The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-08-02
CESARIOS TRIAL.
Wonderfully Calm. the Slayer Of
President CarnOt.
Answers the Questions of the
Judge With Goodness.
A GREAT CROWD
Assemblies in the Court Room
to Hear the Trial.
Newspaper Mems Copy" Culled
by the Judge,
Wr-Io D~ourr,,oc n RIun PANEL
A GREAT CROWD
Who Presumes to Blue Pencil
What He Wishes Suppressed.

LYoxs. Aug. 2.-Cesario Santo, the as
sassin Of President Carnot, was put on
trial in the assize court today. His re-
moval from the ST. Paul prison to the
court was without incident. NJ. Breuillac,
who presides over the court, is the judge
who drew much criticism upon himself
by condemning the bill for the suppress
sion of anarchistic crime which was re-
gently passed by the chambe
Addressing the jury at the opening of
the assize July %, NJ. Breuillac used the
following words: while the chamber
of deputies, acting upon the proposals of
the government is endeavOring to rele-
gate to the common law courts certain
crimes which you were occasionally priv
LEGGED to be called upon to try, we, in
this court BY the aid of twelve honest
aud free citizens summoned from the
bosom Of the nation, will punish the MUIR
derer of Yesterday and endeaver. accord
ing to the measure of our power, TO pre-
vent the peril Of tomorrow
The palace of Justice was to-day
guarded in the most thorough manner
against possible anarchism. The regu-
lar police guards were reinforced by an
entire battalion Of infantry, and the
vicinity of the court had in consequen CO
very much the appearance of a military
ali approaches, while a double Gordon of
troops surrounded the building itself
In addition a company Of Infantry is
posted IN the entrance halls and a pla-
tOon Of cavalry surrounded the prison
van as it was driven at a gallop from the
prison of st Paul TO the court house.
The soldiers on duty about the palace
of justice are supplemented by every
variety of police officials, from tine local
gen d. armes to the shrewdest detective
officer from the Paris prefecture.
A Large Audience Present.
A large squad of policemen in citi-
zen's dress had been specially told off to
furnish The audience, every seat usually
available to the public being reserved
for the detectives, but at the very
last moment the programme was
changed, and when the doors
were opened a waiting crowd was allowed
in and in a few minutes all the available
space within the court room was densely
packed Without there was brilliant
sunshine and within there was suffocat-
ing heat The only air moving that
from a hundred fans. In the gallery
were many ladies, almost all young and
gaily dressed. furnished striking touches
Of color
There were eighty specially selected
newspaper men, and these, owing to the
pOsipOnement of the trial made puspose-
~ by the government to permit of the
themselves under strict control For the
first time in the experience of many of
them their copy" will be edited by the
Judge presiding and they will be directed
as TO what they are not to put in their re-
ports
The trial il expected to occupy the
whole Of today and part of tomorrow
There viii be no long speeches, the pub
lie. prosecutor confining himself TO a
forty minute address. Some people who
should have come forward Will not ap-
pear, doubtless fearing reprisals, but
twenty eight Indispensable witnesses
have been called by the government and
they include all those who remem bered
having spoken to CesariO as he was
lOurneying from .Cette TO Lyons; the
owner Of the lime kiln. where Cesario
worked in 1898; the baker who EN- ployed
him at Cette; General Boriss. the chief
Of the late presidents military house
hold; NJ RivAud, prefect of the depart
ment of the Rhine; the two men ser
wants who sat on the rumble of the late
presidents carriage and DIR. Gailleton,
the mayor Of Lyons, who rode in the
carriage with Nj. Carnot when Cesario
struck the deadly blow.
Dramatic Evidence Expected.
The evidence OF NJ. Artigaud, the gun
smith, Of whom Cesario bought the dag
ger, is expected to be very dramatic.
Several times before he paid for the
weapon Cessrio tried to see whether he
could handle it properly, and several
times, before the gunsmith, the assassin
rehearsed his idea of how he would stab
his victim.
Santo proposes, practically, to defend
himself but will have the assistance OF
NJ. Dubreuil. Lyons advocate Of con
siderable note in criminal trials.
The touch of the gruesome, always
noteworthy IN French trials will be sup
piled by the Instruments used in operat-
ing on the president. drawing from the
carriage in which the president was sit
ting when stabbed, Cesario's dagger and
the liver OF the murdered president pre-
served in alcohol.
The prisoner, during his life in the St
Paul prison, has found time for one re-
gret only-that he ran away after the
deed To himself his crime Is justified
creditable, even glorious, and be has
been anxious 10 be tried quickly.
Nobody has sent the assassin any mon
ey since he was arrested, and he has sub
sisted on prison fare The leather har-
ness which was imposed upon him il
lieu Of straight jacket, has not prevent
ed him using the pen. ink and paper sup
Pared to him, and with these he has
wnAed away the time. His penmanshiE
i tairs but indicative Of vulgarity. Ht