The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-06-05
ATTACK UPON
DREYFUS IN
THE PANTHEON
Outbreak Caused by HOnorS
Paid to the Memory of
lola.
TWO SHOTS FIRED AND
THE MAJOR WOUNDED
INTENSE EXCITEMENT AND
MANY NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
is A NEWSPAPER MAN.

Paris. June 4-Just at the close Of the
ceremonies attending the canonization of
Emile lola in the pantheon today. when
the president of France. the premier and
q host OF ministers OF state were taking
their departure. Louis Anthene GregOris,
military writer OF note, drew a reVOl-
Yer and fired two shots point blank at
Major Alfred Dreyfus, for whose liberty
lola fought and won.
Men distinguished in all walks OF life
filled the pantheon. and when the shots
rang out there was intense excitement.
in fear that the president had been as
sassinated, but even the attempt on the
life Of Major Dreyfus created a profound
impression.
Soldiers speedily surrounded Gregoris
and he was taken 10 Jail, bruised and
bleeding, while his clothes were almost
torn from his body.
Not an Ordinary Fanatic.
The affair has created a tremendous
sensation IN Paris, and the motive of the
WOuld-be assassin is the cause Of much
mystificatiOn. for GregOris. instead of
being an ordinary fanatic, such as is car
ried away by the political passions of the
moment, Is a man of mature age, having
been born in 1876, and was highly esteemed
in the circles where he was known. Al
though born of Italian parents, he has
been an ardent Frenchman for years and
has written authOritatiVely ON military
subjects, gOying close relations with
many high French officers. He was one
OF the correspondents who followed the
big French and German maneuvers, OBJ
tanning data for technical papers. His
friends are at a loss TO understand what
induced him to commit such a foolhardy
act. and many are disposed to question
his statement that he simply shot as an
individual protest against participation of
the army in the ceremonies in the pan
theon.
Tool of Royalists.
Some do not hesitate to express the
opinion that he may have been the tool
of a little clan Of TOyalists who under
the name OF Faction Franchise, have
never ceased 10 insist that the court of
cessation Illegally prevented an appeal
of the Dreyfus case, nor abandoned hope
of seeing a revision favorable 10 the con-
tentiOns of the Nationalists.
Some color is lent 10 this theory by
series of remarkable articles that ap-
peared in this mornings FACTION Fran
Caise from the pens of Charles Maurras
and Leon Daudet, son Of the poet, who are
-1he leading spirits among the TOyalist
supporters OF the restoration of Philippe
of Orleans.
The articles apparently anticipated to-
days event that of MauTras declaring
that there may be rumbling before
the revolution
Daudet wrote: "The real hero will be
Dreyfus. and Dreyfus may ask himself
modern crime will not cOnjure up ter
rible dawn. He has already heard the
stroke Of midnight
Eulogy of Duke of Orleans.
Furthermore. the Soleil. a royalist or
gan this morning printed an entire page
eulogizing the Duke of Orleans accompa-
MED by his picture Other stories are
aflOat 10 the effect that there was an ac-
tual plot of rOyalist Catholic students 10
he
into the Seine last night but that II was
discovered and frustrated. Such rumOrs
however, receive no official confirmation,
and the general public rejects them as
far-fetched and absurd. in view of the
strength Of republican sentiment among
the masses.
Major Dreyfus was not seriously in
1ured A bullet entered his forearm but
did not injure the bone. At late hour
tonight the official statement was made
that his condition was very favorable and
that no complications We're feared.
With regard 10 the rea sons for Gregoris
act the opinion prevails in Paris that
there is much truth IN his avOWal that
he was driven TO the deed by the ap-
peals to hatred with which the anti
semitic papers have been filled since the
government resolved TO place the body
of Zola in the pantheon The state Of
this feeling can De gagged by an inter-
view with Henri RochefOrt. editor of the
Patrie, which is published tonight and IN
Sheer for Dreyfus.
at would have been a glorious death
for Dreyfus. II would have been his first
and only time under fire"
II was definitely established at the re-
construction this afternoon of the scene
in the pantheon that GTegoris fired the
first shot from behind DTeyfus, the ball
penetrating the sleeve OF his coat and
burying itself IN e flower pot at the
base of the catalfalque. When Dreyfus
wheeled at the sound of the defamation
he threw up his left arm over his heart
The second shot was fired point blank
al his breast the bullet entering the wrist
and ranging upward. II was located this
afternoon by means of a kaleidoscope, but
was not extracted.
Matthew Dreyfus, brother Of Major
Dreyfus. who sprang forward to save
him, chivalrously protected GregOris from
the crowd which was raining blows with
canes and umbrellas on the man, shout
ing: 1T is not for you 10 punish: let the
law take its course.
Gregoris made a statement TO the po-
lice directly after his arrest, and during
a second Interrogation tonight he said:
Il did not wish 10 kill Dreyfus. 1t Is
true I aimed al him, but l only wanted
TO Craze him Ny object was to protest