The Portland daily press., 1900-04-11
ESCAPES OF ROYALTY.
Some Of the Uns.eees.fsf Attempts
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The Attempted assaa.inasien Of the
Prince Of wales By ths appArsntiy de-
msnted youth sipide. snd the escape Of
the intsnded victim, despite the fact that
two shots were fired At siess ranes. lends
color 10 the claim that . special Proyi-
denes watches over the person cf royalty.
In reading history oas is struck BY the
many Instances Ia which royal person.
ages have escaped sssAssinasion under the
most sxrtaordinary..c y..circumstaness.
osorgs Ill. Of England was attacked
twics in the same day. This was May.
1900. when man shot at him In Hyde
Park, bus missed his mark. On the
night Of the same day another man stood
up In the pit Of the Drury Lane theatre.
only a fsw fest from the royal box, and
fire . pistol point-blank as the king. In
full view Of the whois audience. The
king, however, was again lucky enough
to escape urharmed.
Perhaps the best known attempt as as
ssssination which was frustrated was the
attempt ef Guy Fawkes to blow mp the
House Of Commons and King James.
The plot was accidentally discovered By
james himsslf, who never could forget
or let others forget the wonderful fore
sight he fAncied be displayed In the mat
ter.
One Of the most extraordinary escapes
from the hands ef an assassin was that
tf Napoleon Bonaparte. when he was
/ irst Consul Of France. In December.
1900. The oonspirators chose day when
Es was due at the opera, and planted
themselves on ths principal thcruughfars
through which he was TO pass. They had
with them barrel CT gunpowder, which
was PLACED In cnrt, drawn up at ths
sids Of the street. Abe barrel was guarded
By one CT the oonspirators, st. Regent,
| who was to fire the train and depart on 9
signal from the other two assassins,
stationed further down ths strest.
Through soms cause the two sooomplicss
failed to give the signal In time, and the
first thing st. Regent knew the Consul's
cnrriass appeared. Quickly applying the
match to the fuse, 81. Regent endeavored
60 escape, but. TO his terror, found him
salt unapls TO pass the wall Of cavslry,
the Consuls advance-guard, which
blocked the street. A terribis explosion
occurred, and the barrel, which was filled
with grape-sh0t, did horrible damage.
Thirty pecpie were killed and hfty-two
wounded, st. Regent hirnsslf being ter
libly maimsd. but Honaparte escaped un-
hurt.
A somewhat similar attempt was made
upon the life Of Emperor Napoleon Ill.
On the i4th OF January, 1903. The assas-
sin In this case was the notorious Orsini,
whore famous bombs are said to have
effected one hundred and sixty different
explosions, The attack occurred when
the Emperor and his wife were ON their
way to the Opera-house. Orsin, Pieror,
Come, and Rudio, armed with the ter.
| rible little magazines which were the In.
vention Of Orsini himself, stationed them
selves along the route by which the royal
carriage was to travel. when the car
Of tbs other oonspirators hurled their
bombs right under the wheelst There
wers three terrific explQzfeEs, and when
the smoke cleared away the imperial oar
riAee was found to be shattered, both
hoIsEs killed the coAohman on the box
but the Emperor and kmprssss qui'e I'M
harmed. Orsiri himself received ter
rible wound from his own bomb.
An attsm pted aaaaat inAtion almost dia-
boIicaI In the preparation IL involved was
the attempts uron ths lire Of Louis
Philippe. made BY the assassin Fresohl
on July 2S, 1885, on q thoroughfare
through which the King was wont to
pass. kreschi hired front room ON the
Iirst floor If house. Stripping the room
s.of Its furnituIe. Frecbi then lowered the
bIi ad and constructed o diaboiioAl ma
chine, consisting Of twenty five ssparass
gun barrels fastened together In the snaps
Of the frame Of fan. These gun barrels
we're mounted on stout frame and
pointed at the street below SO as to coyeI
the entire width Of the road. The drawn
blind, Of course. hid tho machine from
the view Of palssrs-hy. These gun-bax'
Tels were then charged with powder, and
toue .boles were al connected with Z
train Of gunpoWdsr. so that the whols
twenty five guns would fire their one
hundred bullets slim ultaneousiy. Fresch!
waited until the time OF the ocmmenn0ra
tiou OF the Kings secs salon, and thsn 81
the procession came through the street,
and the King was outside his houss
drawing up the blind, he tired the trail
Of his Internal machine. Twenty 1--we
auns belched shower OF lead. Forty
rersons surrounding the King were In
stantIy killed, the Kings horse was Shot
graze on the cheek. There were altogsthel
Ave attempts upon the life OF Loui
Philippe, AllehAnd making one In 1886
Damtens another in 1870, and Lacombl
ana Henri two distinct attempts In 1876
bot the King seemed to bear u charmss
life, and came out OF the various ordsAl
un nscatned
The German Emperor has been at
lacked three timee. but still survives 9
Queen Victoria. popular as she Ii, ha
slso ssn an object Of attack by the as
sassin. and on three different occasions
has had to thank Provi1ence for mar
row escape. The Gear Of Russia has hss
sny attacks made upon him.
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