Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-06-28

following the facade Of the palais. When
halfway down the street, which was
lined with enthusiastic crowds of people
who were loudly cheering, q man rushed
out of the crowd and spraag upon the
step of the presidents landau.
Just at this NJ. Carnot was
waving his right hand and saluting with
his hat in his left hand in response 70
The ovation that had been given him by
the crowd. The people close TO the car
llage saw the man standing on the step
had 4 knife IN his hand. BY the glare
OF the electric lights they saw the bright
plade CLEAN in the air hs the assassin's
arm descended, AMI ;haI President Car.
not was seen to fall back in his seat, his
face deathly pale. One of his h; nds was
pressed over his heart where the steel
had entered the body.
NJ. Riyaud, project of Lyons, who was
seated beside NJ. Ctrnot. Immediately
stuck the assassin a blow full in the face
and knocked him from the step, thus pre-
venting the a from again sGabbing the
president, which it was his evident III
tentiOn to do.
Instantly cries of The president is as
~slssinated. Death to the assassin We're
heard on every side, and the crowd in the
vicinity of the carriage swelled 10 enorm-
Gus proportions, every member ct it seem-
ingly intent upon killing the assassin.
He was grasped by a dozen hands, and
his life would have then and there paid
the forfeit of his crime had it not been
for several sergeants dc vile, who seized
him and attempted TO draw him away
from his captOrS. This was found TO be
impossible, as the Infatuated %pUpulace
were determined to lynch the man, and
the efforts of the sergeants awaited moth
ing beyond saving the man from instant
death. Blows were aimed at his face
and head over the shoulders of the police,
who had by this time received reinforce.
ments, and many of the blows landed
fairly. At last the police succeeded in
driving the bowling mob back a foot or
so from their prisoner, but to get the
captive through the crowd was a physical
impossibility.
In the meantime the news of the at
tempted murder had spread with light
ning-like rapidity, and mounted guards
were sent to the aid of the police, who
were still struggling to preserve the life
of the assassin. With drawn sabres in
their hands the guards rode down into
the crowd, h~.e'less Of whoLl their horses
II, IMPLIED upon. The crowd gave way be-
fore the horses, and at last the center of
the mob was reached. Then a Gordon
was formed around the ten almost ex-
nausted policemen and their captive, and
the march to the police station began.
Even thus surrounded the prisoner was
not safe, for men in the crowd made
frantic efforts to reach him. The guards
.epelled these attacks with the fiat side
Of their swords, while at the same. time
keering watchful eyes upon the crowd
to prevent the prisoner from being shot.
Maledictions We're hurled upon the pris-
Cper, and never before was such a wild
irSignation against a human being seen
in this city.
In the meantime physicians were sum-
moned to attend the president, who had
almost Immediately been conveyed to the
prefecture. A careful examination was
made of the wound, and the doctors de-
clared that the condition If M. Garnet
was hopeless. He fingered until 12:45
this morning, when he died. He was
conscious until the last.
The assassin is an Italian named
Cesare Giovanni Santo. When questioned
by Project Lepin at the police station in
Rue Moliere, he said he had lived at
Cette, department of Herault, for the
past six months, and had only come TO
Lyons yesterday. He gave his age as
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