Evening star., 1897-06-14
Alleged Attempt on Life Of President
Faure Yesterday.
FRENCHMEN BELIrlLE TEE AFFAIR
Say at Worst It Was the Work of
a Mailman.
NO DAMAGE WAS INTENDED

PARIS, June 14.-The newspapers Of this
city today agree in saying that the alleged
attempt to assassinate President Faure yes
terday was either practical joke or the
act of a madman. and that the so-called
anybody.
Az attempt was made yesterday to as
sassinate Felix Faure, president of the
French republic, while he was en- route to
Long Champs, to witness the Grand PriX.
While M. Faure's carriage was passing
thicket near La Cascade restaurant, in
the Bois de Boulogne, bomb, which SUBJ
sequently was found to be piece of tubing
about six inches long and two inches in
diameter, with a thickness of half an inch,
charged with powder and swan shot, ex-
ploded.
A man in the crowd suspected of being
the prime mover was arrested He gave
his name as Gallet and made only the
triefest replies to questions put to him by
the police.
Gallet said that he had no occupation.
but resided at Levallos-Perret He is be-
Heved to be insane, for he shouted as the
carriage passed along SO loudly as to at
tract general attention in the crowd
The police have also made another ar
rest; in this case, youth. but 1t is thought
probable that the actual culprit escaped
in the thicket.
News Spread Rapidly.
The news of the attempt spread like
W1ldnre through the city, and when M.
Faure returned to the Elysee the streets
along the route where it was known he
would drive were crowded with people, who
cheered him vociferously.
1t was at first reported that the would
be assassin was a young man about tWen-
ty-five, who stood in the crowd a hundred
rno
discharged pistol at NJ. Faure as he
drove up to the entrance, and there was a
subsequent report that both pistol and
bomb were used. But the police now be-
lieve that the supposed pistol shot was
merely the noise OF the bomb.
The bomb was a clumsiIy made affair
to which piece of fuse was attached and
the fuse was probably lighted by a paper
lHed In the end OF a stick as soon as the
mead of the procession came into view
The presumption is that at the moment the
fuse was lighted the culprit fed, and in
any case the bomb could not have done
much harm.
Pistol With an Inscription.
In the thicket where the police found
the remnants of the bomb they found also
a pistol, upon which were engraved the
word Mort Felix Faure," and the
names Alsace-Lorraine and Cologne. Near
the pistol was small dagger, bearing a.
similar threatening inscription, and a few
feet away the police found a newspaper
with cartoon grossly insulting to the
president. This contained an offensive in
scription limiting at the execution of M
Faure.
Several persons stated to the police that
the moment the explosion occurred a man
was seen to run swiftly into the thcket
The correspondent Of the Associated
Press had an interview with an official who
was riding with NJ. Faure. The official
said:
: When the report was heard a dense
ciouo OF smoke rose from the thicket, and
there was CONSERVATION until it was found
mat no one had been injured. The police
sprans forward, but found the thicket de-
serted
When the crowd saw one Of the police
men holding the bomb they jumped to the
conclusion that he was the perpetrator of
the outrage, and handled him roughly
clubbing him with heavy walking sticks
and umbrellas until his comrades rescued
MIN, MIN, badly bruised and covered with blood.
The presidents cortege then proceeded to
the race course