The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-14
CANOVAS ESCAPED ONCE.
AN ITTICK ON HIM F~RJSTRlTED
ON JULY "a AT SAN SEBASTIAN.

A ForeiEneF Approached Him Suddenly In the
Park nj About . o'clock ana Made as n to
Draw = Weapon, but was Seized ana Held
~ the Crowd-was No the Anarchist COLL :
HAVANA. Aug. 1L-Among the many interest
Ing details OF the assassination Of Canovas
cabled to Havana by the Madrid correspondent
Of La Lucha since last Sunday. when only the
bare news Of the crime was allowed to DO pub
lshed, 10 tho startling fact that tho assassin
COLL. or AnRlollino, attacked Canovas on the
evening OF last July "a at San Sebastian, and
was neither arrested nor watched nfterward by
the police. because the Prime Minister gave
orders not to modest the Anarchist.
Sohor Canovas was passing through one Of the
alleys Of the park which is in front Of the Casino
of San Sebastian at about z o'clock in the even.
ing. whom n well-drossed man, apparently a
foreigner, approached him In such a suspicious
manner that tho Prime Minister stopped and
raised his cane In self.defence. Tho man seized
Canovns by the loft arm and was evidently GO
ing to draw a weapon when the Prime Minister
loudly commanded him to stop. Persons ran
from all sides to the Premier's aid. and tho
stranger, apologizing and bowling, told Canovas
that he was In great distress, and wanted only
to ask for a little money. Tho newcomers and
a gendarmc of the park held him. but Canovss
ordered them to set him free. The order was
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ovas with great apparent humility.
An hour afterward the rumor spread through
out San Sebastian that the Prime Minister had
been attacked, and many of Canovas's friends
called on him to express sympathy. The news
was telegraphed to all the newspapers In Spain,
and was sent by the foreign news agencies to
France. Sehor Canovas Immediately made an
official denial. and tho following paragraph was
published by La Epoca on July 90 and trans
mitted on tho same day by cable to La Lucha:
The rumor has spread that night before last
a Frenchman attacked Schor Canovas del Cas-.
tillo in San Sebastian. The Primo Minister de.
MES the truth Of the rumor. and says that the
Frenchman only asked him for aid"
In speaking Of the occurrence with his friends,
Canovas said that he was absolutely sure that
the man who stopped him was only a begear.
He said, also. that the man was q Frenchman,
as was proved by his accent, and that he proba.
bly, was a bankrupt gambler. Between Biarritz
and San Sebastian there are many gamblers this
time Of year. and at the San Sebastian Casino
the French game Of trente ct Qudrante 10 played
from morning till night.
Not the least doubt Is expressed now BY tho
Spanish police that Golli or Angiollino is tho
man who stopped Canovas on July 81 and was
mistaken by tho Prime Minister for a French.
man.
Tho wife of Canovas believed, when COLL
fred at him, that the assassin was a Cuban rev.
olutionist. That also was the first news spread
at Santa Agueda. 1t has been discovered that
Coli was q personal friend of Csesare Santo, or
Caserio, who assassinated President Carnot,
and that both belonged to a secret society in
Italy, whose aim is to kill the heads of European
Governments.
The many Spanish Carlists in Cuba, among
whom Is an official agent Of the Pretender, are
very hopeful that the killing OF Canovar will
lead to the triumph Of Don Carlos. They say
that an absolute monarchy is the only remedy
for the evils Of anarchy, and that the Cuban
problem may be settled by the establishment of
home rule in the island. with q viceroy as the rep
rescntative Of the King. The first viceroy may
be elected by the Cubans in arms, they say, and
be even Gen. Gomez himself.
Don Carlos's agents here have full powers
from the Pretender to work for tho success of
this plan. During the wa Of 1868 Don Carlos
offered the office Of Viceroy of Cuba to tho
wealthy Cuban. Don Miguel Albania, conspicu.
Gus among the revolutionists at that time.
There is no more hope now that the plan will DO
accepted than there was then. As ALBANIA 70.
fused the place that Don Carlos offered him, 90
would Gen. Gomez.