Evening journal., 1897-06-14
TRIED TO KILLFAUREI
A Bomb Thrown at the French
President In His Carriage.
TWO MEN ARRESTED ON SUSPICION.

The Perpetrator Is Supposed to Have Been
an Insane Mantle Crowd Attacks
and Roughly Handles Policeman,
Thinking Him the Culprit.
Paris, June 14.-An attempt was
made yesterday to assassinate NJ. Felix
Faure, the president Of the French re-
public, 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 Boulogne. bomb
which subsequently proved to be a piece
of tubing about inches long and
inches in diameter, with thickness OF
half an inch, charged with powder and
swan shot. exploded.
No one was injured by the explosion.
A man In the crowd suspected as the
prime mover was arrested, He gave
his name as Gallet and made only the
briefest replies to questions put to him
by the police.
Gallet said that he had no occupation,
but resided at Lovallois-Perrot. The
! police are making a thorough search OF
his lodging.
He is believed to be insane, for he
shouted as the carriage passed along so
loudly as to attract general attention
in the crowd. The police have also
made another arrest, in this case
youth, but it is thought probable that
the actual culprit escaped in the thicket.
The news Of the attempt spread like
wildfire through the city, and wnen 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 about 20
who stood In the crowd 100 yards or
more from the race course and dis
charged a pistol at NJ. Faure 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 Clumsy Affair.
The bomb was clumsily made af-
fair, to which a piece of fuse was at
, tached. and the fuse was probably
lighted by taper fixed In the end OF a
stick as soon as the head Of the process
sion came into view. The presumption
is that the moment the fuse was light
ed 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 engraved
the words Mort a Felix Faure " and
{ the names "Alsace-Lorraine" and "Co-
Iogne." Near the pistol was small
dagger, bearing a similar threatening
inscription, and a few feet away the po-
! lice found a newspaper, with a cartoon
, grossly insulting to the president. This
, contained an offensive inscription hint
ing at the execution of NJ. Faure.
Several persons have stated TO the
i police that the moment the explosion
S occurred a man was seen to run swift.
), " into the thicket, but reports Of thii
T character are more likely to be mere
q conjecture.
) A press correspondent had an inter
; view with an official who was ridinl
;. with M. Faure. who said;
when the report was heard, dens'
a cloud of smoke rose from the thicket
\ and there was terrible CONSERVATION
y until it was found that no one had beer
; injured The police sprang forward
d but found the thicket deserted.
when the crowd saw one OF the po
, Hceman holding the bomb, they Jumped
to the conclusion that he was the per
" petrator of the outrage and handled hin
s. roughly clubbing him with heav,
) walking sticks and umbrellas until hi
comrades rescued him, badly bruised
Y and covered with blood. The presi
F; dents cortege then proceeded to TIT
10 race course"
, The attempt on the life OF M. Faur
=, was made on the very spot Wher
:, Berezowsky tried to shoot the cza
while driving to the military review a
$ Longchamps in 1867 and where Fran
c. co.'s, a lunatic last year fired his re
d volver az NJ. Faure, on July IA.
S. Having this in mind, the police tool
r. extra precautions. Special officers wer
II detailed to watch suspects and TO
IA searching houses known 10 be the resor
= of dangerous characters.
u on his arrival al the race course NJ
Is Faure was warmly congratulated on hi
IS escape by the Grand Duke Sergius. NJ
Dr HanOtaux and other members of tn
10 cabinet
d His sang froid viii greatly increas
ls his popularity. Some of the papers as
~ sert that Rousteaux, the detective, ac
>, tually saw the man who threw tn
bomb and grappled with him, but wa
I'd unable to hold him in the melee. 1t
g. also rumored that the prefect of polic
IF has information connecting the Pari
anarchists with the outrage. but il
more generally believed that the &C
was that CT a madman and not Of
l- conspirator The pistol found by tn
er police was loaded but was of too sma
ps a caliber to be very dangerous.