help but there is nothing there but q
| portmanteau that has held gun-barrels, ham
mer flask basket, and a sealed letter. Just
! then, soldier, looking out at the WINDOW, hnds
a rope hanging down into the court DeloW. 1t
is covered in places with blood, and the police
at once feel sure that the assassins have escaped