Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-18
THE REGICIDAL RECORD.
Attempted AsaassinafIonsi in the last
Thirty Years.

a paper puDllShed at Berne complied
last year list of all the known attempts
at assassination that has been made since
1850, under the heading, Recent Reei.
cides, term which, however expires.
sive, is scarcely accurate, inasmuch as
the compilation includes attempts on the
lives of magistrates and statesmen, as
well as on the lives of Princes and poten-
tates. The first crime recorded in this
register is the attempt made In May, 1850,
by the Westphalian, Safelage. to shoot the
King of Prussia, TO the cry of Liberty
for all" On June 90 of the same year.
Robert Pate, a retired Lieutenant of
Hussars, struck the Queen Of England
with cane-an assault certainly, but
not an assault with intent to kill. In
October. 1852. a conspiracy to blow up
Louis Napoleon with an internal ma
chine containing 1900 proiectiles, was
frustrated by the activity of the police.
On February II, 1853, the Emperor of
Austria was stabbed in the back by
Hungarian shoemaker of the name of
Libeney. On the 5th of July following
a second attempt was made on the life of
Louis Napoleon on his way to the Opera
Comique On March 20, 1854, Ferdi-
u1uO OudIlCS ILL., OQhC VI WAS
stabbed by an unknown hand. Part of
the dagger remained in the wound which.
it inflicted, and the Duke died
after twenty-three hours of terrible suf-
fering. The murderer escaped. In 1866
the Italian, Pianori, shot twice at the
French Emperor in the Tuileries Garden.
In March, 1856, Spaniard of the name
of RaimOnd Fuemes was arrested just as
he was in the act of firing q pistol at his
sovereign, and the execution of his MUIR
derous design prevented On December
s, in the same year. Ferdinand IL, King
of the Two Sicilies, was attacked at a
review by one of his own soldiers, who
wounded him with his bayOnet. In 1857
the Italian conspirators, Tibaldi, Barto.
letti and Greli, arrived in Paris, with the
intention of numbering the Emperor, but
fell into the hands of the police before
their design could be carried into execu-
tion.
On January IA of the following year
Orsini, Comes, Pieri and Rudio made
their famous attempt to blow up the
Emperor and Empress with bombshells
on their way to the opera. Their Males
ties escaped with some slight contusions,
but more than one hundred persons of
their escort were killed and wounded.
In December, 1868, another attempt was
made on the life of Napoleon by band
of Italian assas sins. The attempt failed,
and the would-be murderers were cap
tured. The same year the then Queen
of Greece was wounded by pistol shot
fired by the student Dosios. On the
14th of April 1865, President Lincoln
was murdered by Wilkes Booth at
Washington, and Secretary Sew
ard dangerously wounded by an
accomplice. A year later, almost
to a day, the Emperor of Russia
was shot at by man of good position
by the name of Petrouik in the garden
of his palace at st. Petersburg. a peas
ant, who struck up Petrouik's pistol aud
so turned the shot aside and in all proba-
bility saved the Emperor's life, was re-
warded with title of nobility and the
commission of Captain in the army
The month afterward, or, to be precise,
in May, 1866, Eugene Cohen fired five
shots at Bismarck while the latter was
walking Inter den Linden, in Berlin,
one of which struck and slightly woun-
ded the great Minister
On June 6, 1867, the Cars life was
again attempted by Pole named Bere-
zowski while the Emperor was visiting
the Emperor of the French at Paris
On June 10, 1853, Prince Michel, of
Servia, and lady of his family were
brutally murdered in the park of To
peider. In 1872 Bismarcks life was
again attempted, this time by man of
the name of Westerwelle, and in 1874
| -, 10 o1I -
Kissengen. On August g. 1875, the
| President of the Republic of Ecuador,
Gabriel Garcia Moreno. was murdered
in the Government House at Quito, and
in April, 1877, similar fate befell the
| President of the Republic of Paraguay.
On May II, 1878, the German Emperor
was shot at by Hoedel, and on June
2, less than month later, by Nobiling,
receiving on the latter occasion wounds
by which his life was seriously endan-
gered. NobiliDg killed himself in prison,
while Hoedel perished on the scaffold.
| On October %, of the same year, an at
| tempt TO assassinate the King of Spain
was made by the Socialist, Moncas, who,
taken red d-handed, paid with his life the
| penalty of bis crime Less than month
thereafter, November II, the life of King
Humbert, of Italy, was attempted by
Passanante, whose sentence of death was
commuted, at His Majesty's own in
stance, to one of perpetual imprison-
ment.
On April ID, 1879, four shots were
| fired at the Gar by a retired functionary
of the Finance Department named Solo
vieff, as he was taking his morning walk
near the Winter Palace. In addressing
the people who came to congratulate him
on his safety the Car said "This is the
third time God has saved me-" On De
cember, /, 1879, an attempt was
made to wreck the Cars train while
he was travelling from st. Peters
burg to Moscow. His train es-
capped, but the baggage train was blown
off the track by an explosion, a tunnel
having been dug under the road bed and
| filled with powder. On February II,
1880, mine was laid below the dining
hall in the Winter Palace and fired about
the time the Gar and his family were in
the habit of dining. Fortunately they
| had been delayed on this occasion. Five
soldiers were killed and thirty.five
wounded. The closing day of the old
year witnessed the latest essay at regi-
eide on record, until the great crime of
| Sunday last-the attempt of Otero to
shoot the King and Queen of Spain.
Mrs. Garfield in the White House.