The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1908-02-17
HISTORIC MURDERS.
Crimes of Past Have Changed
Trend of Worlds Events.

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Step by step throughout the r
worlds history assassination has C
been a factor in determining the a
course of events and in the @
of the life of nations. c
Frequently the assassin's weap 4
on which sent a ruler to death {
has sent upon the worlds stage {
a successor whose career set IT
revocably milestones upon the
pathway of the peoples OF the
world. Especially was this true IN :
those days when conquest was
the guiding star of the rulers OF
the world.
Probably one Of the nost i'm
% )rtant and early assassinatlons
Was that of Phillip of Macedon,
which occurred in the year 536
&. G.. Not only did it terminate
the career OF one of the most re-
mark able men of his times, but it
led to the accession of Alexander
the Great, IN event which very
likely would not have taken place
at all had Phillip continued 70
rule and had himself selects d
the successor to his throne.
Philip of Mucedon then was at
the hight of his power. and the
battle of ChaerOnea had made
Tim The undispnted master Of
! Greece. When leaving the theatre
in which his sis ter had been unit
ed in marriage to Alexander,
King Of Epirus, a man sprang to-
ward the ruler and thrust
sharp, short sword into his side.
AS the assassin ran toward q
S gift horse his sandal caught il
yinestock and his pursuers XIII
ed him with their spears and
tore him to pieces.
: Olympias, his former wife, was
said to have aided in the conspir
acy. This assassination, enc o
the earliest in point of time, bor'
} a strong resem blaBce in its sur
! roLndings to that which claimed
D President Abraham Lincoln
II life. In both cases tl.are Is a.
u individual murderer, the seen
/ was theatre, the act was dom
IL with incredible audacity in thu
& presence of large concourse c
?: people, and the murderer wa
crippled by a misstep after th
ID fatal blow.
re In the history Of ancient Rom
III there stands but one political az
g sassination which marks the fir;
y occasion on record in which tn
H. conflicting economical interest
of different classes in a repI bl
we're settled by resort to tn
weapon of the assassin. TIL
was the murder of Tiberir
u Gracious, which was soon TO
y lowed by the enforced suicide
~ his brother, Caius Gracious
~ This deed was the direct resu
of the formers attempt to e
"O force an agrarian law passed ;
st an act of justice to the poort
st classes of Roman citizens.
W In the turmoil that attendt
0p the voting of the tribes Tiberi'
< was struck down to death by OF
u of his own colleagues, a. tribul
of the people. This chapter
III death was written in 1873 B.
History has dealt at length vi
'ls the assassination of Julius Caes
III on the Ides of March-the f
- teenth of the mODth-in the We
Al B c., and of the import
q this event in the history of a
Gent Rome.
'e' At the time Of the assassinati
ns of julius Caesar the Roman pt
pie had reached a degree of pc
''' versity and degeneracy alms
,S impossible of modern comp
'"' tension. His death had a me-
"p demoraliz;ng effect upon the p
Gu pie. The hand of the mast
6' who might have controlled
eunruly masses and restrain
81 The nobility lay palsird in dea
Later events had their ma
nc" spring from this source and
&C" years from 81 to 6e A. D., w
""' marked by the assassinations
IVY. Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius {
VI Nero.
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