The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-24

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I isning about on that lonely highland road
Z in manner 10 alarm any one VINO hap
/ pened 10 be aware that her majesty was
70 grys pasl AeeoIl.ns-Ss ne az
I ger, and on ire litter responding. thereto
/ oy aiming the revolver al his face ne
/ grappled with him. and with the assist
/ ance OF young man who came up threw
the fellow 10 the ground and disarmed
him. Brought 10 the BalmOral lodge gate
ne was searched. and in MS pockets was
] found a letter addressed TO the queen, as
sailing her with the bitterest reprOaches,
/ ana also another document addressed 70
MI vanderbilt, whose daughter the writer
I expressed desire 10 marry
The six chambers Of the revolver were
| aH loaded, and in small satchel that he
udd Win him were Ltty additional cart
ridges. II was while he was being search
I ed al the Lodge that ner majesty passed
out through the gates. in happy lgnOr-
ance or the danger which she had so
narrowly escaped
The man was subsequently, discovered
70 be an escaped lunauc. afflicted with
homictdal mania. and was az once con-
signed 10 that great asylum prison for the
criminal insane .n Berkshire, Wnlcn Is
known as BroadmOor. Inere ne Wi
spend the remainder of his days, not by
virtue Of any commitment of a court or
law, but merely on the strength OF one
OF those survivals of the Old Lettres dc
Cachet OF Baslile days, which are known
as detention during her maJest rs pleas
ure- II is In this great asylum prison
that either have been incarcerated, or are
stlu detained. those ten or twelve people
who have made attempts on the lie OF
the queen, VINO has only on one instance
sustained personal injury, namely, Wnea
cashiered officer Of the crack Tenth
Hussars regiment struck her across the
face and shoulders with a rattan cane.
Since the incident at BalmOral last aC~
tumn, it has been decided 70 adopt the
same precautionary measures there as AT
W lndsor and OSBORNE. II IS cnardcter-
istic that little or nothing of the affa-I
was permitted 10 become known 10 the
public through the press, and mad IL not
been for the inevitable gossip that per
meatcs the atmosphere OF every royal
court, nothing would probably have be-
come known about the matter a all
II will Sc seen from this that the office
of policeman in attendance on the royal
family is by no means sinecure, Eld 1t
is of all posts the one in which faithful
Jealous and efficient service obtains the
least recognition and reward-not that
the royal personages are uugratetul to
those who guard them properly, but be-
cause the men who guard best are nalu-
rally those VINO make the least fuss. Thus
a constable whose sasactty and intclii-
gence may over and over again have pfa-
served the queen or prince from any KIND
Of trouble or hurt Will often be less TO-
uced than the more demonStratlve ser
want who perhaps once in his life had
the good luck to stay the arm Of would
be assassin as the pistol was fired, instead
The President Of the French republic
is guarded by a company of picked mem
bers of the Partisan police force, COM
posed of the cleVerest men in the service,
and they have kept watch over the chief
magistrates of France ever since the con-
stitution of the third republic in its pres
ent form. There has only been one break
in their term of service, and that was at
tended with fatal consequences. For some
reason never yet satisfactorily explained,
Prime Minister Dupuy dismissed the So
called Elysee Palace Brigade of police
shortly before NJ Sadi-CarnOts last visit
to Lyons, alleging that he had other pro-
lects IN view. with regard to providing for
the safety of the president.
These projects he failed TO put into exc
cution, and the result was that Nine.
Carnot, aware that her husband was in
daily receipt of anonymous letters threat
ening him with death, was thrown into
a stateof nervousness that filled her with
the gloomiest forebodings when he left
for the south. It was the first trip of the
kind that he took without being escorted
by members of the Elysee Palace Bril-
gade, and ii IS probable that had they
been in attendance Caserio would never
have succeeded in plunging his knife into
the breast of the unfortunate president. 1t
IS scarcely Necessary to add that one Of
the first things that wasl done after the
election OF NJ. Casimier Perier to the presi-
dency was to reconstitute on a still more
elaborate scale than heretofore the Ely
see Palace Brigade.
Police watch over the safety Of King
Humbert, one of them, a sergeant Of gem
darmerie. acting as the shadow of his
majesty by day and even by night He is
man of absolutely Herculean proper
| tions, of tried courage and resource, and,
being native OF Piedmont, is. like all
Alpine Italians, blindly devoted to his
| king. He has been attached to the ser
| vice of Humbert for many years, espe-
cially since the anarchist troubles which
| led to such severe reprisals on the part
| Of the government and to consequent
| threats of assassinating the king The
| latter is attended by this man even in his
perilOus mountain excursions after the
! chamois, and a night time has him sleep
| ing across the threshold of his room.
| The late car, Alexander III, relied for
! preservation from the hands of nihilist
/ assassins mainly upon the picked body of
! mos Tf,-a fasV, D, y, ]
! been selected for him by N. HyrVoix the
! chief of the palace police a the Tuileries
! in the days of Napoleon III NJ. HyrvoiX
| spent nearly two years at st. Petersburg
| organizing the service, which exercised SUI
| perViSiOn over every branch of the Catch
! ina palace administra ton, even to the very
! kitchens. The men were the most respect
| able of that bodyguard of picked police
| which watched over the safety Of NapO-
! leon III, and which was under the COM
| mand of the notorious COrsican Griscelli,
| who saved the life of the French emperor
! several times. His methods. however, were
! OF such 4 character scarcely to COM
/ mend themselves to a constitutional gov
| eminent. Thus when Count Camerata a
/ cousin Of Napoleon III, was assassinated
! in the Tutleries under circumstances which
would not bear publication to the world
| Griscelli disguised himself and followed
the supposed murderer, a man named
/ Zamba, TO London, where the latter was
/ mysteriously stabbed, his body being found
n0attng in the Thames Identically the
| same fate overlook Silvani di Perrurgio
who had organized pan for wrecking the
imperial train near BarritE. Somehow or
! other the would-be assassin fell a victim
TO a Corsican dagger at Bordeaux. Two
! other MazZin.st conspira tors named Ras-
/ SIM and Cali, who were engaged in a
scheme TO murder the emperor, were like
wise stabbed by Griscelli, and a certain
Sinibaldi a Mazzinist who was STAYING
at the Hotel Mirabeau at Paris under the
English name of Peters, was found hang
ing stone dead to the bars of his cell the
morning after his Incarceration in the
-Aiazas prison These are only few of the
/ numerous lives which are known to have
been taken by Griscelli in the defense OF
his imperial master. Napoleon III.
EX-Attache.
COL. WRENN's GOLD WATCH.