The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-23
Famous ASSdSSindtiOnS.
Murder of Canovas Calls Mind the Fact That Death
i'll This Form Finds Many Victims

For the second time within five years
the attention of the world has been
fixed upon an assassin. The first was
when Carnot, the French president,
was stabbed to death; the second, the
murder of Premier Canovas of Spain.
a singular fact is that in both in
stances the assassin was a native Of
another country, and his visit to the
place of his crime was for the express
purpose of committing the deed which
plunged a nation into mourning.
1t is often said that with the ad-
vance of the world comes the deterio-
ration of those methods which SAVIOR
of savagery and absence of anything
like Justice in the law. Yet history
shows us that assassination is like an
immortal viper that, crushed to earth,
will sooner or later again raise It's
head and instill its poison into the
veins of another victim. Canovas Is
declared. to be the victim of the IN
ternational Association of Anarchists.
1t is alleged that the assassin COIN,
or Angiolillo, was delegated by lot at
a meeting of the central association OF
anarchists in London to Kill CanoVas'
The same statement was made at the
time of the death of Garnet.
1t follows, then, disguise it as we
NAV. that an association of murdererS
exists just as that one existed Whlcn
decreed that Caesar should die by the
hand of Brutus. If one will but stop
to think. he will see that here is an
other institution of the Roman empire
which has come down to US healthy
and full-hedged as in the days when
the yellow Tiber paid ceaseless homage
to the City of the Seven Hills that
ruled the world. Caesar was the first
statesman of whom history tells the
story of assassination. Canovas is the
last
In the centuries which interviewed be-
tween these two crimes the hand of the
assassin has been busy. Look at the
list: Thomas Beckett, Emperor Albert
I. of Germany, James 1. of Scotland,
Allessandro de Medici, Cardinal Beaton,
David Rizzio, Lord Darnley, the Earl
of Murray, regent of Scotland; William
of Orange, Henry Ill of France, the
Duke of Buckingham, Wallenstein,
Archbishop Sharp Gustavus III. of
Sweden, Marat the tyrant of the COM
STA, the Duke of Parma, Abraham
Lincoln, Sultan Abdul-Aziz, Car
Alexander II. of Russia. President Gar
field, Lord Frederick Cavendish and T.
H. Burke, at Phoenix park, President
Carnot.
These by no means constitute a COM
plete list of those who have fallen vic
TINS to fate and circumstances. They
are merely those who held high places
On the roll of fame, and whose power
over others was so great, their posi-
tlonS SUCH that to murder them would
create terror; or persons whose rigid
idea of what their cause required was
productive of torture and other evils
to those whose whom their assaSsins
represented. Caesar was the victim of
jealousy, although Brutus had a fan
cied grievance. CanovaS' death is the
direct result of the execution of the
anarchists at Barcelona, after fortunes
which seem almost incredible, but are
vouched for by the authorities which
cannot be lightly set aside. The story
of how this all came about has been
told again and again. Surely it is q
blot on the history of Spain, and,
though for that cause the world may
not pardon an assassin, there is no
reason why it should not read les
son that the rulers of the old world
seem to have promptly taken to heart
Coming over the list of assassina-
lions of famous persons, the fact be-
comes evident that three weapons were
the favorites of the assassins-the
knife, the pistol, the bomb. These
three were occasionally supplemented
by poison, but as a rule held their
places as favOrites
All the history reading world is
familiar with the death of David Riz-
zio, whom love made the victim of a
trio of assassins Who has not seen
that famous painting that depicts his
death at the feet of the woman for
whose beauty and love his life was
sacrificed Mary, Queen of Scots.
Passing over the earlier assassina-
tons, the most notable is found in the
18th century, when Henry ". of
France, one Of the most beloved of
monarchs, was killed by Ravillac, a
tool of the order of Jesuits, religious
BODY that was the most implacable
enemy that the French monarch had.
Nineteen times had Henry's life been
attempted, but it was not until May
IA, 1870 that the plot against him
reached successful elimination. The
people of Paris punished the assassin
themselves in the most frightful man
ner, for they fairly tore him to pieces
The one assassination which all his
torians in a measure justify, was the
by Charlotte Corday, July Is, 1913.
Marat was the confrere of Robespierre
and Danton. Robespierre was bad
enough, but in Marat, a dwarfed BODY
contained superlative amount of
viciousness and lust for blood. His
assassination was during what is
known as the Reign of Terror, which
none had a greater hand in creating
than he. So frightful were his cruel
ties that Charlotte Corday, quiet,
modest woman of the people. was stir
red to what the sans cuIottes believed
genuine heroism, and today in the
minds of the French people she is more
saint than assassin.
Inc year 1900 was marked by the as
sasslnatlon of man of whom the world
knows but little, and yet who did a.
vast deal for that very world, The man
was Jean Baptiste Kleber, a French
general, the son of a garden Iaborer
in Strasburg. While at Cairo, endeav-
orlng to negotiate a treaty with the
Turks, Turkish fanatic who had con-
ceiVed the idea that Kleber was an
enemy of his country, shot him. France
was at that time in a state of almost
anarchy, and for this rea=al the death
of a man who ranked with the greatest
field marshals of Europe in point of
ability was passed over with COMPARE
lively light notice.
Assassination has been the sword of
D2mocles suspended over the heads of
the cars of Russia Twice has it fall
len. Once March "a, 1901, and again
March Is, 1881 The first event of this
sort was the death of the Car Paul.
who in an actual fight with his mobiles
and officers was strangled. The second
death was that of Car Alexander II.
who on the date mentioned, while din
Ing at st. Petersburg, was killed by a
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