The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-19
BEREZOWSKI.
A Motion for His NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. {
His Attempt on the Cars Life.

Motion for His Observation-Disclosures of
His Attempt on the Cars Life.
Washington Letter.
The cable dispatches recently contained
the following:
Gin the Chamber of Deputies, to-day, NJ. Tai
andier, deputy for the Department of the Seine
offered motion for the pardon of BerezOwski,
the Pole, who June 6, 1867, attempted TO as
sassinate the late Gar of Russia while be was
riding in Paris with the late Emperor Napole-
on"
1t CHANGED to have been my lot to have
| been a witness to some of the exciting scenes
which followed the attempt of this assassin
upon the life of the Gar. For week be-
| fore there had been gala days in Paris June
| l, 1867, the Autocrat of all the Russias had
made his entry into Paris. The Gar was to
remain nine days, and the scenes in Paris in
those days were to be a nine-days' wonder.
| Among the sights were the French Derby
| the grand review, balls, dinners, rides and
receptions.
There were no demonstrations of disap-
prova, save the few subdued cries as the
Gar was entering Paris, until one evening
| when he paid visit to the courthouse and
| la SANTA Chapelle. There, passing between
| the gowned lawyers drawn up in line, one OF
| the gowned men shouted to his very face,
| ''Vive la Pologne." On the boulevard, near
| the Hotel de Cluny, the Gar heard like jeers
| from the students, and some thirty arrests
were made. In the evening, as tine Gar was
+ entering the theater. there were many shouts
| of "Vive la Pologne," and numerous arrests
were made.
| These had been incidents of the six days
| which had passed from the time of the ar
rival of the Gar in Paris, June l, until June
| Z, the day of the attempted assassination. 1t
was Friday, and had been gala day in Paris.
| There had passed in review before the Third
| Napoleon and his royal guests, the Gar of
| Russia and the King of Prussia, with their
l. e =. ~ g l.
| French army The imperial cortege
| had started on its return journey through
the Bots de Boulogne. The Emperor of the
French and the Gar of Russia were seated
| upon the back seat of an open carriage with
| the two Princes of Russia on the front seat,
when suddenly, as they were passing the
| Cascade" a pistol-shot was heard from the
| closely oppressed ranks of the crowd along the
way-Berezowsk the Pole had missed his
] aim.
The lifting of the pistol had not been I'M
| observed An equery OF the Emperor, ever
on the watch, at the rear of the carriage had
| seen the mans uplifted arm, had spurred his
| horse between the wouldbe regicide and the
carriage, at the risk of his own life, and had
stricken down BerezowskiS hand with his
sword. Both barrels, through excess of zeal,
| had been fired at once, causing an explosion,
one bullet passing through the nostrils of
| the equerys horse while the other bullet,
|
stroke, had blown two fingers from the
left hand of Berezowski The assassin was
almost instantly in the arms of a policeman,
who was quickly aided by mounted police.
In the struggle the Pole was nearly stripped
naked, and was thrown into an ambulance,
torn and bleeding, the two fingers hanging
only by shreds of skin. Six police, with diff
fculty, extricated the assassin from the
crowd. He was taken to the famous prison,
| the Conciergerie, the clock on whose tower
had tolled out the signal of the massacre of
! ST. Bartholomew.
The would-be assassin was born in Poland,
and was revolutionist at sixteen. His
| family was reported to be in Siberia, and he
alone was left He had lived two years in
Paris and was employed in machine shops.
| He heard that the Gar was to come to Paris,
and determined that he should die by his
hand. Great efforts were made to discover a
conspiracy among the Poles, but none was
| found. Berezowski was condemned, and had
| doubtless been forgotten by many until the
memory of his desperate act was revived by
| this dispatch from Paris.