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not known where the bullets went. Wit
nesses imagine that they lost themselves
IN the trees in R~othschild's garden near by.
The incident In nowise affected the festivi-
ties OF the rest Of the day or evening. It
remains for the police to verify Maille's
papers, since II 10 possible that he may
have had wrong ones.
Investigation has satisfied the authorities
that Maille ia merely q crazy man. who is
under the delusion that he has been un-
Justly treated In litigation, and who set out
to get even with the public authorities.
He disclaimed any intention to attack M.
Fallieres. and said he aimed at no indi-
vidual. merely firing his revolver to draw
attention to himself because various legal
actions had gone against him, as he be-
lievod unjustly.
Attendants at the Rouen railway station
state that when he left there his %nervous
ness and agitation attracted attention.
Maille declares that he Ii simply an I'M
happy man. whom the loss upjustly Of
various processes had exasperated to a
degree beyond all expression. He denied
cstegorically and absolutely any attempt
against the President Of the republic.
ROME, July 1.-THE news OF the attempt
upon the life OF President Fallieres was
autographed to the Vatican at ? o'clock this
afternoon and was mt once communicated
to the Pope, who was shocked and panied.
He said:
Poor France, how many troubles she
has"
Then deeply moved, he went To his ora
tory and spent a long time in prayer.
TIx,nan< hrnnan1 Eall,Aras NINA alantal
President of France on January II. 1906.
Like Presidents Faure n Loubet before
him, he came up from the people. His
father was secretary to a justice of the
peace in Mezin, Department of lot 1T
Caronne. where Fallieres was born in Is4i.
He practised law, entered the Chamber of
Deputies in 1879 and had been Minister Of
Interior, Of Justice and Of Public Instruc-
ton and President Of the Senate prior
to his election to succeed Loubet.
He was the first man selected 10y Presi-
dent Sadi Carnot for Prime Minister. hut
was unable to form a Cabinet that suited
him. He has always been immensely popu-
lar with the French peasantry.
He IL famous for his easy, good nature,
which makes him at home with all his peo-
pie; he has modest social tastes and punctual
ndDlbS u dtlenuink 10 DlSlue~S, WHICH,
Senator Clemenceau long ago predicted
would bring him to the Elysee in an arm
chair He is an orator Of great skill.
Physically he Is very stout a feature ex-
plotted TO the full 10y the ~cartoonists
The only French President to die by
assassination was Sadi Garnet. In 1894 an
Italian anarchist Stable him at Lyons.
The Carnot administration had been marked
by the serio-comic attempt to overthrow
the Third Republic of which Gen. Bou-
LANCER was the figurehead.
On August 10. 1906. the police AT Mar
seilles arrested an Italian anarchist of the
name of Cirillo Francese. a cobbler. on
suspicion that he was in a plot to assassinate
President Fallieres on his approaching visit
TO the Marseilles exposition. In Francese's
lodgings were found bomb accessories, but
for want Of evidence he was released and
expelled from the country. At the time
the plot was believed to he connected with
the attempt on the lives of King Alfonso
and Queen Victoria in Madrid.
When King Alfonso made a state visit
IL Paris in 1905 a bomb was thrown at a
carriage in which he was riding with Presi-
dent Loubet in the Bots do Boulogne on
June 1. Neither of the rulers was injured.
This act was undoubtedly the product of
an anarchist plot.