The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-06-29
DIsEMBOwELED HIMSELF.
Suicide of an Alleged Accomplish OF
Assassin SantO.

PARIS, June ga dispatcn from Mont
peller, capital OF the department OF Her.
ault. announces an Anarchist tragedy
growing out OF the efforts of the police TO
discover the accomplices Of Cesaro Santo
the assassin OF President Carnot. Cete
and Montpelier, both in the same depart
ment. have been mentioned as places where
The murderer stopped previous to making
his way TO Lyons with the intention OF
taking the life Of the chief magistrate of
France. Consequently both these towns
have been scourged by detectives since
Monday morning. Santo has from the first
claimed that he acted entirely on his own
initiative. and that he had no accomplices.
The police soon formed a different opinion,
and believed that he followed out a care
fully laid plan, receiving Instructions and
advices at the different towns he visited.
The detectives who have been at work in
Montpelier decided to surround and search
the house of a man namcd Granier, sup
posed to be an Anarchist and a possible
accomplish of Santo. Granier ii appears,
during last Sunday afternoon, previous 10
the attack upon President Carnot. was
heard to remark: by this time Carnot
will have received his quetus." AS the
President was not stabbed till late the
same evening Ii was naturally concluded
when the news OF the tragedy became pub
lie. and when IL was shown that Santo
had visited Montpelier that Granier must
have known that an attempt was to be
made upon the life of the President. When
Granier's house was surrounded the de-
tcctives burst irs the door and summoned
the Anarchist TO surrender. Granier who
was seated at a table eating his supper.
motionless with surprise. Then. with sur
prising swiftness, and before the detectives
could secure him, he picked up a long and
sharp knife and plunged ii into his alb
10mpn a
wrist disemboweled himself and fell to
the floor, where he expired almost immedi-
atey.
The police then commenced a thorough
search of Granier's lodgings. and. according
10 report. quantity of anarchistic litera-
ture was discovered together with docu-
ments which connect Santo with Granier
and with others in the conspiracy which
resulted i'm the murder of President Car
not. In any case the police authorities adj
nit that they have established beyond
doubt that Santo. Granier and the man
ramcd Laborie. who was arrested on Mon
day. and others not yet In custody plotted
the death of President Carnot in order to
avenge the execution of Ravachol, Valiant
and Henry. all of whom before dying an
nourced that their deaths would be
avenged. This. of course. was looked upon
as mere Anarchist clustering at the time
the threats were uttered The polie ex
Santo will be tried, as already announced
on July q, at Lyons. but the charge
murder Article XIII of the penal code de-
crees that an attempt against the head of
the State is to be so described and pun
ishsd. When Santo shall have been con-
demned 10 death and the hour of his exc
cution has arrived he will be conducted 10
the place OF execution in his shirt, bare
footed, and with his head covered by a
black veil. The condemned man will stand
on the scaffold while an officer OF the law
addresses the people and refers to the enor-
nifty of the crime committed. Santo Will
then be decapitated by the guillotine.
About thousand Italians who fed from
France after the ASA ssination of President
Carnot because they were. afraid they would
be prosecuted on account of the crime of
their countryman, are camping in the open
fields in the vicinity of this city. Most of
them are without means and are suffering
many hardShipS