The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1897-08-10
Anarchists Ordered the Kill
ing of Premier CanOvas.
PIDAL TO SUCCEED TIE PREMIER
He WIN Probably Be Appointed After
the Usual Nine-Days' Period OF
Mourning Has Elapsed.

MADRID, Aug. 9.-The assassination
of Prime Minister Senior Canovas del
Castillo, who was shot and killed by an
italian anarchist, whose name is be-
lieved to be Michele Angeline Coli, at
the baths of Santa Agueda, yesterday
afternoon, was undoub btedly cold blooded
and premeditated. Golli deliberately
watched for an opportunity to kill the
Spanish statesman, and he only fred
when he had no chance of missing. In
fact, the assassin, who was arrested al
most Immediately when the premier fell
dead at the feet of his wife, declared as
much to the examining magistrate.
Further details of the assassination
show that Senor Canovas del Castillo
and his wife were present yesterday
morning at the celebration of mass in
the chapel attached to the baths. After
mass the premier was reading and con-
versIng with some reporters when. the
assassin approached and fred three shots
at him with a revolver, hitting him in
the forehead, chest and left ear.
The wounded man fell to the ground,
crying, Assassin; long live Spain ~
The premier was carried to his room
and expired at 80 p. M, after extreme
JUNCTION had been administered to him
by priest of the Dominican order.
The murderer was Immediately seized
by the people in the vicinity, and would
have been killed had it not been for the
protection of the civil guards. The
prisoner, who declared he had killed the
premier, sin accom- plishment of just
vengeance" gave the name of Rinaldi
and claimed the deed was the outcome
of an extensive anarchist conspiracy.
Later, however, the assassin confessed
his real name was Michele Angeline
Golll, that he was twenty-sIx years of
age, native of Boggi, near Naples, and
left Italy and came to Spain in 1896.
After reaching Spain GollI, according to
his confession, resided at Barcelona and
participated in the doings of various
anarchist societies of that place and vi
cinity. After sojourning at Barcelona
for some time, Golli visited France and
Belgium and returned to Spain in July
last.
AllSE HIS EObuEU Ju0 dOarCQl6GS seemed
to have completed their plans for the as
Rassination of the prime minister. He
left Madrid for Santa Agueda at the
same time as Senor Canovas del Castillo
and waited an opportunity to assassin
ate the statesman. He says he is salts
fed with having done ''his Duty and
asserts he has no personal grudge against
the premier, and was merely obeying
orders received from his superiors in the
secret society to which he belonged. He
frankly processes anarchist doctrine,
says he was sentenced in 1895 to eighteen
months imprisonment in Jail at Lucera,
Italy, and claims he escaped from there
to Marseilles, from which port he made
his way to Paris.
Sonora Canovas, wife of the premier,
who was but short distance from her
husband when the crime was committed, =,
bitterly reproached the murderer for his
crime. Coli in reply to the agonizing
words of the distracted wife, said:
81 respect you because you are an
honorable lady, but 1 have done my
duty, and I am now easy in mind, for 1