Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1894-06-29
THE FRENCH PRESIDENT ASSASSI-
MATED.
HE IS STABBED IN 4 CARRIAGE
BY AN ANARCHIST.

President Carnot was stabbed to the heart
while riding in his carriage in Lyons, France,
shortly after O'Clock last Sunday night, by
Cesare Giovanni Santo, an Italian, and died
in few hours. The President was visiting
Lyons in connection with the International
Exhibition. Upon his arrival there he was
rendered a reception at the Prefecture after
which he visited the exhibition. After spend
ing some time there he proceeded to the Pa
lais de Commerce to attend banquet,
At 925 O'Clock the President started for the
theatre to attend performance to be given in
his honor, Several carriages were in the pro-
cesson. M. Carnot's carriage was driven
slowly, and when half way down the street,
which was lined with enthusiastic crowds Of
people, a man rushed out of the crowd and
sprang upon the step of the Presidents Ian
dau. Just at this moment NJ. Carnot was
waving his right hand, and saluting with his
hat in his left hand in response to the ovation.
The people close to the carriage saw that the
man standing on the step had knife in his
hand. They saw the bright blade CLEAN as
the assassin's arm descended, and then Pres
ident Carnot was seen to fall back in his seat,
his face deathly pale. One of his hands was
pressed oyer his heart where the steel had en-
tered the body.
NJ. Rivaud, project of Lyons, who was seat
ed beside M. Carnot, i'm mediately struck the
assassin blow in the face and knocked him
from the step.
Instantly cries of Lynch the assassin !
were heard on every side, and the crowd in the
vicinity of the carriage swelled to enormous
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hands, and his life would have then and there
paid the forfeit of his crime had it not been
for the police who seized him and attempted
to draw him away. Blows were aimed at his
face and head over the shoulders of the DO
lice, and many Of the blows landed fairly.
At last the police succeeded in driving the
crowd from the prisoner, but to get the cap
tive through the crowd was a physical impos-
sibility. The news of the attempted murder
had spread with lightning-li like rapidity, and
mounted guards were sent to the aid of the
policemen. With drawn sabers they rode into
the crowd, needless Of whom their horses
tramped upon. The crowd gave way before
the horses, and at last Gordon was formed
around the ten almost exhausted policemen
and their captive and marched to the police
station. In the meantime the President had
been conveyed to the Prefecture. A careful
examination was made of the wound and the
doctors declared that the cond ition of M. Car
not was hopeless,
Shortly after midnight the Archbishop of
Lyons was summoned to the bedside of the
dying President, to administer to him the last
rites of the church.
M. Carnot remained conscious to the last.
He realized that his life was rapidly ebbing
DR.. Ponent leaned over the bed on which the
President was lying, and said to him: 'Your
friends are here, Monsieur lie President
NJ, Qarnot replied II am grateful for
their presence and, in less than minute
he gasped for breath, there was a convulsive
shuddering of hi S body, and the President of
France was dead. The wound received by M.
Carnot was in the upper liver, which was
pierced through and through. He died at for
ty three minutes past midnight.
When it became generally known that the
was an Italian, the feeling of indig-
nation among the crowd found vent in the
form of attacks upon cafes kept by inoffen-
sive natives of Italy. Three such places were
totally wrecked by the infuriatpd mob. The
crowd, with cries Of sDown with the foreign
ers !" "Out with them !' marched to the Ital-
ian consulate, which would no doubt have
been sacked had it not been for the prompt