The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-05-10

Preslueht' Inc anarchist agents had
learnt mat every morning she drove TO
me famous MaSasln du Louvre, where
she did her shopping 1t was ar
ranged that d carriage used bv Nine
Carnot, with horses and a coachuan
! mace up TO match, should be in readi-
/ ness.
AS soon as Nine. Garnet had entered
the shop, one of the Comrades was to
/ inform the coachman that his mistress
intended to walk home. and that he
was not TO wait. Having got rid of the
! redi carriage, the other carriage was
! 10 drlVe up. Mime. CarnOt Wouli un-
| suspectingly enter it, and at once ne
driven away to a lonely house at Vile
/ q Away. The president would then be
! informed that unless he signed Henry :
tree pardon by a certain late Nine
! Carnot would be ruthIessiy killed.
| Ii was arranged that this plan was
/ to be executed on May %. tsvl DAYS. il
/ was thought, before the execution q
Henry But a curious custom prevails
IN France. condemned person is kept
/ in ignorance of the date On which he is
! 70 leave the world until the very lrnrn.
/ ing or the execution. This last plan of
the anarchists failed because the au-
I thor1ties suddenly fixed the date Of tile
execution for May q. That morning
Henry<was brought ont to the scaffoId.
A crowd of some 800 persons saw hin,
standing, pale, beneath the grim sba-
gov OF the guliotine. WIKI a great Ct
! Tort he managed to cry out: Com
rades, courage. Vive TAna,chie," As
| ne was flung beneath the l-nife several
/ voices in the thrOne echoed the sinister
| cry, ''Vive PAnarchie."
The anarchists did not allow the
! death of Henry TO go long unavenged.
Among the many agents with whom
| tney correspondent was an Italian
! youth. scarcely % years old. nance
Santo Caserio, who worked with
! baker at Cette, in Italy. In selecting
this man they We're probably Influenced
/ by the fact that his Iabors in the an
/ archlst cause had not attracted to ary
/ alarming extent the attention of the
! police. The task with which they de-
/ cided to entruSt him was nothing less
/ than the assassination of the president
On June "A President CarnOt was to
| open the colonial exhibition at Lyons
! On the evening Of June % Caserio took
| the opportunity to quarrel with his
/ master. who became so enraged that
! he babe him begone at once, and pre-
sented him with 80 fTancs-his wages in
| lieu of notice. With 5 francs of this
| CaseriO purchased a knife, and the fol-
| lowing morning left by train for
/ France. To put the police completely
! off his track he changed at Vienne and
walked the rest of the way
AS he arrived at Lyons President
| Carnot was leaving the municipal ban
/ quoting hall to drive to the theatre
| where gala performance was to be
/ held. The carriage drove slowly, and
/ in the crowd that pressed around it
/ CaseriO. UnobseTved. found a place
Allowing the sheath to drop to the
| ground. he approached the carriage
| with the naked knife hidden under his
| cloak. People were shaking hands with
| the chief magistrate of the republic as
| the carriage rolled slowly down the Rue
| de la Republique Caserio. pressing
| forward, seized the presidents hand as
| if 10 shake it. Then: jumping on the
! step. he leant forward. and drove the
| knife hlt deep into the unfortunate
/ presidents body. Three hours later
/ President Carnot died.
! CaseriO was nearly lynched by the in
| furiated mob. and only with difficulty
! escaped at their hands to die two
months later beneath the knife of the
/ guillotine. At the end his terror was
painful to witness, and he had to be
! pushed up TO the scaffold. But none
] the less he remained faithful to his
/ cause, and though every effort was
made to extract from him the names
of those persons who urged him to the
/ criae, he stoutly refused to open his
/ lips.
A curious incident marked his last
! moments. As he was led from the
/ prison an unknown voice from one of
! the cells cried out, 'Vive TAnarchie,"
and as his head fell the same direful
words issued again from behind the
( strong walls of the goal
! The effect of this execution was to re-
/ double the intensity of the Terror"
and to drive the anarchists to increased
activity. In Rome not only the Italian
/ journalists, but the English correspond
( ents were warned that they would be
| killed if they continued writing against
the propaganda of anarchism. One of
them. a journalist named Bandi, after
receiving numerous anonymous mes
sages, was found fOulIy murdered. For
the honor of the profession of the pen
| ii should be mentioned that not a sin
gle writer for the press was deferred
from continuing to do his duty by this
abomnable deed.
Some idea of the terror that existed
may be gathered from the fact that in
the course of three months. in Italy
alone, $500 anarchists were imprisoned,
and this number does not include those
persons suspected of anarchism who
/ had been taken into custody and sub
sequentiy released.
Every day all over Europe men sus-
pected of the slightest connection with
anarchism in any form were locked up.
As always, the secret societies met
force with force. Night after night the
sentinels of Toulon arsenal were at
tackled. At Nish, i'm Austria, a man
known as Baron Stormberg, actually
conspired with one of the employees in
the royal machine factory for the man
ufacture of bombs in the factory itself.
Several French warships were stimuli
taneously attacked by anarchists, who
found recruits even among the crews.
Every day threatening letters were left
in the rooms of the Elysee to inform
the new president that his death had
been decreed. and every day plots anG
| conspiracies for the wholesale massa-
ere of officials and the servants of the
state were brought to light by the po-
| lice.
| 1t should be remarked as strange
| and Illuminating fact that not until the
| authorities relaxed their militant at
/ lacks an anarchism. owing to the pub
| lie apathy that succeeded the universal
| horror aroused by President Carnots
death did the anarchists themselves