The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-15
2 SHOTS FIRED AT PALLIERES
EX-NAVAL GUNNER TRIES TO KILL
FRENCH PRESIDENT.
Aim Bsd and No One Hit-Crewd Furiousiy
Attacks shooter. VINO May ne Insane
Hunt for Anarchist Backers Anti
Mmtary Mob Mars Pafriwaic Fete.

Attacks shooter. VINO May ne Insane
Hum for Anarchist Backeru Anti
Mmtsry Msb Mars Pafrissic Fete.
Special Cabis Despatch 10 TIE SUN.
PARIS. July 1.-THE celebration OF ths
achievement of French liberty was marred
to-day by an attempt ON the life Of President
Fslheres. On his return from the military
display at the Longchamp ~racecourse.
a mar fred two shots at him near the
Elysee gardens. Both missed the President.
1t is possible that il was the work Of
anarchists, but it is believed. almost with
certainty. that the act was that Of a tunatic.
b man was Immediately arrested. No
harm came to anybody except the sssailant
himself. h was roughly used both by
the police and bystanders Immediately his
identity was recognized.
The great review Of thousands Of troops
had passed successfully and quietly at
L~ongchsmp. The frantic appeals Of tbs
anti-miitarist Herve and the Confedera-
ton Of Labor to their followers to mako
| trouble at Longchamp had been futile. Even
the presence near the entrances to the
course Of negroes bearing huge placards
across their breasts bidding the spectators
to remember the Narbonne shooting and
~eulogizing the mutinous Seventeenth Regi-
ment did not affect the crowds. who merely
looked at the placards and passed on to
watch the review. which was made addi-
tionally spectacular this year by tbs
maneuvres Of a dirigible war balloon. ths
Patrie. above the field snd an engineers
balloon anchored for observation.
When the rsview was finished President
Fallieres. Prime Minister Ciemenceau and
NJ. Lene, secretary OF NJ. Fallieres. entered
the Presidents carriage to return to the
Palace OF the Elysee. As usual. the Avenue
Bots de Boulogne and the Champs Ulysses
and the whole route homeward were
thronged with people assembled to watch
the return. When the Presidential car
riage approached. some scores OF indi-
viduals. who up TO that time had been in
distinguishable from the rest Of the crowd
in the Avenue Bots de Boulogne. stimuli
taneously spread across their breasts
Hervist badges and cried:
Down with Ciemenceau! Down with the
Narbonne massacrer! Long live the Seven
teenth Regiment! Down with the armyi"
The Presidential cortege was passing at a
lively trot and paid no heed to these cries.
but the spectators immediately turned
upon the disturbers, aiming blows with
canes and umbrellas at them, and shouted
in a mighty chorus: Long live the army
Elaborate police precautions had been
taken the whole length of the route. as
well as at Longchamp. to provide for just
such an emergency or any other. Tn
police precipitated themselves in numbers
upon the Hervists and arrested forty-ons
Of them forthwith. Of whom thirty-four
were held at the Commssiariat.
tt Presidential cortege in the mean
while passed along and traversed the
Champs Elysees and turned into the Ave-
nue. Marigny. which was ined on both sides
with throngs awaiting the President. Men.
women and children. whole families. we're
out together. standing or seated aicnS tbs
whole length of the avenue from the Champs
Elysees to the ~Faubourg st. Hono-e. hs
usual at such functions. NJ. Lepine. Project
of Police, was in a carriage preceding that
of the President.
just as the latter reached a point opposite
the gardens OF tho Elys6o an ordinAry
looking man. who had been seated on tbs
curb. arose. NJ. Fallieres, as il happened.
had just turned toward that sidewalk how
ing to tho crowd, The man suddenly
pulled n revolver from his coat pocket
and fired.
The sound OF the shot wrought ccnsterna-
ton amid the throng. Those nearest tho
shooter had barely time to turn and ses
that it was really he who had fired whei
he discharged a second shot.
A policeman who was standing almost
at his side threw himself upon the man.
Instantly detectives. who were thick among
the spectators. came TO the policeman's
mid. The man made no resistance. but
stood on the edge of the sidewalk with tbs
smoking revolver still in his hand
The crowd, some VI whom had tried to
flee ~in-panic at the shots. Immediately
closed in, endeavoring to strike the culprit.
Some succeeded. The police then had to
defend the prisoner from the crowds
anger. He went interestingly to jail.
The revolver used was so small az to be
almost regarded az a toy. II is AZ inches
long and in Of I5-iOO Of an inch cslibre.
1t is a six shooter. -Four bullets remained
in IL.
Inc OfuCtfs dbJcfUutflB IItslNcHl EtlHettS
Immediately closed around the ca rriag &c at
the first shot. NJ. Fsllieres was little moved.
He smiled and said he was not hurt. The
cortege proceeded to the palace without
further commotion.
The prisoner at the Commissarist refused
TO give any information concerning himself,
saying that he would only talk 20 the Judge
of Instruction, as IL was a matter between
himself and the State which could not be-
understood by any one present. The COM
misssry concluded that he was unbs lanoed
mentally.
A search revealed that the prisoner had
five francs and q ticket for luggage left at
the st. Iazsre railway station. Nothing
more WAS found on him. He was dressed
like a workman In his Sunday clothes, bur
with a shirt slightly soiled.
His baggage proved to be a broken trunk
containing plenty Of cartridges for the
revolver. clothing and papers revealing
the owner as Jean Marie Maillc, a sailor.
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