The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-08-03
The Slayer of President CarnOt Relates
the Story of the Assassination
with Great BravadO.
PLOTTED THE CRIME ALONE
Presidents Glance Caused Him to
Miss Striking the Heart.
Questions by the Presiding Judge FIRE.
quently Caused Sensations Dur
ing the Testimony.

LYONS, Aug. 2.-Cesario Santo, the as
sass!n of President Carnot, was put on trial
In the Assize Court to-day. His removal
from the st. Paul prison tc the court was
without incident. NJ. Breuili2c. who presides
over the court, is the judge who drew much
criticism upon himself by c~ondemning the
bill for the suppression of anarchistic
crime. which was recently passed by the
Chambers. Addressing the jury at the OPEN
Ing Of the Assize. July q. NJ. Breuillac said
the following words: While the Chamber
of Deputies, acting upon the proposals of
the government, is endeavoring to relegate
the common law courts, certain crimes
which you were occasionally privileged to
be called upon to try, We, in this court, by
the aid of twelve honest and free citizens,
summoned from the bosom of the nation,
will punish the murderer of yesterday, and
endeavor according to the measure OF our
power to prevent the peril of tomorrow
The Palace Of Justice was to-day guarded
in the most thorough manner against pos
sible ebullitions Of anarchism. The regular
police guards were reinforced by an entire
battalion of infantry, and the vicinity of
the court had in consequence very much the
appearance OF a military cantonment. Sol
diers were stationed upon all approaches.
while a double Gordon of troops surrounds
the building itself. In addition, a company
of infantry is posted in the entrance hall,
and a platoon of cavalry surrounded the
prison van as 1t was driven, at a galiop.
from the prison of st. Paul to the court.
The. soldiers on duty about the Palace of
Justice are supplemented by every variety
Of police official, from the local gendarme
to the shrewdest detective officer from the
Paris prefecture. A large squad OF police
men in citizens dress had been specially
told off TO furnish the audience, every seat
usually available to the public being re-
served for the detectives. but at the last
when the doors were opened there
was a waiting crowd and In a
few minutes all the available space
Without there was brilliant sunshine and
within there was suffocating heat. The only
air moving was that from a hundred fans;
In the gallery were many ladies'. almost all
young and gayly dressed, furnishing strik-
Ing touches of color.
WHO CAN ATTEND THE TRIAL.
Besides Cesario Santo. no one not an
official of the assize police offices or SOL
dier will be permitted in or near the court.
excepting eighty specially selected news
paper men, and these, owing TO the post
ponement of the trial. made purposely by
the government to permit OF the enactment
of the anti-Anarchist law. find themselves
under strict control. For the first time
in the experience of many of them, their
s sSSGDy' anil mil t be edi wfsd by by the jqdge pre- 70
ports. The trial is expected to occupy the
whole of to-day and part of tomorrow.
prosecutor confirming himself to a forty,
minute address. Some. people who should
have come forward will not appear. doubt
less fearing reprisal, but twenty-elgnt
Indispensable witnesses have been called b.
the government, and they include all those
who remembered having spoken 10 c.
sario as he was journeying from Cette 10
Lyons; the owner of the limekiln where
Santo worked in 1898; the baker VINO en-
chief of the late Presidents military house
hold: NJ Riyaud, project of the depart
who sat in the rumble of the late Presi-
dents carriage and Dr. Gailleton. the
with NJ. Garnet when Cesarlo struck the
deadly blow. The evidence of Nj. Arti-
gaud, the gunsmith, OF whom Cesario
dramatic. severai times before he paid
for the weapon, Cesario tried TO see wheth-
er he could handle 1T properly, and several
rehearsed his idea of how he would stab
lis victim. Santo proposes. practically. to
ance of NJ: Dubreuill. a Lyons advocate of
considerable note In criminal trials. The
in French trials, will be supplied by the
instruments used in operating on the Pres
ident a drawing of the carriage in which
the President was seated, Santos dagger
and the liver OF the murdered President
preserved in alcohol. The prisoner. during
time for one regret only-that he ran away
after the deed. To himself his crime was
l~ustl1ed; creditable and even glorious. and
Nobody has sent the assassin any money
sisted on prison fare. The leather har-
ness st;ra WH1fh ,S was lmB9sed ho Sn 1ra1o IN lieu bi of
using fhA ne n ink and n9n6r CIynn1ia1 70
him. and with these he has whiled away
much of his time. His penmanship is
read many books of travel from the prison
library.
THE ASSASSIN ARRIVES.
The court opened at 9:15 a. m, and the
judge-presldent was no sooner seated than
he called on the gendarmes to bring in the
accused All the persons present held their
breath as the assassin OF President Carnot
was brought into court. The prisoner was
short, and looked somewhat scared as he
came in securely handcuffed TO a gendarme
on either side OF him and two other
gsndarmes bringing up the rear. Cesario,
as he marched 10 the dock. wore a some
what strange costume. His coat was Of
yellowish color, his vest and trousers were
greasy. he wore a white shirt with a
touchdown collar and a grey necktie. So
soon as he was in the dock his counsel.
NJ. Dubreuill and NJ. Degeneral, professor of
Italian at the Lyons business college. the
latter having been appointed interpreter,
and Cesario took his seat and the reading
OF the long indictment began.
Tn prisoner listened impasSively during
the reading of this document, which con-
tanned what was supposed to be a full ac-
count or the events before on the evening
OF the murder ms which was believed to
be a complete record OF Cesario's journey
from Italy, giving the name of nearly
everyone the prisoner spoke to, etc. while