The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-08-13

seems to be no doubt that but for the
many fashionable elements contained in
the Kissingen crowd in midsummer the
criminal would have been lynched on
the spot. The street in front of the
Princes villa meanwhile resounded
with hurrahs. Everybody wanted to
see and congratulate the illustrious
statesman who had just had such mar
row escape. The Prince appeared
moment on the balcony, and then de-
scending the stairs, joined the crowd
outside. Tho hurrahs redoubled as
the public convinced themselves
that the object of their solicitude
was safe, Having spent short time in
the doorway, the Prince withdrew. He,
however, appeared again half an hour
later, when he drove to the prison to
have private interview with the in
tended murderer. On this occasion his
arm was in sling. Coming home he
received Herr Lederer, and thanked
him heartily for his timely aid in stop
ping the assassin. Later an especial
thanksgiving service was performed by
the Protestant clergy of the place. A
torchlight procession in the true Ger
man style closed the day.
Edward Kullman is a journeyman
cooper, twenty years old, a Roman
Catholic, and member Of several relig-
ious societies He is a native of Mag
deburg, whittier his parents removed
from the Eichsfeld, peculiarly barren
and impoverished country in the Prus-
sian provinces Of Saxony, and the only
Romanist district far and wide. His
father is huckster, selling dried fish in
the lower neigh borhood of Magdeburg.
His mother has been in a lunatic
asylum at Halle for the last year. Ed
ward, the would-be assassin, at the age
of fourteen was apprenticed to a mas
ter cooper in his native city. Upon the
expiration of his term of four years, he
travelled fo- a yea or so, working in
different cities at his trade, as is the
custom Of the German workmen. He
then returned to Magdeburg, and soon
after, in company with some dissolute
comrades, attacked his late master in
the street, stabbing and wounding him,
though not dangerously, for which he
was sent to prison for three months.
After this he went to Salszwedel, where
he joined the Catholic Journeymen'
Society, and three months ago he dis.
appeared without leaving any clue
behind him. He is described
as remarkably stolid
fellow, coarse, cool and determined.
At the interview with Prince Bismarck,
after the deed, he is stated to have
openly avowed his intention to kill the
man who, in his opinion, is injuring the
Pope and expressing the Church. He
is also reported to have said in prison
that he had accomplices and knew what
he was about to do, statement appar-
emily borne out by slip Of paper
found on his person, containing Bis
marck' address at Kissingen, in ele-
CANT writing. The priest who stepped
before the horses at the critical mo-
ment, and was also arrested a few hours
later, had been seen promenading up
and down in front of Bismarck's villa,
in kullman's company, for an hour and
a half before the attempt. These and
other symptoms indicating the exis-
tence of a conspiracy have caused
number Of the police to be sent to Kis-
sengen to protect the Chancellor from
REPETITION of the murderous attack.
The event has had an undesirable infu-
ence upon the season at Kissengen.
While the patients taking the mineral
waters of the famous Spa are frightened
by the possibility of recurrence of
such acts Of violence, the curious are
thronging in from all sides to inspect
the locality and watch the course Of
events The Princes written evidence
is already in the hands Of the Judge of
Inquiry.