The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-09-15
RECORD 0F~ASSASSINS
A CHRONOLOGICAL ACCOUNT OF
 THEIR AWFUL PROPAGANDA.
Banded Together to Do Murder, Their Acts Have Many Times Startled the World-The Degrees of ,,
 Punishment Noted Out.

The attempt on tho life of President Mckinley recalls to 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 or men and women who have for one motive ana another made themselves assassins or monarehs% statesmen generals ana other public characters. In the case of few, history has condoned their acts; in the their memories. From the upper crust of society to the lowest layer there IS a general abhorrence of the assassin ana the assassin's methods. The attempt on the life of the President has brought out this sentiment anew. The death of King Humbert revealed it, the recent narrow escape of the German Emperor from the cape of the Prince of Wales, now King of England, while in Belgium, also brought 1t to the surface. There is some thing in the assassin's calling essentially cowardly. revealed most forcibly in the history of the origin of the title.
 The word is from the Arabian title Hashshashin and Hashishlyin, the order eaters, so called because the agents SC. lected to do murder were first intoxi- cated with hashish: The Order of the Assassins was founded in Persia by Has san ben Sabbah, about the year l090. 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 mur- ders in blind obedience to the will of their chief. Their religion was com pound of Paganism, Judaism, Christian ity and Mohammedanism. The chief of the sect was known by the title of Old Man of the Mountains. And now out of the doings of this sect the world has the word assassin" with all its terrible has the world a vivid history of the fate of assassins, what has become of those who sped the bullet, the knife or the cup of poison on its way and then faced
 The following are the names of some of the worlds most famous assasslns Brutus. A B. C.: Bagoas, 33S B. C.; John ent. i5ss: Ravaiilac, isio: John Feiton, 162s; Damiens. J757; Charlotte Corday, l793; Bellingham. 1912; Lawrence, 1895; Booth, 1885; Blind. 1S6s;. Kullman, 1872; 1879; "Ivan." 1881; Guiteau, 1881; Fender gast, 1893; Santo. 1894; Angolillo, 1s97 Ar. rsdondo. Is6d lsl; Arnuifo. 4acn 1887; sollnger' illumined with ray of light. Frightful the fate, too, that overlook many of these "unleashers of discord." .--
 slew Artaxerxes III, of Persia, some 3O' years before Christ While he gave tC Persia a new ruler, he was himself thrown into pot of boiling metal and
 
 joined with Caius Cassius in the killing of Caesar did not bring to Rome thai happiness which he believed his act would. The Republic was plunged into war with Anthony. and at Philippi Bru- tus fell upon his own sword, rather then be taken prisoner. Cassius nil self. al the same battle, commanded lis freedmen to slay him so that he might not fall into the hands of the enemy. John of Ger, many was the nephew of Albert l. Elm. peror of Germany. Family feuds were as common then as now, and as the out growth of one of these John drove kptfe through the heart of his uncle. lie was never punished for the crime, althmlgr no hOnors came to him as the result 0: the deed. Thomas a'Becket was assassi- mated but no i'll fate overlook the roble- men, who obeyed orders in this affair
 Gerard Balthasar. the slayer of Will liam. Prince of Orange, In 1884, suffered frighful agonies for his crime.
 He was placed upon the rack and hls joints separated, and then. when they were in the most sensitive cond ton, Ie- turned to their place, and the rack ap- attached to his nose. his ears, and lls arms. Molten lead was permitted to fall in small drops upon his body. F1nally bis body was attached to the legs 3f str JnG horses, and the horses driven at furious speed over the rough roads. One object of this torture was to induce B1lthaGar to confess as to the names ot his co con spirators, but this he failed U do, ms k ing it probable that he alone had deter mined upon the deed.
 Jacques Clement killed Henry IT of France By this it must be said that le rendered great service, and in the end brought to the throne Henry of Navarro. Clement was a half-witted, fanat!cal priest. who believed that Henry was an obstacle in the way of the AdvInG ement of the Catholic Church in the Kingdom He stabbed the King, but lIey ond !mpris- onment. from which he was subsequently released. no punishment came to nim. He escaped with as little suffering ss ;!Id the noblemen employed by Henry lII to as- sassinate the Duke of Guise in the winter of 1889. Except in their own consciences they were never punished. Ravs lilac, though. paid awful penalties I3r the hll- ing of Henry W. In l6l0. Francis Ravail- lac was the second to attempt ti.e life of Henry. In 1594. Jean Chatal attempted 1t and failed. Some histories cunt3In the statement that eighteen efforts were made during Henrys lifetime to take his life, but only two are well chconlcled. Whether Marie de Medicis. tue Queen. or the Spanish party. inspired Ravaillac to kill Henry. will never be ka1wn. he preponderance of proof lies m the direc- ton of the Spanish party, which was anxious to overthrow the ProteStAats of France. with whom Henry vas strong: The King was on his way to the national afa lasad LlUn ha