River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-06-28


young man of 20 or % years old. When
and wore peaked cap that matched
the suit in color. As he marched, I'M
der his police guard, from the
Rue de la Republique to the
station, he held his head down,
but his eyes glanced furtively
around as though he was seeking an
opportunity to oscape from his cap
tors. To have made such an attempt,
however, would have been the height
Of foolhardiness unless he desired 70
commit suicide, for there is not the
slightest doubt that had he got away
from the protection of the police he
would have been torn limb from
! limb by the crowd, whose every action
showed that they were thirsting for
his blood.
When the police party reached the
Place des Cordeliers they were obliged
to stop, while the landau in which
were Gen. Borius, u e project, the
mayor and the wounded president, es-
corted by detachment of mounted
guards on a gallop, was driven rap
idly past them en- route to the pre-
lecture. A second carriage conveying
the officers of the president military
household followed close behind. An
Associated Press reporter entered a
| third carriage, in which were NJ. Bur
deau, ex-minister of finance, and Sen
ator Millaud. On arrival at the pre-
lecture Gen. Borius, the protect, and
the mayor alighted.
The Wounded Mans Removal.
President Carnot lay motionless and
unconscious upon the cushions of the
carriage. His eyes were closed. His
waisteoat was unbuttoned and his
shirt, ON which the bright red Gordon
of the Legion of Honor was conspicu-
GUS, was covered on the left side, just
over the heart, by large blood stain,
which extended to the hip. 1t was i'm
possible to tell from his appearance
whether he was dead or alive.
The crowd surged about in the vicin-
| ity of the carriage, but mounted guards
and foot police held them in check
some distance from the landau in
which the president was lying. Many
were the expressions of pity for the
president and anger at his assassin.
Gen. Borius, the project, and the
mayor, assisted by a number of attend
ants, lifted NJ. Carnot from the car
riage and with difficulty carried him
as tenderly as possible to "a room on
| the first floor of the prefecture and laid
| him ON bed. DR. Gailleton, who is
mayor of Lyons, then examined the
| wound.
Died Soon After Midnight.
President Carnot died at 12:45 o'clock
this morning. Shortly after midnight
the archbishop of Lyons was sum-
mOned to the bedside of the dying pres
| ident to administer to him the last
rites of the church. lie was in the
room but a short time when he emerged
and retired to an adjoining room.
Here he remained until 1880, when he
was again summoned to the president S
room, where he administered to him
the sacrament.
| Nj. Carnot remained conscious to the
| last. He realized that his life was
rapidly ebbing away and twice he said;
''Je men vais." Dir. Ponce leaned over
the bed on which the president was
| lying and said to him: "Your friends are
here, monsieur lie president. Nj. Carnot
replied: 81 am grateful for their pres
ence," and in less than minute he
| gasped for breath. there was convul-
sive shuddering of his body and the
president of France was dead. lmme-
diately after the death OF NJ. Carnot
| Prime Minister Dupuy started on his
return to Paris to officially announce
| the news to the senate and the cham
Der of deputies.
The bed on which NJ. Carnot died
was of iron. 1t was placed between
| two windows of the palace. At its foot
was the bed OF honor which had been
reserved for the president. The m
cision made by the doctors In order TO
stop the internal hemorrhage meas
ured about 3 inches long by 2 inches
wide.
Murderer VIII Not Tell His Motive.
Santo, who speaks French badly,
when questioned by Project Lepin at
the police station in Rue Moliere, said
he had lived at Cette, department of
Herault for the past six months, and
had only come to Lyons Sunday.
| lie gave his age as % years. His
replies were given coolly, but without
any sign of bravado. lie refused, how
/ ever, to answer any OF the
many questions put to him regarding
| his motive for stabbing the president,
declaring that on this subject he
would speak only before a tribunal.
When he vas searched by the police
book was found in one of his pockets
in which it was written that he had
been horn in village in the province
of Milan, Italy.
Mobbed ths Italians.
After NJ. Carnot had been taken to
the prefecture it became generally
known that his assassin was an Italian
and the feeling of deep Indignation
among the crowd found vent in the
form of attacks upon cafes kept by IL
offensive natives of Italy. Three
such places in the vicinity OF the pal
ace of commerce were totally wrecked
by the infatuated mob French flags,
which were in abundance, were then
/ procured by the crowd. and with cries
of Down with the foreigners, out
with them" hundreds of men and boys
marched to the Rue de la Barre. in
which street the Italian consulate Is
situated. There IS no doubt that the
consulate would have been sacked had
il not been for the prompt action OF
the police. who stopped the crowd and
compelled its members to dispense
All over the city threats are made 70
take summary vengeance upon the
eountrymen of Santo, and the authori-
ties, fearing that attempts viii DC
made to put these threats into effect