The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-06-28

| four mounted gendarmes. The crowd
thinking now that the report of the
assassination was untrue and that the
president was in the carriage, shout
ed: "Vive Carnot," vive La Repub'
lica.n The carriage stopped M. Chau-
dey and NJ. Rivaud said in tremulou'
voices: 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. The landau pro
ceeded to the theatre where M. Ri
vaud and Chaudrey went to the presi'
dents box. AS soon as they were
seen the whole audience arose and,
amid profound silence, M. Rivaud
said, in voice broken with sobs;
"The president has just been assas'
mated" This announcement was re
ceived with a terrible explosion OF
fury, as the audience, when the first
report of the assassination was re-
ceived, had, though greatly excited,
generally discredited it, 1he theatre
resounded with shouts of "mort la
assassin" and cries for vengeance
upon him.
stored M. Rivaud continued: "ln the
Rue de la Republique, miscreant,
under the pretext of presenting Il pc
tition, stabbed M. Carnot with dag
ger" M. Rivaud was again inter
rupted with shouts of "death To
the murderer! Revenge! Revenge!'
Waving his hands for silence M
Rivaud again spoke, saying: DO
not make my mission more painful.
We left M. Carnot in the hands OF
doctors. You understand that under
these conditions our hearts are tlled
with sorrow and that the proposed
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 vouchsafed them from. the
building, discussing among them
selves the horrible crime that they
considered had cast disgrace upon the
fair name Of their city.
After examining the presidents
wound all the physicians in attend
ance upon him agreed that an opera
tion was necessary, wbereupon DR..
Ollier Immediately probed the wound
While this was being done NJ. Carnot
came to his senses and said teebly out
distinct, chow you are hurting me L"
The doctors, however, continued 70
attend to the wound, the outward
bleeding of which had stopped. Ihey
knew that the presidents condition
was extremely delicate as they more
than suspected that internal hemOrr-
hage had commenced. After M. Car
not had been taken from his carriage
and placed upon bed in the pretec-
ture nobody but the doctors ana of1l-
GERS of his household who had accom-
panied him to Lyons were allowed to
enter the room to which he had oeen
carried.
Santo, the assassin, is a beardless
young man, 20 or 25 years old. When
arrested he was attired in brown suit
and wore 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 furtively around as though
he was seeking an opportunity TO es'
cape from his captors. 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 pro-
lection afforded him by the police he
would have been torn limb from limb
by the crowd, whose every action
showed that they were thirstiDg for
his blood.
When the police party reached the
Place dies Cordeliers they were obliged
to stop while the landau in which Mr.,
Boreas, the prefect, the mayor and
the wounded president, escorted by a
detachment of mounted guards on a
galIop, was driven rapidly past them
and returned to the prefecture. A
second carriage conveying the officers
of the presidents household followed
closely behind.
An Associated Press reporter en-.
tered third carriage, in which were
M. Burdeau, eX-minister OF hnance,
AID Senator Millaud. On arrival
at the prefecture, General
Borias, the prefect and the
mayor alighted. President Car
not 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 conspicuous y
displayed was covered on the left eide
Just over the heart by a large blood
stain that extended to the nip lt
was impossible to tell from his ap-
pearance whether he was dead or
alive. The crowd surged about in the
vicinity of the carriage, but the
mounted guard and foot police held
them in check some distance from the
landau, in which the presi-
dent was lying. Many were the
expressions of pity for toe
president and anger at his assassin.
General Borias, the project and the
mayor, assisted by number of at
tendants, lifted M. Csrnot from the
carriage and with difficulty carried
him as tenderly as possib to room
in the first floor of the prefecture and
laid him on a bed DIR. GailletoD,
who is mayor Of Lyons, then examined
the wound.
Santo, who spoke French badly.
when questioned by Prefeet Lepino at
the police station in Rue Moliere, said
he had lived at Celte, department OF