The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1894-06-25


In the meantime physicians were hastily
summoned to attend the president, who
had almost Immediately been conveyed to
the prefecture. A careful examination
was made of the wound, and the doctors
declared that the condition of NJ. Carnot
was hopeless.
The receipt of the news of the assassina-
tion caused great sensation at the Grand
theater, which was filled to the walls by
the elite of Lyons. The theater presented
brilliant scene, the handsome toilettes
being offset by the gay uniforms of the
many military officers present All were
waiting with mpatience the arrival of the
president, and all were unable to under
stand the delay. Suddenly man entered
the theater, crying at the top of his voice,
'The president has been assassinatedr
Excitement at the Grand Theater.
The most intense excitement followed
this abrupt announcement. Women
screamed and several tainted. Many
men, without waiting to secure their hats,
ran out of the building to confirm the
news. They found all the streets leading
to tho palace filled with excited throngs,
and in few minutes they were convinced
that the report was true. Suddenly
through the throng sped a landau con-
veying Adrien Dupuy, brother of Prime
Minister Dupuy; Deputy Chaudey and
Prefeet Rivaud, the crowd falling away
before it, as it dashed into the Rue de la
Repubique, preceded by four mounted
gendarmes. The crowd, thinking now
TINT the report of the assassination was
untrue, and that the president was in the
carriage, shouted "Eive Carnoti" "Vive
Ia Republique!"
Tho rorriapn NyaS etonpel aud MINI
Chnudey and Rivaud, in tremulous voices,
said: Don't shout The president has
been the victim of an outrage
The cheers were instantly turned to
curses, and many and loud were the cries
for vengeance
Announcing tho Tragic News.
The landau proceeded to the theater,
where NM. Rivaud and Chaudey went to
the presidents box. As soon as they were
seen the whole audience rose, and amid
profound silence NJ. Riyaud said, in
, broken voice. with sobs: "Hhe president
has just been asSassinated."
This announcement was received with
terrible explosion of fury, rs the audi
ence when the first report OF the assas-
sination was received, had, though greatly
excited generally discrehited it, The
theater resounded with shouts OF "A mort
la assassin and cries for vengeance
upon him.
When silence was in a measure restored
| NJ Rivaud continued:
"ln the Rue dc la RepubliQue mis-.
creant, under preteXt of presenting re
tition, stabbed NJ. Carnot with dag,
| ger"
| NJ. Riyaud was again interrupted with
shouts OF Death to the murderer "Ie
vengel' "Reyenge'
| Waving his hand for silence NJ. Rivaud
again spoke, saying;
'Do not make my mission more pain.
! full, We left NJ. Garnet in the hands OF
! doctors. You understand that under
| these conditions our hearts are filled with
sorrow and that the proposed perform.
ancc in the presidents honor cannot take
! place"
The audience then left, many of them
/ proceeding at once to the prefecture
( where they stood i'll the streets waiting
for any report that might be vUuchsafed
them from the building and discussing
among themselves the horrible crime that
they considered had cast disgrace upon
/ the fair fame of their city.
| An official not" was issued this morning
I calling upon the senate and chamber Of
deputies to assemble in congress at Yer
sHillcs at o'clock Wednesday afternoon
fer the purpose of electing new prcsi
dent.
The Dying President.
! After examining the presidents wound
all the physicians in attendance upon him
agreed that an operation WAS necessary,
whereupon DIR. Ollier Immediately probed
the wound While this was being done
NJ. Garnet came to his senses, and said
fecbly, but distinctly, "How YOU are hurt
i ing me"
! The doctors, however, continued to at
tend the wound, the ont ward bleeding OF
! which had stopped They knew, though,
That the presidents condition was cW
tremely grave, as they more than sus.
pectcd that internal hemorrhages had
commenced.
After NJ. Carnot had been taken from
his carriage and placed upon bed in the
/ prefecture nobody but the doctors and the
officers Of his military household who had
accompanied him to Lyons were allowed
to enter the room to which he had been
carried.
Despite all that medical skill could do
the dying man sank rapidly, ard at l2:45
this morning he breathed his last. I'm.
mediately after the death of NJ, Carnot
| Prime Minister Dupuy started on his re-
turn TO Paris to officially announce the
news to the senate and the chamber of
deputies.
Shortly after midnight the archbishop
of Lyons was summoned to the bedside OF
/ the dying president to administer to him
the last rites of the church. NJ. Caruot
! remained conscious to the last. He real
lied that his life was rapidly ebbing and
! twice he said: "Je men yais" Il am GO
| ing away.
DIR. Ponce leaned over the bed on which
the president was lying, and said to him:
Your friends are here, Monsieur le Pres
ident. u
NJ. Carnot replied: 81 am grateful for
their presence" and in less than min
ute gasped for breath, there was a consul-
sive shuddering of his body, and the pres
dent of France was dead.
The Youthful Assassin.
Snnto, the assassin, is a beardless young
man, 90 or % years old. When arrested
he was attircd in n brown suit and wore
a peaked cap that matched the suit In
color AS he marched under his police
guard from the Rue de la Republique to
the station he held his head down, but his
eyes glanced fnriiyely around as though
I he was seeking an opportunity to escape
from his captor5. To have made such an
attempt, however, would have been the
height of foolhardiness, unless he desired
i to commit suicide, for there is not the
slightest doubt that had he got away from
the protection afforded him by the police
he would have been torn limb from limb.
Santo who speaks French badly, VIII,
questioned by Prefect Lepine al the police
station, said he had lived at Cette, depart-
ment of llerault, for the past six months,
and had only come to Lyons yesterday.
| He gave his age as 90 years. His replies
were given coel1y, but without any sign
Of bravado. lie refused, however, to an
swer any Of the many questions put to
him regarding his motive for stabbing
the president, declaring that on this sub
ject he would speak only before a tribu-
nal Mhen be Mas Snnrchel by the nnlica