The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-14
WITH A BOMB.
A Second Attempt on the Life of
President Faure
Is Made at the Same Spot
Where Francois
FIRED ONE YEAR AGO.
A Pistol and Dagger Are Found
Near By.
A Policeman Mistaken by the
Crowd and Beaten.
ONE MAN ARRESTED.
But 1t is Believed the Guilty
One Escaped.
No One Was Hurt by the EX-
plOsiOn of the Bomb.
A Policeman Mistaken by the
Crowd and Beaten.
ONE MAN ARRESTED.
But 1t is Believed the Guilty
One Escaped.
No One Was Hurt by the EX-
plOsiOn of the Bomb.

Paris. June 14.-An attempt was made
yesterday to assassinate Felix Faure,
president of the French republic, while
he was en- route to Long Champs to
witness the Grand Prix. While M.
Faure's carriage was passing a thicket
near La Cascade restaurant, in the Bois
de Bolougne, a bomb, which subsequent
" proved to be piece of tubing about
six inches long and two inches in diam
eter. with a thickness of half an inch,
charged with powder and swanshOt. ex-
ploded. No one was injured by the ex-
plosiou
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 MIN
by the police.
Ganet said that he had no occupation,
but resided at LeVallers- Perret. 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 an
other arrest, in this case youth, but it
is thought probable that the actual cul-
prit caped-
The news of the attempt spread like
wildive through the city, and when NJ.
Faure returned to the Elysee the streets
along the route where it was known he
would drive We're crowded with people,
who cheered him vociferOusly.
1t was at first reported that the
would-be assassin was a young man
about %. who stood in the crowd a hun
dTed yards or more from the race
course and discharged pistol at NJ
FauTe 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 suppos-
ed pistol shot was merely the noise of
the bomb.
The bomb was a clumsily made af-
fair, to which a piece of fuse was at
cached, and the fuse was probably light
ed by q paper fixed in the end of a stick
as soon as the head of the procession
In the thicket where the police found
the remnants Of the bomb, they found
also 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
bearing a similar threatening inscrip-
tion; and few feet away the police
IOund a newspaper with a cartoon
grossly insulting to the president. This
contained an offensive inscription hint
ing at the execution of NJ. Faure.
The correspondent of the Associated
Press had an interview with an official
who was riding with NJ Faure. The Of
fetal said.
When the report was heard, a dense
cloud of smoke rose from the thicket
and there was cOnsterna ton until it
was found that no one had been injur-
ed Ihe police Sprang forward. but
found the thicket deserted When the
crowd saw one of the policemen holding
the bomb. they jumped to the conclu-
sion that he was the perpetratOr of the
outrage and handled him roughly. club
bing him with heavy walkingsticks and
umbrellas until his comrades rescued
him, badly bruised and covered with
blood The presidents cOrtege then
proceeded to the race course
This attempt on the life of NJ. Faure
was made on the very spot where Bere-
zowsky tried to shoot the czar while
driving TO the military review at Long
Champs in 1867. and where Francois. a
lunatic. fired his revolver at NJ. Faure
on July last.
It is a curious fact that the Petite
RepubhQue Francais published a sta te-
ment declaring that the police were
DuSy organizing an incident for NJ.
Faure's visit to Russia, suggesting that
a nimble clown would be dressed in
rags and jump upon the step of the
PRESIDENTS carriag ge, brandishing hon.
icidal weapon.
It is rumored that the prefect of po-
nee mas 1nformat ton connecting the
Paris anarchists with the outrage. but
II IS generally believed that the act
was the act of madman rather than
OF a cOnspiratOr. The pistol found by
the police was loaded, but was of too
small caliber to be very dangerous
London, June 1.-THE Paris cores
pondent of the Daily News saws:
M Faure behaved with perfect self
command and continued to bow right
and left to the crowd after the exDlO-
sion, as If nothing unusual had happen
ed
The bomb exploded at 2.5O n in
Rhe Avenue Des Accacias. at the far
end, where this fashiona BILE drive issues
from the shelter Of sycamores and
plane trees into a broad daylight of
Long Champs Plain.
The roa adway had been clear for some
tlnne- Ihe presidential escort was led
by two dragons holding their pistols
forward in the most threatening wav.
Then came large body of Dragons
and after them, in the midst of a cloud
of dust, the presidents open carriage
with ouriders- The president was ac-
cOmpanied by his wife, while in anotb
er were his two daughters Mile. Lucie
Faure and Nine. Berge"
New York, June IA dispatch to the
World from Paris says:
The attempt on the life of President
Faure was artfully planned. About 100
yards below the Cascade in the Bois De
BOulOgne, near the famous restaurant
celebrated for its exclusive PATRONAGE
and high prices, is a thick clump of IL
lac bushes, where the assassin lay in
ambush.
There he effectualy secreted himself
from observation
The presidential carriage and cor
tege were travelling at a smart gallop
1t was after o'clock and NJ. Faure