The herald., 1897-09-01
FAMOUS ASSASSlNS
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Contributed to The Herald.

Contributed to The Herald.
For the second time within five years
the attention of the world has Just 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 singu-
lar fact is that in both instances the as
sassin 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 the nation into
mourning.
1t is often said that with the advance
of the world comes the deterioration of
! those methods which SAVIOR of savagery
and absence of anything like justice in
the law. Yet history shows us that as
sassination is like an immortal viper
that, crushed to earth, will sooner or
later raise its head and instil its poison
into the veins of another victim. Cano-
vas is declared to be the victim of the
International Association of Anarchists.
1t is alleged that the assassin Golli or
Angiolillo was delegated by lot at a
meeting of the central association of an
archists in London to kill Canovas. The
same statement was made at the time Of
the death of Carnot.
1t follows, then, disguise it as we may,
that an association, of murderers exists
! just as that one existed which decreed
that Caesar should die by the hand of
Brutus. If one will but stop to think,
he will see that here is another institu-
ton of the Roman empire which has
come down to us healthy and full
fledged 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
German, James I. of Scotland. Allies
sandro de Medici, Cardinal Beaton, Da-
vid Rizzio, Lord Darnley. the Earl Of
Murray, regent of Scotland, William of
Orange. Henry III. Of France, the Duke
of Buckingham, Wallenstein, Archbish-
op Sharp, Gustavus III. of Sweden, Ma
rat, the tyrant of the Commune; General
Kleber, Gear Paul of Russia, the Duke of
Parma, Abraham Lincoln, Sultan Alb
dul-Aziz, Gear Alexander II. of Russia,
President Garfield, Lord Frederick Cav
endish and T. H. Burke at Phoenix Park,
President Carnot.
| These by no means constitute 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 positions
such, that to murder them would create
terror; or persons whose rigid idea of
what their cause required was produc-
tive Of tortu e and other evils to those
whom their assas,sins represented.
Caesar waA the victim of jealousy, al
though Brutus had fancied grievance.
Canovas death is the direct result of
the execution of the anarchists at BARGE
Iona, after tortures which seem almost
incredible, but are vouched for by au-
thorities which cannot be lightly set
aside. The story of how this all came
about has been told again and again.
Surely it is blot on the history Of Spain,
and though for that cause the world may
not pardon an assassin, there is no rea-
son why it should not read lesson that
| the rulers Of the Old World seem to have
promptly taken to heart.
Coming over the list Of assassinations
of famous persons, the fact becomes evil
dent that three weapons were the IA
vorites of the assassins-the knife, the
pistol and the bomb. These three were
occasionally supplemented by poison, but
as rule held their places as favorites.
| All the history reading world Is famil-
lar with the death of David Rizzio, whom
love made the victim of trio Of assas-
sins. 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 assassinations,
| the most notable is found in the sixteenth
century when Henry w of France, one
Of the most beloved of monarchs, was
killed by Ravillac, tool Of the order of
Jesuits, religious body that was the
| most implacable enemy that the French
monarch had. Nineteen times had'Hen-
RVS life been attempted, but it was not
| until May IA, 1910, that the plot against
him reached a successful elimination.
The people of Paris punished the assas-
I sin themselves in the most frightful
manner, for they fairly tore him to
pieces.
| The one assassination which all his
torians in measure Justify, was the
stabbing to death of Jean Paul Marat
by Charlotte Corday, July 13, 1893. Marat
was the confrere of Robespierre and
Danton. Robespierre was bad enough.
but in Marat dwarfed body contained
superlative amount of viciousness and
lust for blood. His assa assination was
during what is known as the Reign of
Terror. which none had greater hand
in creating than he. So frightful were
his cruelties that Charlotte Corday.
quiet, modest woman of the people, was
stirred to what the sans culottes be-
lieved genuine heroism and today in the
minds of the French people she is more
saint than assassin.
The year 1900 was marked, by the as-
sas'sinatlon of a man of whom the world
knows but little, ar,d vet who did a vast
deal for that very world. The man was
Jean Baptiste Kleber, French general
the son OF garden la borer in Straeiburx.
While at Cairo. erdeavoring tonegotiate
treaty with the Turks, a Turkish ia
matte, who had conceived the idea that
kleber was an enemy of his country
shot him. France was at that time In
| state of lnOSt ar,arphy opI for th;u