The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-06-18
WHO KILLED THEPRlNCE?
How the Sensational Story of the
Tragic Death Of the Prince
Imperial Was Received
in Paris.


q dying Nihilist to a San Francisco
doctor, who repeated il to \ reporter
that "never told lle.'' For two or
three days all the newspapers discus
sed the matter from many points of
view. An old refugee OF the COM
muna, who edit red republican
sheet called La BGtdiLLe, pronounced
the story true, and gave us details
over his own signature. Lissagalay.
The article was entitled: How We
Killed Him." aud was fine speci
men o. cynical boastlng. l translate
it sc follows:
A COLD FLOODED RECITAL.
"NoW that the amnesty has re-
stored to France all the pros :ribej;
now that the Bonapsrtist party is
quasi extinct, or at least poWerIess to
infict any vengeance, we can tell the
entire truth, even at the risk of re-
voting the tender hearted; and this
truth lie as follows:
ayes, it is We VINO killed him!
1--WE may be accused Of cynicism,
bat We will not hesitate at any of the
details. When We, the prescribed
outlaws of the commune, arrived id
London toward the end Of 1871, We
found little Of the millions that the In
ternstionale had accumulated. They
bad been spent. as every one knows,
in arousing and supporting the insur-
rection of May Is. Each one Of Us
had TO set himself TO work, which was
rough on men who during two
months had been pillsgiDg the Bank
OF Francs. Little by little We began
70 get accustomed to it; then, like all
refugees do, We began to form into
groups. and we established fund for
mutual assistance, for the prOpsga.
ton Of the cause, and for action,
When We had got together fairly
round sum We determined, in q SOL
enn meeting that was held, to select
some OF our number to stab Napoleon
III. 30 as to leave an open field to N.
Theirs, whose picadilloes toward Us
We bad entirely forgotten. Napoleon
III. died before We bad got our poig-
nard shsrpened. We we're, let us
confess it, discouraged. Then the
divisions that are inevitable in exile
arose. The afisir of the 18th of May
drew as together again. We under
stood that the intrigues Of the Prince
Imperial would trouble the blue sky
OF Marshal de McMahou. who
had, it is true. a somewhat heavy
hand for us, but who st heart favored
the republic. for the reason that be
WAS its president, and that he was sc
honest as Bsyard. We subscribsd
again and said 10 each other: Let
Us sweep clear the sky of 4ache-LG.
Homie (chew the shame-a nickname
which the communards gave the
marshsl): let as suppress tine Prince
Imperial"
"To attempt to strike the blow 10
London was dihcUlt, for the Camden
House, the residence of the prince
MSS strongly guarded By the police,
and the English allowed no trihing
with these Nspolsons who had done
90 much ;or them. Fortunately, the
Zulu war broke out, and tbs son OF
Sedan took it into his head to 60 to
join the English troops. Our plan
was soon decided on. There were
400 OF as prescribed ones in London,
and there were some who were gain
ing IS much az seven francs day.
We bu k!e1 our belts tighter. and in a
few hours We had collected thousands
OF francs. Our plan was to follow
the prince and kill him, or cause him
to fail into some Ambuscade. Every
body volunteered to take 8 part in
the expedition. We selected the most
energetic ones amongst as; Philippe
3erre, Tounelet, Vslouski, and 9
fourth, and they left With their
pockets fall of bank-notes. They sue
ceeded in insinuatibg themselves into
the intimacy OF the prince and in
getting allies among the Zulus. When
We learned the great news We voted
them a pension out of the funds sat
aside for the assistance Of the needy.
Alssl they were not TO profit by It.
Tounelet and Valouski having died
what fatality vas it that took Berre Il
California; What has become o
our fourth emissary? I do not know
Let ne, however, admire the dlscre-
ton of our elnisssries, since the so
distant Philippe Berre did not leVts
the truth until be Vas on his death
bed"
CLEVER CONTRADICTION.
But while the rabid Lissagsray va
writing this article the Figaro va
showing unusual enterprise By tele
graphing to San Francisco to ascsr
tain il the article which it had copie
from toe Chronicle was or was DO
q hoax. The same morning that L
BGtditte published the foregelD
monument of cynical boasting to
Figaro printed dispatch from Dan
iel Levy, director of the Frenc
Library in San Franeisco-it cost rs
francs-in which be stated the articI
was pure invention. There ais
appeared at the same time le:tt
J from the Marquis de BAssano, th
: gentleman who accompanied ex En-
press Eugene in her pilgrimage
Lulalsnd. 10 this letter be recit'
that which all the world knows, VI
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