The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-09-03
MONAHCHS AND
Tue ASSASSINS

The present Emperor of Austria has
twice escaped the assassin IS hand
once in 1882, when the soldier Over
dank suffered the extreme penalty of
the law, and once, on February Is,
1853, when, walking on the ramparts of
Vienna, he was stabbed from behind
by the Hungarian Libenyi and severely
wounded in the head.
Twice ere its tragic end was the life
of King Humbert of Italy attempted,
the first time being at Naples, in 1873,
mantle approached the Kings carriage
with the apparent intention of present
ing a petition. He held a small flag in
his left hand, and, as the monarch lean
ed forward, struck at him through it
with dagger. His majesty promptly
hit the wouldbe regicide across the
head with his s-eathed sword, and the
Premier, Signor Carroll, throwing him
self in,front of his master to intercept
second stroke, was slightly wounded.
William l of Germany three times
narrowly escaped assassination. The
1861, while out walking, he was fred
at from behind by Oscar Becker, the
bullet inficting slight wound in his
neck, and in May, 1873, he was the OBJ
ject of one Hodel's cowardly attack.
Three weeks later DIR. Karl Nobiling, a
professor of philology, fred at his EN-
peror with a double barreled gun, load
ed with shot, from shop window over
looking the Inter den Linden. Over
thirty pellets lodged in his majesty Is
arm, neck and shoulders.
Thrice also was Napoleon III in like
peril of his life, the attempts of
Pianori and Bellemare, April and Sep
TENDER, 1855, preceding by less than
three years that of Orsini and his ac-
completes, when, although the Emperor
escaped, two persons were killed and
many wounded by the explosion of the
shells which We're flung at the royal
carriage as it drew up at the door of
the Italian Opera.
Louise Philippe bore a charmed life
seven times did he, as it were by a
miracle, escape a violent death. Though
forty persons were either killed or
wounded by Fieschi s Internal machine.
he was unscathed; though Alibaud
thrust the muzzle of his walking stick
gun through the carriage window, ere
the trigger was pulled, he was struck
only by the wadding; though he was in
full view of Henri when he fred the
pistol, the bullets missed their mark
Our late Queen was on seven differ
ent occasions the object of bastard IS
| attack. As far back as 1910 Edward
Oxford, demented potboy, fred twice
at his sovereign, two years later John
! Francis was transported for life for a
like crime, while month had barely
elapsed ere the boy Bean was found
guilty of having presented pistol
loaded with powder and wadding, Gin
contempt of the Queen, and to the ter
ror of divers liege subjects
Seven years afterward man named
! Hamilton fired at her majesty. while
| the next year an ex-captain of hus
| sars cat her face open with cane. II
| 1872 she was threatened by Arthur
| O'Connor, a youth of Is, with an I'M
loaded pistol, and in 1882 she was shot
at as she was entering her carriage al
| Windsor Castle by Frederick Maclean
| Numerous unsuccessful attempts pre-
| coded the heinour crime of March Is
1881, when Alexander II of Russia lost
| his life, while the existence of his sol
| was blighted by the constant dread OF
assassination. Thrice within a month
| alone was his life IN fearful jeopardy
| On March IS, 1887, a man. was arrested
| almost in the very act of hurting
| bomb at the imperial carriage; on thu
| 29th, while walking to the Gatehin;