Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-07-31

toll from his pocket, and, deliberately taxing
aim, fred at the Prince at few PAGES dis
lance. The man being to the left of the car
rage, the Prince having raised his right hand
in saluting, the bullet grazed the palm just
below the thumb. The shot had no sooner
been fred than the coachman, fearing a sec
ond shot, struck the assassin right across the
face with the lash of his whip. Upon this,
fliDgiDg away the pistol, the man ran for his
life. The priest decamped the moment the
shot was fired, the few spectators on the spot
hardly realizing what had happened. In sup
pressed excitement the Prince ordered the
coachman to drive home. As the carriage
turned he glanced hastily toward the villa in
habited by him, and seeing his daughter
standing motionless on the balcony, beck
oned to her to signify that all was well, but
the Countess Marie was apparently too over
come by emotion to heed the sign he gave.
While the Prince was entering the villa
and a gentleman assisted the Countess into
the room, the news of the startling event
spread among the people in the street. A cry
of indignation arose, and several gentlemen
ran in the direction in which the assassin had
fed. They found him struggling in the grasp
of a gentleman who, having witnessed the
whole scene from distance, intercepted the
assassin as he was eEdeayorng to escape.
Although the tussle had been but of few
seconds duration, the assassin, setting on his
adversary with the utmost fury, had bitten
his thumb, torn his ctavat, and attempted to
throttle him. But the gentleman, Herr
Lederer, an actor at the Grand Ducal Theatre
at Darmstadt, had stood his ground until
those in pursuit came up BY this time the
street was crowded The fashionable guests
of the famous watering place had collected.
turned out in body, and mingling with all
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in terrible excitement. One-half in which
the ladies were numerously represented, made
for the Princes villa the gentlemen mostly
hurrying on to join those who were conduct
ing the prisoner to Jail. There seems to be
no doubt that but for the many fashionable
elements contained in Il Kissengen 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 con
graduate the illustrious Statesman who had
just had such narrow escape. The Prince
appeared moment on the balcony, and then,
descending the stairs, Joined the crowd out
side. The burrahs redOubled as the public
convinced themselves that the object of their
solicitude was safe. Having spent a short
time in the doorway, the Prince withdrew.
He, however, appeared again half an hour
later, when he drove to the prison to have a
private interview with his intended murderer.
On this occasion his arm was in sling. Com
ing home he received Herr Lederer, and
thanked him heartily for his timely aid in
stopping the assassin. Later an especial
thanksgiving service was performed by the
Protestant clergy OF the place. torchlight
procession in the true German style closed
the day.
Edward Kullman is a journeyman cooper
twenty years old, Roman Catholic, and
member of several religious societies. He is
a native of Magdeburg, whittier his parents
removed from the Eichsfeld, a peculiarly
barren aud impoverished county in the Prus
sian province of Saxony, and the only Roman
ist district far and wide. His father is a
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
Edward, the would be assassin, at the age of
fourteen was apprenticed TO a master cooper
in his native city. Upon the expiration of
his term of four years, he travelled for year
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, stab
bling and wounding him, though not danger.
ously, for which he was sent to prison for
three months. After this be went to Salsz-
wedel, where he joined the Catholic Journey
mems 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 who knew
what he was about to do, a statement appar-
emily borne out by slip of paper found on his
person, containing Bismsrck's address at Kis-
sengen, in elegant writing. The priest who
stepped before the horses at the critical mo-
ment, and was also arrested few hours
later, had been seen promenading up and
down in front of Bismarck's villa, in Kull-
mans company, for an hour and halt before
the attempt. These and other symptoms in
dicating the existence of a conspiracy have
caused number of the Police to be sent to
Kissengen, to protect the Chancellor from a
repetition of the murderous attack. The
event has had an undesirable influence upon
the season at Kissengen. While the patients
taking the mineral waters of the famous Spa
are frightened by the possibility of recur-
renee of such acts of violence, the curious are
throngipg 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.