Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-06-25
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the carriage when the attack was made
upon him BY Santo, and had partaken
(sf reffeshmenis 1t the Chamber of Com.
merce was the procession which had es.
corted him from the exhibition, and Lad
been reformed in the Place Des Cofdeliers
/ and had started for the Grand theatre, y here
q gala performance had been arranged in
his honor.
The caYrisge had hardly more than stated
along the Rue de Ia Repubique, amid the
and Carnot was acknowledging the enthus.
iaatic greeting of the people in front OF the
Credit Lyonais, when man suddenly ran
forw ard to the carriage, jumped to the step
and stabbed the President to the heart with
q dagger, which he had concealed under his
coat.
An cutlery was raised at once. Hun
dreds shouted that an attempt upon tine
Presidents life had been made and the
crowd seemed to 60 mad with excitement.
Meanwhile the assassin had been felled
to the ground with blow by M. Rivaud,
project of the Rhone. He was surrounded
by an angry crowd. and cries of Lynch
him" were heard on sill sides. Only with
the greatest difficulty were the police able
to protect him from the fury of the people.
Had rot a company of mounted guards
surrounded and protected the police on the
way to the station, the prisoner would have
been taken from them and beaten to death.
At ll.30 the surgeons issued this bulletin :
1.-THE Presidents condition is alarming, but
not hopeless. The wound is in the region
Of the liver. The hemorrhage which at
first was very copious has now ceased" A
little more than an hour later the President
was dead.
Ats last night all invited to attend gala
performance 10 the Presidents honor, had
gathered in the Grand theater. Every seat
outside the boxes was filled. The audience
waited impatiently the arrival of the
Presidential party. Suddenly two
men ran up to the main
entrance and called out that the President
had been killed. The news spread swiftly
to the rear seats of the theatre and then
passed like wind over the great audience.
great majority of those present refused to
believe the intelligence. ..--. ID.
Several government officials were present
and left the theatre Immediately to obtain
more information. 1t appeared as if all
Lyons was at that moment assembled in
the Place de la Console and adjacent
streets. The multitude was packed to-
gether like a wall. Suddenly landau,
preceded by four mounted gendames,
dashed out of the Rue de la Republique.
In it were Adrien Dupuy, Deputy Chaudey
and M. Rvaud, the project. The crowd,
mistaking the landau for the Presidents
carriage, cried "Vive Carnot! Vive la Re-
publique"
Chaudey on the right, and Rivaud on the
left called from the carriage in tones full of
emotion: "Do not shout. An attempt has
just been made upon the life of the Presi-
dent" The words had an immediate effect
upon the crowd. On every side express
sions of execration and vengeance filled
the air. The landau was driven to the
Grand theatre.
Arriving there M. M. Rivaud and Chau
dey proceed to the Presidents box, and see-
ing them enter the audience rose from their
seats in body. M. Rivaud advanced to
the front of the box and said
in a voice broken with sobs: "The
President of the republic has been
assassinated." The announcement caused
the greatest horror among the audience,
and cries of "a mort "A mort" and
vengeance were heard in all parts of
the building
M. Rivaud, continuing, said that in the
Rue de la Republique a wretch who ap-
preached M. Carnot under pretext of pre-
senting a petition, struck the President
with dagger. Here M. Rivaud was again
interrupted with shouts of Indignation and
WAS heard with difficulty when he
added "Do rot make my task more
p,inful. We left NJ. Carnot in the
hands of doctors. You will understand
that under the circumstances, all hearts be-
ing filed with sorrow, the performance can
not take place" The project then left the
theatre.
Immediately after the President was
stabbed, the horses attached to his carriage
were started at a gallop for the prefecture.
The President lay limp in the carriage.
His eyes were closed, as he was apparently
lifeless. His clothes had been loosened, so
that the red sash of the Legion of Honor
was displayed. On the left side near the
waist a red spot told the whole story of
the wound. He was lifted with the greatest
care from the carriage and was carried to
his room on the first floor. There he was
laid on a bed in which he had slept the
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the city, examined the wound.
The young assassin's full name was given
by him at the police station as Cezare
Giovanni Santo. He is nearly 90 years old,
has very small moustache, and wore
light brown suit with peaked cap of the
same color. On the way to the station he
held his head down and glanced continually
right and left as if looking for some posi-
BILE means of escape.
Upon being interrogated he gave his
name, but professed to know too little of
the language to say much more. His in
ability to speak much French is rather pc
culiar as he has lived at Cette for the LIST
six months and is believed to have lived
considerable longer in the country. He
went from Cette to Lyons, yesterday morn.
ing.
Marie Francois Sadi-Csrnot was horn at
Limoges. France. Aug. IL, 1887. His
father, Hippolyte Carnot, was life sena-
tyr of the republic. He studied at the
Poly technic school and afterward at the