The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-06-15
Exploded Near His Carriage
But Without Damage.
PARIS STARTLED BY NEWS
CROWDS 4URN OUT AND CHEEF
THE PRESIDENT
But Two Men Arrested on Suspicion
Pistol and Dagger Found in Thicket
The Bomb Was Lighted
Too Quickly.

The Bomb Was Lighted
Too Quickly.
Paris, June 13-An attempt was made
today to assasinate Felix Faure, Presi-
dent of the French republic, while he
was en- route to Long Champs to witness
the Grand Prix.
While NJ. Faure's carriage was passing
thicket near La Cascade restaurant, in
the Bois de Boulogne, bomb, which sub
sequently proved to be a piece of tubing
about six inches long and two inches in
diameter, with a thickness of half an
inch, charged with powder and swanshot
| exploded
No one was injured by the explosion.
A man in the crowd, suspected as the
prime mover, was arrested He gave his
name as Gallet, and made only the brief
est replies to questions put to him by
| the police. Gallet said he had no occu-
| patton, but resided at Levallers-Perret
The police are making a thorough search
of his lodgings. He is believed to be in
sane, for he shouted, as the carriage
passed along, so loudly as to attract gen
eral attention in the crowd. The police
have also made another arrest, in this
| case q youth but it is thought probable
| that the actual culprit escaped in the
| thicket.
NEWS SPREAD LIKE WILDFIRE.
| The news of the attempt spread like
| wildfire through the city, and when M.
| Faure returned to the Eleysee 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 %,
who stood in the crowd a hundred yards
or more from the race-course and dis
charged a pistol at NJ. Faure as he drove
up to the entrance, and there was sub
sequent reportthat both pistol and bomb
were used. But the police now believe
! that the supposed pistol shot was merely
/ the noise of the bomb.
| The bomb was a clumsily made affair,
| to which a piece of fuse was attached.
! and the fuse was probably lighted by a
paper fixed in the end of a stick as soon
as the head of the procession came into
view. The presumption is that at the mo-
ment the fuse was lighted the culprit
! fled, and in any case the bomb could not
have done much harm.
In the thicket where the police found
| the remnants of the bomb they also found
a pistol. upon which were engraved the
words Mort a Felix Faure," and the
names Alsace-Lorraine and Cologne.
| Near the pistol was smafl dagger, bear
! ing a similar threatening inscription, and
a few feet away the police found a news
paper with cartoon grossly insulting to
| the president. This contained an often
sive inscription, limiting at the execution
! of NJ. Faure.
POLICEMAN BEATEN BY CROWD.
! Several persons have stated to the po-
| lice that the moment the. explosion oc-
Cured man was seen to run swiftly
into the thicket, but reports Of this
| character are likely to be mere conjec-
| ture.
The correspondent OF the Associated
Press had an Interview with an official,
who was riding with NJ. Faure. The of
| fetal said:
"When the report was heard a dense
| cloud of smoke rose from the thicket,
and there was CONSERVATION until it was
| found that no one had been injured. The
! police sprang forward, but found the
! thicket deserted. When the crowd saw
one of the policemen 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 un-
| I'll his comrades rescued him, badly
bruised and covered with blood. The
presidents cortege then proceeded to the
race course"
NJ. FAURE WAS NOT EXCITED.
| NJ. Faure behaved with perfect self
I 49, \
| left to the crowd after the explosion, as
| if nothing unusual had happened.
The bomb exploded at 2.J0 p. IN. in the
Avenue des Accacias, at the far end,
where this fashionable drive issues from
the shelter of sycam0res aud plane trees
into the broad daylight of LOngchamps
| plain. The roadway had been clear for
some time. The presidential escort was
| led by two dragons holding their pistols
| forward in the most threatening way.
Then came large body of Dragons, and
after them, in the midst of a cloud of
dust, the presidents open carriage with
outriders. The president was accom-
panied by his wife, while in another car
riage were his two daughters, Mile.
Lucie Faure and Nine. Berge.
The horses attached to NJ. Faure's car
riage reared wildly at the explosion, but
We're whipped on by Montjarret's vigor-
our arm. Rousteaux, the detective, who
is always with the president, rushed for
ward and grappled with the man, but
was Immediately set upon by half do
zen persons in the crowd, probably ac-
completes of the would-be assassin. The
crowd mistook the detective for an an
archist, and were about to lynch him.
He was beaten, kicked, spat upon, and
i N
and unconscious from terrible beating.
TWO OTHER ATTEMPTS.
Today's attempt on the life Of M.
Fanre was made on the very spot where
BerezowsFv tried to shoot the Gar