Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1902-11-21
He FIRED At KING LEOPOLD
BOLD ASSASSIN TAKES THREE
SHOTS AT HIM.
None of Them Took Effect-He Has
Confessed to the Crime and Says
He is Proud of lt-Belongs to the
Anarchist Society-Hopes Someone
EIe Will be More Successful.

Brussels, Nov, 17.-Three shots
were fired at the king OF the Bel
gians as he was proceeding to the
Cathedral 10 attend te deum in menu
DRY of the late Queen Marie Henri
cite. No one was hurt.
The man who fired the shots is an
Italian. He stood in front of the Bank
of Brussels, on the Rue Royale. The
other chambers in his revolver proved
to be blank, and it is presumed those
fired were equally harmless. The
man was arrested Immediately, and
the police had some difficulty in rescu-
ing him from the hands of the crowd.
He gave the name Of Rubino.
Rubino is a bookkeeper. He was
born at Binardino, near Naples, in
1859, and has lately lived in Brussels.
That Rubino intended to assassl-
nate King Leopold seemed fully estab-
lished by the prisoners confession to
the police. The latter at first denied
all the reports to the effect that the
revolver contained ball cartridges, or
that Rubino was connected with an
archism, but they finally admitted
that the prisoner had confessed that
he intended to shoot King Leopold,
and that he had anarchist beliefs.
The self confessed would be regi-
eide is a small, bald headed man with
a heavy black moustache. He main,
tanned perfect calm during his inter-
rogation by the police. He informed
the police that he came from London,
where he went on a futile search for
work. There Rubico obtained assist
ance from the Italian embassy, and
was temporarily engaged to watch an
archists. He was dismissed, however,
as the embassy officials discovered
that he was sympathizing with the
anarchists. 1t was then that he
bought a revolver and cartridges and
came to Brussels.
Failing to find work, Rubino said he
determined to act" and went to the
D.. cathedral with the intention of shoot
ing the king. But he did not fire at
his majesty. for fear of hitting inter-
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ceeded to the Rue Royale, where he
awaited the cortege. The royal car
riage containing the king passed be-
fore Rubino was able to draw his re-
volver, hence the shots only hit the
carriage following.
In Rubino's pocket were found pic
ture post cards bearing portraits of
King Leopold, Prince Albert and Prin-
cess Elizabeth. The prisoner said he
procured the cards so as to be able
to recognize the members of the royal
family.
He expressed the hope that others
would be more successful than him.
self He also said that he did not
regret his act and would have fired
at any monarch, "at the king of Italy
as readily as at the king of the Bel
gians, because monarchs are tyrants
who cause the misery of their peo-
PIES"
Finally Rubino declared he hated
socialists because they were friends
of the police, and asserted that he had
no accomplice.
A fuller investigation satisfied the
police that Rubino really fired a ball
cartridge, the bullet of which smash
ed the window of Comte d'Outre-
monts carriage and grazed the grand
marshaPs face. When removed from
the mob, Rubino was placed in a cab
and Infatuated crowds of people imme-
diately surrounded it and attacked
the vehicle with knives and sticks.
The police had great difficulty in fore
ing way to the police station
through the crowd, which shouted al
ternately, "Kill him." and Long live
the king" The cab was badly hacked
with knives.
A search of the prisoner revealed
package of ball cartridges.