The Washington times., 1901-09-08
THE RECORD OF ASSASSINS.
A Chronological Account of Their
Awful Propaganda.
Randed Together to Do Murder,
Their Acts Have Many Times
Startled the World-The Degrees
of Punishment Melted Out to Them.

The attempt on the life of President
Mckinley recalls 10 mind the many as
sassinations which have been committed
of monarchs, rulers, and other men prom
inent in public affairs.
There are grave mounds in every part
of the world where lie the bones OF men
and women whD have for one motive ana
another made themselves assassins of
rnonarchs, statesmen, generals, ana other
public characters. In the case of Few,
history has condoned their acts; in the
case OF the many. history has damned
their memories. From the upper crust
of society to the lowest layer there Is
general adherence Of the assassin and
the assassin's methods. The attempt on
the life of the President has brought out
this sentiment anew. The death of King
IIunbert revealed it. the recent narrow
escape of the German Emperor from the
attempt on his life and the narrow escape
of the Prince of Wales, now King Of
England, while in Belgium. also brought
It TO the surface. There is something in
the assassin's calling essentially coward
~, revealed most forcibly in the history
of the origin of the title.
The word is from the Arabian title
Hashshashin and Hashishlyin. the order
or sect OF assassins. or literally, hashish-
eaters. so called because the agents Sc
iected to do murder were first intoxi-
Gated with hashish The Order of the
Assassins was founded in Persia by Has
san ben Sabbah. about the year 1890. A
colony migrated from Persia to Syria,
settled in various places. with their chief
seat on the mountains of Lebanon, and
became remarkable for their secret muir
ders In blind obedience to the will of their
chief Their religion was compound of
Psganism. Judaism, Christianity, and
Mohammedanism. The chief of the sect
was known by the title of Old Man of the
Mountains. And now out Of the doinSs
of this sect the world has the word as
sassin," with all its terrible meaning of
,reacherous violence. So. too. has the
world a vivid history of the fate of assas-
sins. what has become of those who sped
the bullet, the knife. or the cup of poison
on its way and then faced punishment
The following are the names of some
of the worlds most famous assassins:
Brutus, A q. c.; Bagoas. 3Ss 3. C.; John
of Germany. 1903; Balthasar, 1884; Glenn
ent. 1883: Ravaillac, 1910; John FELTON,
162s; Damiens. 1857: Charlotte Corday 1885,
Bellingham, 1872; Lawrence, 1895: Booth
1865; Blind. 1866: Kullman, 1872; NobIing
1873; Passananti, 1878: Gonzalez. 1879;
Ivan" 1881; Guiteau. 1881: Prendergast
1885: Santo. 1894: Angoliilo, 1897: Arredon-
do. 1891: Arnulfo. 1897: Solinger. 1898; Luc-
cheni, 1895; Bresci. 1900.
grewsome roll this. here ard there
nIumined with a ray of light. Frghtful
the fate. too, that overlook many of these
.'unleasllers of discord.''
Short shrift was granted Bagoas. who
slew Artaxerxes III. of Persia. some 800
years before Christ. While he gave to
Persia a new ruler, he was himself
thrown into a pot OF boiling metal and
stewed alive. Marcus Junius Brutus. who
joined with Caius Cassius in the killing
OF Caesar. did not bring To- Rome that