Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-04
GANgETrA,s WOUND.
A Sensational Story Abaut "A Tnraged
Woman,

woman.
Il is very hard to get at the real truth
about Gambetta's land. At the Russian
embassy the hatter themselves on knowing
it. A secretary bribed, it would appear,
one of Gambetta's women servants, and
she told tale which was dramatic and
sensational, but which was, perhaps, also
false from beginning to end. Her story is
that SmYrniote lady, Jewess, who often
drives into the woods near Vile de Sonay
with the great orator. wanted very much
to see the jubilee representation of "Le
Roi s'Amuse." It was arranged that she
was to have place in the loge grillee or
grated box which ia, st first representa-
tions at the Franelis, usually occupied by
Gambetta. But when she was buoyed up
with expectation, and within halt an hour
OF starting for the tbeater, word was sent
her that she was not to come. Neverthe-
less she went, and found the Countess de
Beaumont, sister of L. Marchale Mac
Mahou, in the fauteuil she was to have oc-
cupied. No violent scene took place but
the disappointed lady vowed vengeance,
and took the earliest opportunity TO keep
| her oath. The truth would come out the
story is, if it had not been for a fear that
Nine. de Beaumont might find it disagree
able. This unats-ched countess has
| exercised a baleful i,f aae over the Gsra-
bsttist party. She is separated from Count
de Beaumont, to whom is given the entire
guardianship of two children born of the
marriage. French courts of justice very
rarely set aside maternal rights. Nine. de
Beaumont was the cause, In 1869, of a
duel between Prince Metterrich and the
Austrian ambassador to the Court of the
| Tuilsries. Size has since studied art under
Gustave Dore, and from being his pupil be-
came his tyrant. Her mother, the Count
ess of Castries, was brought TO ruin by her.
Nine. de Beaumont is vain and imperious.
| Her salon for three winters was an ante
chamber to the bourse.
| My belief is that Gambetta was on much
less intimate terms with her than she and
mob of Austro- Hungarian Jews con.
nected with the press made believe. As
he goes on the principle OF never contra
dieting anything, the lady and her Hebrew
following from the banks of the Danube
might assert fearlessly anything they liked.
Parvenus of the opportunist party who
have not republican souls were greatly
fattered at any attention she paid them,
and regularly attended her soirees. She is
a woman Of some artistic talent, vain, i'm
perious, and fstters herself upon having
originated an idea which will make its way
in France. 1t is for Gambetta to be to the
republic what Henry w. was to the Cal
whist party, in which he was brought up,
aud of which he became leader at the
age OF sixteen.
Nine. de Beaumont was certainly at the
Francais on the evening of November 22d.
| When was in the salon was informed of
her arrival by many persons who saw her
in the ground floor corridor. But she was
not visible to the general public. The
conclusion was therefore arrived at that
she must have been in a loge grillee. Now
there was only one box, the grated screen
of which was drawn up. She might, cer-
tainly, have looked in from place in the
cornice, but the probability of her having
done so is too slight to be seriously con-
| sideTed.
The whole Gambsttist party was thrown
| in a heap by the pistol-shot wound. They
| did not dare to stir step IN the Chamber
for a whole week. Hence the absolute calm
in French politics for more than ten DAYS.
| The outer public was not much affected by
the mishap. NJ. Rochefort and some of
the monarchical journals kept interest
alive by the circumstantial evidence in
favor of feminine vengeance which they
deduced from the wound. Great stress
was laid by them on the facts that
Gambetta is not awkward in handling
firearms, and that he is not left.hsnded.
Awkwardness is relative thing. Itshould
be remembered that Gambetta has only one
eye, and there are circumstances under
which he does not take right focus of OBJ.
jects before him. There is nothing incred-
ible in the statement that he was holding
the pistol in the left hand and trying with
the right to force the barrel into the breech
when the ball was discharged. Il Paris Cor.
respondence New York Tribune.