Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-06-14

Paris, June 19.-An attempt was
made to-day to assassinate Felix
Faure, President Of the French Repub-
lis, while he was en- route to Long
Champs to witness the Grand PriX.
While NJ. Faure's carriage was pass
ing a thicket near La Cascade restau-
rant, in the Bois de Bolougne, a bomb,
which subsequently proved to be a piece
Of tubing about six inches long and two
inches in diameter, with thickness
of half an inch, charged with powder
and swanshot, exploded.
No one was injured By the explo-
sion. A man in the crowd suspected as
THE PRIME MOVER,
was arrested. He gave his name as
Gallet, and made only the briefest re-
plies to questions put to him by the
police. Gallet said that he had no oc-
cupation, but resided at Levallers-Per-
ret. The police are making a thorough
search of his lodgings. He is believed
to be insane. for he shouted as the car
riage passed along so loudly as to at
tract general attention in the crowd.
The police have also made another ar
rest; in this case a youth, but it is
thought probable that the actual cul-
prit escaped.
The news of the attempt spread like
wild-fre through the city, and when
NJ. 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 Of
about twenty-five, who stood in the
crowd a hundred yards or more from
the race course and discharged pistol
at NJ. Faure as he drove up to the en-
trance. and there was a subsequent re-
port that both pistol and bomb were
used But the police now believe the
supposed pistol shot was merely the
noise of the bomb.
The bomb was a clumsy-made affair,
to which a piece of fuse was attached
and the fuse was probably lighted by
a paper fixed in the end of stick
as soon as the head of the procession
came into view. The presumption is
that at the moment 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 found
also a pistol upon which were en-
graved the words: Mort a Felix
Faure." and the names Alsance-Lor-
raine and Cologne. Near the pistol
was a small dagger bearing a similar
threatening inscription; and few feet
away the police found a newspaper
with a cartoon grossly insulting to the
President. This contained an offensive
inscription limiting at the execution Of
NJ. Faure.
The police made three arrests yes
terdav afternoon on suspicion of COM
plicity in the bomb explosion, among
them being two brothers, Galbet and
Lauvin Bainier. They were closely
questioned by NJ. Athalin, the exam
ining magistrate, but as they gave sat
isfactory accounts of themselves and
their movements, they were released
about midnight.
A FAVORITE PLACE.
To-dav's attempt on the life of Pres
ident Faure was made on the very spot
where Berezowsky tried to shoot the
Car while driving to the military re-
view at Long Champs in 1867, and
where Francois. lunatic, fired his re-
volver at NJ. Faure on July 14th last.
1t is rumored that the prefect Of
police has information connecting the
Paris anarchists with the outrage, but
it is generally believed that iae act
was the act of a madman rather than
of a conspirator.' The pistol founc by
the police was loaded, but was Of too
small a calibre to be very dangerous.
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