Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-06-15
A BOMB FOR FAURE.
ATTEMPT TO ASsASsINATE THE
FRENCH PRESIDENT.
HE MAINTAINS HIS SELP.COMMAND.
Insane.

an attempt was maze sunday 10 as
sassinate Felix Faure, President of the
French republic, while he was en- route
for Long Champs, TO witness the Grand
Prix. While NJ. Faure's carriage was
passing thicket near La Cascade Res
taurant, in the Bois de Boulogne,
bomb, which subsequently proved to be
piece Of tubing about six inches long
and two inches in diameter. with a thick
ness OF half an inch, charged with pow
der and swan shot, exploded. No
one was injured by the explosion. a
man in the crowd suspected as the prime
mover. was arrested. lie gave his
name as Gallet and made only tho
briefest replies to questions put to him
by the police.
Gallet said that he had no occupation,
but resided at Levallols-PerTet. The
police are making thorough search of
his lodgings. lie IS believed TO be insane.
for he shouted as the carriage passed
along so loudly as to attract general at
tenti9n in the crowd. The police have
also made another arrest, In this case
youth, but il is thought probable that
the actual culprit escaped in the thicket.
The news of the attempt spread like
wildfire 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 vociferousy.
1t was at first reported that the would
be assassin was a young man about %,
who stood in the crowd hundred yards
or more from the race course and dis
charged a pistol at NJ. Fapre as he
drove up to the entrance, and there was
a subsequent report that 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 clumsiy made affair, 10
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.
PISTOL AND DAGGER FOUND.
In the thicket where the police found
the remnants Of the bomb. they found
also a pistol upon which were engraved
the words Mort a Felix Faure," and
the names Alsace-LOrraine and Cologne.
Near the pistol was a small dagger bear
ing a similar threatening inscription;
and a few feet away the police found q
newspaper with a cartoon grossly in
sultng 10 the President. This contained
an offensive inscription hinting a the
execution of NJ. Faure.
Several persons have stated to the
police that at the moment the explosion
occurred a man was seen 10 run swiftly
into the thicket. but reports OF this
character are likely 10 be mere conjec-
ture.
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 cloud of smoke rose from the
thicket, and there was CONSERVATION until
II was found that no one had been IN
iured 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 out
rage, and handled him roughly, clubbing
him with heavy walking-sticks and UNI
brelas until his comrades rescued him,
badly bruised and covered with blood.
The Presidents cortege then proceeded
10 the race course"
/. FAURE BEHAVED WELL.
The Paris correspondent of the Daily
News says:
IN. Faure behaved with perfect self
command and continued to bow right
and left TO the crowd after the explosion,
as If nothing unusual had happened.
The bomb exploded at $3.50 =. NJ, in the
Avenue des Accacias, at the far end,
where this fashionable drive issues from
the shelter Of the sycamores and plane
trees into the broad daylight OF Long
Champs Plain.
THE roadway had been clear for some
time. The presidential escort was led
by two dragons holding their pistols for
ward in the most threatening way. Then
came a large body of dragoons and after
them. in the midst Of "A cloud of dust
the Presidents open carriage, with out
riders The President was accompanied
nv his wife. while in another carriage
| were his two daughters, Mile. Lucie Faure
and Nine. Berge. The horses attached
| 10 NJ Faure's carriage reared wildly al
the explosion, but were whipped on by
Nontiarrets vigorous arm. RousteauX
the detective, who is always with The
| president. rushed forward and grapple1
with a man. but was Immediately set
upon by haf-dozon persons in thC
crowd. probably accomplices of the would
he assassin. The crowd mistook the
detective for an AhdIchlSt' anu "c4t
about TO lynch him. He was beaten
| kicked spat upon, and was not rescued
by the police until bleeding ana uhcoh'
ecious from a terrible beating.
M Faure sent an officer this evening
20 inouire as 10 the condition OF Ros-
teauX." .,o,,>-r
ANOTHER BONE FOUND.
PARIS June 1l.-This afternoon the
rolice found a second tube filled with
powder and scrap-iron, near the scene
of yesterdays explosion when the life
of President Faure was endangered
They are of the opinion that the mis-
| creant is the man who placed eXplo-
sive tubes of a similar character In the
Place de la Concorde during the recent
visit of the Emperor Nicholas.