The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-01-16

Madrid.-As King Alfonso, Dowager
Queen Christina and the court were
returning from church recently a man,
who afterward gave his name as Feito,
fired pistol at one of the carriages
in the royal procession. The bullet
went wild and no one was injured. The
king heard the shot and put his head
out of the carriage window, but he
was Immediately dragged back into his
seat by the queen mother. The escort
of civil guards threw themselves upon
the would be assassin and overpower-
ed him.
Feito was taken to the police sta
ton, where he said he did not desire
to kill the queen, but the grand cham
berlain, the duke of Sotomayor, at
whose carriage he had aimed. He
was searched and in his pockets were
found unmailed letters marked Regis
tered" and addressed to President
Roosevelt, King Edward, the emperor
of Germany and the president of the
high court of justice at Mexico, and
also the receipts for a number of reg
istered letters and a visiting card of
the mayor of Madrid.
Feito was later put under examina-
ton by a magistrate, to whom he re-
peated his statement as to the object
of his shooting. He insisted that he
was not an anarchist and said that his
wife, a French woman, had confined
him in lunatic asylum. The prisoner,
in making this statement, did not ap-
a.
that he is insane.
The minister OF the interior has tel
egraphed to the perfect in the provin-
ces that the attempt was directed
= against the grand chamberlain and
= not against the king.
A police sergeant, who was the first
. to seize Feito, makes the following
statement:
;. after the kings carriage had pass
= ed, FeitO, who was standing in front
y. of me, raised a pistol and fired at the
- second carriage in the procession. Be
fore he could fire a second time
- struck him with my sword. He cried;
~ You wish to kill me, but l seek the
" life of the duke of Sotomayor, who is
- the cause of. all my troubles ThC
J. duke of Sotomayor, however, was no
in the second carriage. 1t was occu
= pied by the marquis de Lemina, the
- court grand equerry, and two palace
~ officials"
y. 1t is the custom of the Spanish
- court to attend divine services ever.
Saturday at the Church of Atocha
~ This church, however, is being rebuilt
- and the king now goes to the Churcl
- of Buen Suceso. On these occasion
- the court rides in state, preceded anC
- followed by mounted detachments o
- the royal body guard and accompanies
= by carriages containing the court dig
nitaries and grandees of Spain.
After the shooting incident tn
., people gathered along the route iron
- the church to the palace and gave tn
~ king a great ovation as the carriag
~ proceeded slowly toward the royal res
!. idence. The project of Madrid, VIII
was in the last carriage, left the pre-
- ccssion and gave orders for Feito t
- be taken to the police station.
Feito is "a years of age and wa
- born at Posatdas. He returned t
~ Spain from Mexico last June. He wa
. slightly cut in the head by the polio
sergeants sword.
- Questioned as to what reason h
- had for wishing to kill the gran
% chamberlain, Feito said the duke {
~ Sotomayor had promised him a pos
10 ton at the palace, but had failed I
~ fulfil his promise.