Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-06-19
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A Remarkable Career.


The following remarkable sketch of
the career of Lieutenant De Rudio OF
Clusters old Seventh Cavalry, now sta
toned at Bismarck, W. T., is told by
Bismarck correspondent of the ST. Paul
Pioneer Press. De Rudio is the man
who with Sergeant O'Niel had such a
marvellous two days experience in the
midst of the hostile Sioux two years
ago, keeping them at bay from cover
with repeating rifle for hours; then
travelling through their country for
their situation. De Rudio was origi-
nallv an officer in the Austrian army,
but was expelled and exiled for SYM
pathy with the oppressed Italians.
Louis Napoleon had belonged TO the
Italian association of patriots, had
proven traitor, and was then, in 1858,
in the way of successful political
revolution. His death would turn all
Europe topsy-turvy, and give the op-
pressed hearing. On the 10th of jan
uary, 1858, De RudiO dropped into Paris.
He was there by appointment. He was
a fellow conspirator of Feliee Orsini.
Ii was planned that the Emperor should
die at one of his grand balls, at the
hand of guests dagger. De Rudio
called that igroble, assassination, GRIM
inal. He said: "Kill him when he is
surrounded by his laneers in the public
street, when he has every guard thrown
around his imperial person!" The
plot was changed, and the now histori-
cal scene OF January ii, 1858, followed.
De RudiO's book gives picture of the
drama in front of the Grand Opera
House that is remarkably distinct.
There were five hand grenades, or
bombshells, to be thrown-three into the
royal carriage and one some distance In
front and one in the rear, to keep back
the crowd until the con spiratOrs were
sure OF their work and escape. The En-
peror's carriage, with the Emperor and
Empress Eugene in it, approached the
grand stairway of the opera house
through file of lancers on either side.
De Rudio says he was standing immedi-
ately behind the soldiers when the car
riage came up, watching the eonspira-
tor who was commissioned to throw the
first grenade. When he saw his
arm make a curve through the air, De
Rudio dropped to the ground, quick as
the explosion occurred he raised him
self up and tossed his grenade over the
heads of the lancers, and again dropped,
waiting for Orsini TO throw the third
one; but Orsini was blinded by the
smoke from DE RudiO's shell and
wounded in the head; this miss of Or
sini kept the eonspiratOrs from throw
ing their grenades until it was too late,
one more was thrown out of its order.
De RudiO's she'll fell under the front
wheels, killing the horses, the coach
man, and tearing out the whole side of
the carriage. There was the widest
dismay. 1t was an attack in the dark.
The laneers fell back, the crowd scat
tered, the horses plunged 20 the right
and left and confusion cOnfounded
reigned supreme. De RudiO's design
finish His Majesty with dagger if the
grenades failed. Orsini's blindness pre-
vented the execution of that part OF the
plot. De Rudio knew that his own life
was worth nothing if he broke for the
carriage before the third grenade was
thrown. He, therefore, waited until
the third explosion occurred. The de-
lay in delivering it, and the fact that It
was thrown by the fourth man instead
Of the third, demoralized the working
of the plot and gave the laneers time to
rally and surround the carriage. De
RudiO saw that personal knowledge of
the Emperor's death was impossible at
tina: time. He withdrew from the
scene. There had been several killed,
and any amount of CONSERVATION ere
ated, and our conspirator was pretty
well satisfied that the object of his at
tack was dead. He rapidly realized
that all Paris was startled, and before
sunrise all France would be. 1t was
night of terror in the city. The extent
Of the conspiracy was a secret TO all ex-
cept the conspiratOrs- There was univer-
sal dread OF all the possibilities of Il
During the night there
were 81 killed and III wounded. The
storm passed, and the Emperor and
Empress remained unharmed. At 3
o'clock in the morning De Rudio was
arrested at his lodgings. A roommate
and fellow conspiratOr, Pieri, had been
and, upon his relations with
De RudiO, the latter was suspicioned
and brought before the Judge of In
structions for preliminary hearing.
The plot covered that contingency, and
in a few minutes De Rudio proved an
llibi and was discharged. He was sub
rearrested, sentenced to the
yuillotine, and his sentence was only
on the scaffold steps. He
was then sentenced to the French penal
settlement in Guinea, Africa, from
which he escaped to America, where
where he joined the United States reg
llar army.
short-SiSht.
Short-sightedness depends upon an