Connecticut western news., 1894-06-28

heard on every side, and the crowd in the vicinity of the carriage swelled to enor- nous proportions, every member of 1t seemingly intent upon killing the assassin. He was grasped by a dozen hands, and his life would have then and there paid the forfeit of his crime had it not been for sev- eral sergeants de vile who seized him and attempted to draw him away from hi~' captors. This was found to be impossible, ns the infuriated populacc were determined to lynch the man, and the efforts of the sergeants availed nothing beyond saving the man from instant death. Blows were aimed at his face and head over the shoul- ders of the police, who had by this time received re endorsements, and many of the blows landed fairly. At last the police succeeded in driving the bowling mob back a foot or so from their prisoner, but to get the captive through the crowd was a physical impossibility.
 In the meantime the news of the att tempted murder had spread with light ninglike rapidity, and mounted guards were sent to the aid of the policemen, who were still struggling to preserve the life of the assassin. With drawn sabers in their hands the guards rode down into the swirl ing crowd needless of whom their horses trampled upon. The crowd slowly gave
 
 ter of the mob was reached. Then a cor don was formed around the 10 almost ex- hausted policemen and their captive. and the march to the police station began. Even thus surrounded tho prisoner was not safe, for men in the crowd made fran tic efforts to reach him. The guards re- pelled these attacks with the flat sides of their swords, at the same time keeping watchful eyes upon the crowd to prevent the prisoner from being shot. Maledic- lions were hurled upon the captive, and never before had such wild indignation agase st a human being been seen in this city.
 An Operation Performed.
 When the police party reached the Place des Cordeliers, they were obliged to stop while the landau, in which were General Borius, the prefect, the mayor and the wounded president, escorted by detach- ment of mounted guards on a gallop, was driven rapidly past them en route to the prefecture. A second carriage, conveying the officers of tho presidents military household, followed close behind. On ar | rival at the prefecture General Borius, the prefect and the mayor alighted.
 President Carnot lay unconscious upon | the cushions of the carriage. His waist | coat was unbuttoned, and his shirt, on | which the bright red cordon of the Legion | of Honor was conspicuous, was covered | on the left side just over the heart by a large blood stain that extended to the hip. It was impossible to tell from his appear ance whether he was dead or alive. The | crowd surged about in the vicinity of | the carriage, but the mounted guards and the foot police held them in check some distance from the landau. General Bo- rius, the prefect and the mayor assisted by a number of attendants, lifted N. Car not from the carriage and carried him as | tenierly as possible to room on the first floor of the prefecture and laid him on a bed. Dr. Gailleton and the other physi- | clans then examined the wound. All agreed that an operation was necessary, | whereupon Dr. Oliicr probed the wound. | While th,s was bein. done M. Carnot came to his senses and said feebly, but dis | tinctly, ''How you are hurting mel''
 Tho doctors, however, continued to at tend the wound, the outward bleeding of which had stopped They knew, though, that the president 5 condition was extreme ly grave, as they more than suspected that l intarnal helnurrhaRe had cnmmencsd. The