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cepted all Austrian officers who had
| Joined the insurrectionists. De Rudio
| from that houx became an exile. He
went to Genoa, the only place in Italy
where an exile could remain any length
of time. She and the surrounding
province were the exiles' home. There
were 100000 in the province. De Ru-
do became member of the Young
Italy Secret Society, founded by the
great patriot, Joseph Mazzini. In Genoa
the patriots undertook a revolutionary
proceeding at the funeral of a leader
They were refused admittance to GEN.
etery and they forced the gates. Over
the grave the speeches were bitter and
revolutionary. The police interfered
and De Rudio fired pistol shot. The
signal turned 5000 men upon the Off
GERS of the law, wounding sew
eral, and driving them pell-mell
from the sacred ground. An
investigation and trial followed.
Public sentiment would not permit a
sentence of death, but a Punishment of
"a was found inevitable. De RudiO was
one of them. On board the ship carry
ing the exiles to an inhospitable part of
Spain occurred a mutiny, and the YES
sci was forced to land at Cartagena.
The league of Mizzini had spread into
France, and in March, 1851, De Rudio
became an active agent; or, as he terms
it, ga missionary" After travelling
over the greater part of France he ar
rived in Paris in time to see the Deem
Der massacre of that year, and join a
barricade. From Paris he had to fly.
He found Switzerland favorable Cline
From there he returned to Genoa, was
recognized and expelled a second time.
Back to Switzerland and then to Turin,
where he was personally unknown.
Passing under another name he was all
this time +" "a missionary" keeping alive
the embers of royal hate. 1t was a
revolution. In 1853, Mazzini, De Rudio,
and 10 others were banished from
Switzerland under the operations of in
ternational law. They were given their
choice, England or America. De Rudio
answered England, asitwas nearer Italy,
to which country he intended to return.
He went back, as his missionary duties
required, was arrested and banisbed
another time.
THE NAPoLBoNt6 PLOT.
Louis Napoleon had belonged to the
Italian association of patriots, had
proven traitor, and was then, in 1858,
in the way of a successful political revo-
luton. His death would turn all Eu-
rope topsy-turvy, and give the oppressed
a hearing. On the 10th of January,
1858, de Rudio dropped into Paris. He
was there by appointment. He was a
fellow-conspirator of Felice orsini. 1t
was planned that the Emperor should
die at one of his grand balls, at the
hands Of guests dagger. De Rudio
called that ignoble, assassination, GRIM
inal. He said: " Kill him when he is
surrounded by his lancers in the public
street, when he has every guard thrown
around his imperial personi" The plot
was changed, and the now historical
scene of JANUARY IA, 1858, followed. De
Rudio's book gives a picture of the
drama in front of the Grand Opera
House that is remarkably distinct.
There were five hand grenades or bomb
shells 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 conspirators were
sure of their work and escape. The
Emperor's carriage, with the Emperor
and Empress Eugene in it, approached
the Grand stairway of the Opera House
through a file of lancers on either side.
De Rudio says he was standing imme-
diately behind the soldiers when the
carriage came up, watching the con-
spirator 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 himself 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
Orsini kept the conspirators from throw
ing their grenades until it was too late /;
one more was thrown out of its order.
De Rudio's shell fell under the front
wheels, killing the horses, the coach
man and tearing out whole side of the
carriage. There was the widest dis
may. 1t was an attack in the dark. The
lancers fell back, the crowd scattered,
the horses plunged to the right and left,
and confusion COMPOUNDED reigned SUI
preme. De Rudio's design was to dash
through the laneers and finish his Ma
jesty with dagger If the grenades fail
ed. Orsini's blindness prevented the
execution of that part of the plot. De
Rudio knew that his own life was worth
nothing if he broke for the carriage be-
fore the third grenade was thrown. He
therefore waited until the third explo-
sion occurred. The delay 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 lancers time tC
rally and surround the carriage. De
Rudio saw that personal knowledge
of the Emperor's death wa;
impossible at that time. He with
drew from the scene. There had been
several killed, and any amount of con.
sternation created, and our conspiratol
was pretty well satisfied that the Object
of his attack was dead. He rapidly
realized that all Paris was startled, anC
before sunrise all France would be. L
was a night of terror in the city. The
extent of the conspiracy was secret t.
all except the conspirators. There wai
universal dread of all the possibilities o
a Commune. During the night their
were "a killed and III wounded. TIT
storm passed, and the Emperor anC
Empress remained unframed. At
O'Clock in the morning
DE RUDIo WAS ARRESTED
at his lodgings. A roommate and fel
low-conspirator, Pieri, had been arrest
ed, and upon his relations with De Rude
the latter was suspicioned and brough
before the Judge of Instructions for
preliminary hearing. The plot covered
that contingency, and in a few minutes
De Rudio proved an alibi and was dis
charged. As he was leaving the build
ing he passed Gormez, in the custody o