The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-06-26
SANTO AN ANARCHIST
President Carnot the Victim of a
Fiendish Conspiracy.
Evidence that the French Executive Was
Assassinated in Revenge for the
Deaths Of Valiant and Henry.
SANTOS SISTER SPEAKS
The Martyrs Remains Conveyed
from Lyons to Paris.
Post Mortem Examination Made and
Post MOrtem Examination Made and
Death Found to Have Been Directly
Due to Introperitoneal Hemorrhage.
STORIES OF EYEWITNESSES
The Stabbing of the President
and His Last Moments.
Action Of French Officials-Candidate
for the Presidency-ItaliaD Cafes and
Shops at Lyons Wrecked by MObs.

PARIS, June 25-President Carnot was
slain by an Anarchist and the crime was
one of revenge. The police to-day investi-
gated the career of Cesare Giovanni Santo,
the assassin. and are convinced that the
President was stabbed in re-
venge for the deaths of Vail
liant and Henry, who were recently
giillotined in this city for throwing bombs.
The inquiries of the police this afternoon
resulted in showing that Santo was born
at Motta Visconti, nearly west of Pavia,
in December, 1879 The prisoner is baker
by trade, and was tried in Milan in 1892
for breach of the peace. but he was ac-
quilted, owing to lack Of sufficient evil
dence against him Santo was known as
a dangerous Anarchist and delivered An
archst lectures of the widest character
before going to Switzerland last year. The
police are keeping strict watch over An
archists in all the cities of France, and II
is expected that several important arrests
will soon be made. There no longer seems to
be much doubt that the Presidents as
sassination was the result of an Anarchist
conspiracy TO avenge the deaths of Vail
liant and Henry. Twenty detectives have
gone to Cette, Department of Herault.
where Santc was recently domiciled. in
order to track down his supposed accom-
plices.
The police have obtained the following
facts in regard to the assassns move
nents previous TO the crime Santo missed
the train running direct to Lyons from
Cette on Saturday and had to go TO Mont
pellier. and from thence to Vienna. From
the latter place he was unable TO pay his
fare on the train to Lyons having only
6o centimes in his possession, and was
obliged TO walk thirty miles. He arrived
at Lyons the same afternoon. When the
policeman rescued the prisoner from the
mob after he had stabbed the President
his clothes were torn to s.,reds, and 1t was
found necessary to sew them together at
the police station.
1t was said to-day that Santo has boldly
asserted that he is an Anarchist. This is
the only statement obtained from the muir
de-er. but it is reported that the police
are convinced that the assassination OF
President Carnot is the result of a careful
IL planned conspiracy in which number
of people are concerned. The dispatching
of detectives from Paris TO Cette. from
which latter place Santo went to Lyons,
has caused CONSERVATION among the
anarchists there, and many Of them
around them fed the town. Late to-day
the police searched the lodgings of dozen
Anarchists at Cette, but SO far as known
found nothing to implcate them in Santos
crime Four arrests were made.
Signor c. Ressman, the Italian embas-
sador received this afternoon a dispatch
from Rome saying that the investigation
which the Italian authorities have made
into the identity of Santo, the assassin,
shows that he is not an Italian, but that
he comes from Ticcino. the southernmost
canton of Switzerland, where the large
majority of the inhabitants speak italian.
This statement, however. is not borne out
by other dispatches.
1t is now believed that the correct name
Of the assassin is Cesario Santo.
A Lifelong Anarchist.
MILAN, June 25.-An interview was had
to-day with the sister of Santo, the as
sassin Of President Carnot. She said that
from the time he was nineteen years old
her brother had been a frequent attend
ant at Anarchist gatherings. He was es-
pecially devoted in his attendance at meet
ings presided over by the prominent An
archist advocate Gori. with whom Santo
was quite infatuated. Unhappily, the sis
baker had left him ample leisure for this
purpose. The police were aware of Santos
anarchistic tendencies and upon one occa-
sion searched his lodgings and seized a
number of incendiary pamphlets. He was
not then arrested, but was warned that If
he persisted in the course he was pursuing
he would find himself i'm prison. His
mother and sister, fearful of what might
become of him, begged him to abandon
anarchism and devote himself to his trade
and harmless pleasures. The warnings OF
the police and the pleadings of his rela-
tives. however. had no effect. Santo ap-
peared to be infatuated with the idea of
spreading the Anarchist propaganda, and
the police kept a watchful eye upon him.
Three months later he was detected in
company with number of other Anarch-
lists distributing Anarchist literature among
the soldiers. For this offense he was ar
rested. tried, convicted and sentenced TO
five years Imprisonment He was youth
of resources. however. and after serving
part of his sentence he managed to
effect his escape from the prison
in which he was confined, and fed
TO Lugano. After this his family heard
nothing of him until six months ago, when
a letter was received from him announcing
that he was stlli seeking work his sister
said that when she heard the name Santo
mentioned in connection with the murder OF
President Carnot she felt certain that 1t
was that of her brother. The interviewer
suggested that Santo had drawn iols with
other Anarchists to determine who should
commit the deed. but the sister declared
that she knew nothing whatever as 10 why
her brother had murdered NJ. Carnot.
The proprietor or a bakery where Santo
had been employed for four years said he
knew little OF him outside OF the work he
did but he secuted the idea that Santo was