The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-09
THE ASSASSIN'S HAND.
Neither Cars, Kings, EmpeTOTS, Nor
Presidents Spared.

Rulers Beset With PeriIs-Noted
Murders and Attempted Murders
Since the Days of Edward the Mar
tyr Down to oarnot.
From the Richmond (Va) Dispatch.
The recent assassination of President
Carnot of the French republic has invited
attention to the large number of success
full and unsuccessful attempts on the lives
of rulers
The life of the head of nation is one
that is frequently beset by perils, as the
subjoined list will show, and the pages of
history are soiled by many a crimson
stain, representing the blood of a ruler.
The following are the most noted acts
of assassination or attempted murder of
rulers of nations which have taken place
since the days of Edward the Martyr:
96l-Edward the Martyr, King of Eng
land, while mounted and ready to go on
hunt, was stabbed from behind by an un-
known assassin and killed.
1271-Henry D'Allmaine, King of the
Romans and Earl of Cornwall, was foully
assassinated in Italy by his cousins.
1527-Edward II. of England was
killed in Berkeley Castle by Montravers
and Gournay.
l399-October- II. Of England
after being deposed, was confined in the
castle of Pomfret and slowly starved to
death. Another account says that Sir
Puts Exton and others of the guard fell
on him and dispatched him with their
! halDerds.
| 14l9-John. Duke of Burgundy, was
slain by Tamregina Chabl and others of
| the retinue of the dauphin.
l4l-May-Henry vi. of England was
| killed at the hands of the Duke of Glou-
cester, afterward Richard III.
| lS43-June-kdward ", of England,
! and his brother, the Duke of YORK, mere
| children, were suftocated while asleep in
| the Tower, by order of Richard Ill.
! 15S2-March 1Sth-William of Nassau,
| Prince of Orange, was shot but not killed
| by Juan Jamequoy, in the Palace of St.
! Michael The next year one Pietro Dor
! dogono attempted to assassinate the
| Prince of Orange. April of the following
| year Hans Hanzoon tried to kill the Prince
| of Orange by putting gunpowder under
his house in the city and underneath his
seat in church. On July 10, 1884, last
and successful attempt was made on the
| lifa of the Prince. He was shot at Deli
! by Belthazar Gerard a fauatical Cath
olic.
15S9-August- Henry III. of France
after having his brother, the Duke of
Guise, assassinated, was killed by Jacques
| Clement, a Dominican friar.
l61O-May 3-Henry ". of France was
stabbed to death by the poniard of the
fanatical Ravaillac.
1892 March l6-Gustavus Ill of
Sweden was shot at masked ball in the
theater at Stockholm. He survived thir-
teen days.
1709-Napoleon l. had several narrow
escapes from assassination.
NINETEENTH CENTURY.
1S01-The Emperor Paul of Russia was
strangled to death in his palace at ST.
| Petersburg.
lSl7-Jan 28-The Prince Regent of
England was fired at as he was driving to
the House of Lords to open parliament
He was not injured.
1S20-Feb. l3-The stabbing of the Due
de Berri, father of the Compile de Cham
bord, took place on the steps of the old
opera house, Paris
From 1880 to 1S4S-Louis Philippe
king of France, was fred at nineteen
times. -
lS35-Jan. Boa man named Lawrence
tried twice to shoot President jackson, in
Washington. The caps missed fire in
both instances President jackson was
also on another occasion assaulted by
Lewis Randolph.
1S40-June-Ed Oxford, a lad of
toria while she was out driving with
Prince Albert, and narrowly missed her
1S42-June-A man named Francis at
tempted the life of Queen Victoria. while
she was returning from church, but for
tunately the pistol missed fire The fol-
lowing month a deformed man named
Bean attempted to shoot Queen Victoria,
but failed.
1S4S-Nov. 26-The life of the Duke of
MOdena was attempted.
184S - June-The life of the Crown
Prince of Prussia (afteward Emperor
William) was attempted at Minden.
1S5l-May % Sefalogue, workman,
shot at Frederick William w., King of
Prussia, and broke his forearm.
lS52-Septem Der PA cons piracy to
blow up Louis Napoleon at Marseilles
with an internal machine containing 800
proiectiles was frustrated by the police
! 1S53-E' ebruary 1.-THE Emperor Fran
els Joseph of Austria was stabbed in the
back by a Hungarian shoemaker named
Liberty.
ls53HApril 1s--An attempt on the life
of Victor Emmanuel, King Of Italy, was
made.
1853-June-As second attempt was made
on the life of Louis Napoleon while on his
way TO the Opera Comique.
1S54-March 20-Ferdinand. Charles
Ill, Duke of Parma, was stabbed by an
! unknown hand. Part OF the dagger re-
manned in the wound and the duke died
after twenty-three hours of terrible suf-
fering.
1S55-April 2s-Giovanni Pianeri, an
Italian, shot twice at the French emperor
in the Tuileires garden
1856-Apri l 18-Raymopd Fucutos was
arrested in the act of firing upon Isabella
Queen of spain
1856--Deeem Der S-F'erdinand H., King
of the two Sicilies, was attacked at a re-
view by one of his own soldiers, who
wounded him with u bayonet.
1S51-August THE Italian conspira-
tors Tfkaldi, Bartoletti and Grelli,
arrived in Paris with the intention of
numbering the emperor, but fell into the