The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-01
BY CLINTON ROSS.

lOE paper, Out some III AuleIICd pS-
lieved it not Was there an equal for
General Washington? Did we not
cringe a bit to rank when a French
marquis-albeit tall, red-haired boy
came among us? A title caught, even
then. many a good appointment and
doubt much sometimes if Alexander, of
New Jersey, would have been so much
esteemed if he had not had claim to
The Scottish earldom of Stirling. | am
sure many efficient foreign adventures
had service with us because they had
titles. Two of these gentlemen proved
conclusively great natural abilities;
one, of course, Marquis Lafayette,
who a boy OF 20 came so cleverly out
OF the affai.. of Barren Hill; and the
other Casim;s Pulaski, the Pole whom
/ saw fall with a wound in the thigh
during the charge On Savannah. TAX
en- on the brig Wasp, he died as she
was putting to Sea-esteemed a good
friend, a gallant captain.
1t was only the night before that he
told me the truth of that affair at
Warsaw which led to his service IN
America. He was not, the Count Pu-
1aslxi assured me, himself a partner IN
this matter, although ne was indeed a
member of that confederation of Bar,
eworn to fight for Polish freedom to
the very end. But circumStantial evil
dence led to his Punishment, as 1t had
TO that of SO many others. Despairing
of Poland, and eager for a career, he
came TO America.
Yet, although my friend himself was
not in this affair, the story he told of it
appears to me now. The picture Of
the king and the assassin walking side
by side and reasoning together on the
rainy night in the wood of Bilany, has
had more than passing effect. The
story proves that our revolt against
king was not the first. All, history is
full of these DISTINGUISHING John,
Charles Stuart, Stanislaus of Poland,
Louis XVI, George III by proxy in
America-and many another account
Now, this is the account of the affair
as [ remember it, that began in the
street of the Capuchins, Warsaw.
The king had been to his summer
palace that day Of September 3, 1771
and his coach was returning along the
street of the CapuchinS. How it was 8
o'clock Of a rainy night as the leader
of the kings guard Of some seventeen
dragons was astounded when sudden
~ a man leaped before his horse with
the loud command Halt" The lieu
tenant struggled to bring his sabre
down on the fellows head. His horse
sareened, stopping indeed the whole
company and the coach, whence the
kings head suddenly projected.
At that moment q shot, from a win
dow of a supposedly deserted house,
grazed the kings face, instantly kill
ing the servant who was with him in
the coach.
THE king is assassinatedr" The cry
was raised from guards and passers-
by. "His majesty is deadn'
Stanislaus, who ever was considerate
of his interiors, shouted at this:
TT is Felix, the heyduc. who is shot.
Quick, catch the ASA ssin."
Suddenly down the street came the
4 sounds Of horses, and cries: Down
with Stanislaus, the creature of the
Russians"
At the same instant men rushed out
of the house whence the shot into the
coach had come, swearing, shouting
and firing. One of the kings guards
cried;
"a plot, An ambush There are a
thousandr'
Instantly the panic became general.
The lieutenant Of the guards who had
succeeded in running through the fell
low Il his bride rein, now found him
self confronted by the horsemen. Turn
ing, he led the flight, and the king was
left almost alone in his coach, hugging
the dead body of his poor servant and
obliviOus to everything else. The
horses on the coach, rearing and plung-
ing, required all the attention of the
positions, who themselves were fright
ened out of whatever wit they
may have had.
BY this time the leader of the attack
ing horsemen was dismounted by the
coach door.
"Out, stanislausr' he cried; you are
10 come with me-
The king, perceiving this to be
Count Kolinski, cried out to him:
"Kolinski, traitor, am your hng."
For an instant Kolinski hesitated.
The sight of the king, placed as he
was with the dead servant in his
srms-and yet, still the king with that
dignity Stanislaus always possessed
that scene shown dimly by the lantern
of the coach, shook for a moment the
cOnspirator's resolution.
But the others were behind him, des-
perate and knowing that if the issue
of the adventure We're not successful
death was certain.
Pull him out"
Then Stanisaus looked up from the
dead heyduc in his lap, the dark, hand
some man he always was, now with nc
fear. but with a mastering anger al
the indignity:
You shall hang for this"
Al, they knew the danger too we'll
They could not hesitate, if pity for "a
moment had weakened their purpose
Roughly they dragged the king from
the coach, he struggling and crying
and clinging to the dead and the sides
of the coach.
1 can imagine nothing more horrible
than that scene-the king now outside
in the mud. me dead body Of the ser
want dangling from the coach step, the
Positions struggling with their horses
the conspirators-some on foot an6
some mounted-surroundin the king
one bringing the fat Of a sabre agains
his head. the crowd of townspeoplt
who had suddenly gathered.
And then a cry went up:
1.-The guards are returning
Kolinski was on his horse now, anC
he caught the king, who, between the
struggle and horror at his dead ser.
want, was in a half dazed state An.
other seized Stanislaus other shoulder
The guardsr' rang out the CRY
again; 1.-The guardSr'
Kolinski dashed his horse draggine
the near lifeless king. On they tore
Kolinski again and again having t
slacken his horses speed. lest the kine
should be killed. So much more slowl,
was the progress made by those wht
were dragging the king, that the other.
now seized with panic ran as they
could; and when the bitches beyond tn,
city were reached, only seven remained
Here Kolinski paused uncertain abou
the path in the darkness, made dense
nv The rain. They We're outside III,
-aa5r n aaf -I-.x II.