Warren sheaf., 1894-06-28

assassination was untrue and that the
president was in the carriage shouted:
..Vive Carnot," ''Vive la Republiuue. y
Cheers Turned to Curses.
The carriage was stopped and M.
Chaudy and M. Rivaud, in tremulous
voices, said: Don't shout; the presi-
dent has been the victim Of an out
rage"
The cheers were instantly turned to
curses, and many and loud were the
cries for vengeance.
The landau proceeded to the thea
ter, where Rivaud and, M. Chaudy went
to the presidents box. AS soon as
they were seen the whole audience
arose and amid profound silence NJ.
Rivaud said, in a voice broken with
sobs: ''The president has just been
assassinat ted"
"Death to the Assassin
This announcement was received
with terrible explosion of fury as the
audience on the first report of the as
sassination had, though greatly ex-
cited, generally discredited it. The
theater resounded with shouts of "A
mort Ia assassin" and cries for ven
gence upon him.
When silence was in measure re-
stored M. Rivaud continued:
''In the Rue de la Republique a mis-
creant, under the pretext of present.
ing petition, stabbed M. Carnot with
a dagger"
NJ. Rivaud was again interrupted
with shouts of death to the murder
er!'' "Revenge!' 'Revenge!'
Waving his hand for silence M. Ri
vaud again Spoke, saying:
s'Do not make my mission more pain
full. We left M. Carnot in the hands
of doctors. You understand that un-
der these conditions our hearts are
filled with sorrow, and that the pro-
posed performance in the presidents
honor cannot take place..
The audience then left the building,
many of them proceeding at once to
the prefecture, where they stood in
the streets waiting for any report that
might be given out and discussing the
crime that they considered had cast
disgrace upon the fair fame of their
city.
The assassin is an Italian named
Cesare Giovanni Santo.
Work of the Doctors.
After examining the presidents
wound all the physicians in attenance
upon him agreed that the operation
was necessary, whereupon DR.. Ollier
Immediately probed the wound. While
this was being done M. Carnot came to
his senses. and said feebly but distinct
ly: ''How you are hurting'me. The
doctors, however, continued to attend
the wound, the outward bleeding of
which had stopped. They knew though
that the presidents condition was ex-
tremely grave, asthey more than sus-
pected that internal hemorrhage had
commenced. After M. Carnot had been
taken from his carriage and placed
upon a bed in the prefecture nobody
but doctors and the officers Of his mill
tary household who had accompanied
him to Lyons We're allowed to enter
the room to which he had been carried.
The Assassin q Beardless Youth.
Santo, the assassin, is q beardless
young man of 20 or rs years old. When
arrested he was attired in brown suit
and wore a peaked cap that matched
the suit in color. AS he marched, un-
der his police guard, from the
Rue de la Republique to the
station, he held his head down,
but his eyes glanced furtively
around as though he was seeking an
opportunity to escape from his cap
tors. To have made such an attempt,
however, would have been the height
of foolhardiness unless he desired to
commit suicide, for there is not the
slightest doubt that had he got away
from the protection of the police he
would have been torn limb from
limb by the crowd, whose every action
showed that they were thirsting for
his blood.
When the police party reached the
Place des Cordeliers they were Obliged
to stop, while the landau in which
were Gen. Borius, the prefect, the
mayor and the wounded president, es-
corted by a detachment of mounted
guards on gallop, was driven rap
idly past them en- route to the pre-
lecture. A second carriage conveying
the officers of the presidents military
household followed close behind An
Associated Press reporter entered a
third carriage, in which were NJ. Bur-
deau, ex-minister of finance, and SEN
o<o I'd o. ho
lecture Gen. Borius, the protect, and
the mayor alighted.
The Wounded Mans Removal.
President Carnot lay motionless and
unconscious upon the cushions of the
carriage. His eyes were closed. His
waistcoat was unbuttoned and his
shirt, on which the bright red Gordon
of the Legion of Honor was conspicu-
Gus, was covered on the left side, just
over the heart, by a large blood stain,
which extended to the hip. 1t was i'm
possible to tell from his appearance
whether he was dead or alive.
The crowd surged about in the vicin-
ity of the carriage, but mounted guards
and foot police held them in check
some distance from the landau in
which the president was lying. Many
were the expressions of pity for the
president and anger at his assassin.
Gen. Borius, the prefect, and the
mayor, assisted by number of attend
ants, lifted NJ. Carnot from the car
riage and with difficulty carried him
as tenderly as possible to a room on
the first floor of the prefecture and laid
him on bed. DR.. Gailleton, who is
mayor of Lyons, then examined the
wound.
Died Soon After Midnight.
President Carnot died at 12:45 o'clock
this morning. Shortly after midnight
the archbishop Of Lyons was sum
moned to the bedside Of the dying pres
ident to administer to him the last