The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-05
DREYFUS SHOT; PARIS UPR0AR French Army Man Will
 Recover. JOURNALIST USES THE PISTOL Sensational Scene Occurs at the
 Pantheon. Great Throng Had Assembled to Honor Remains of zela When Gresoris Assaults Devils Island
 Prisoner.
JOURNALIST USES THE PISTOL

Paris. June 4-Just at the close of the ceremonies attending the canoniza- fion of Emile Zoia in the Pantheon to- day, when the President of France, the state were taking their departure, Louis Anthehne Gregori, military writer of note. drew revolver and fred two shots point blar.- at Major Alfred Dreyfus, for whose liberty Zola fought and won.
 Men distinguished ip 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 pro- found impression.
 Soldiers immediately surrounded Gre gori, and he was taken to jail, bruised - and bleeding, with his clothes almost torn from his back. The affair has created a tremendous sensation in Paris and the motive of the would-be assassin has been the cause of much mystification. for Gregori. instead of being an ordinary fanatic. such as is carried away by the political passions of the moment, Is a man of mature age, having been born in 1S44, and was highly esteemed in the circles where he was known. Although born of Ital-- ian parents. he has been an ardent Frenchman for years, and has written
  enjoying close relations with many high French officers. He was one of the correspondents who followed the big French and German manouvres for obtainfg data for technical papers.
 Act PuExIes Friends.
 His friends are at a loss to under stand what induced Aim to commit such a fooihardy act, and many are disposed to question his statement that he sim ply shot as an individual in protest against the participation of the army in the ceremonies attending the plac-< ing of the ashes of zoIa in the Pan- theon.
 Some do not hesitate to express the opinion that he may have been the tool of little clan of Royalists, who, un- der the name of ''LfAction Franchise" have never ceased to insist that the court of cessation illegally prevented an appeal of the Dreyfus case. nor aban- don hope of seeing q revision favor able to the contentious of the Nation aIists.
 By the shooting of NJ Dreyfus. they point out, the whole affair may be in- directly opened before July. because z assassination or attempted assassina- tion must come before the Assize Court for trial. Some color is lent to this theory by series of remarkable ar ticles that appeared in this mornings "LAction Francaise," the organ of the group from the pens of Charles Maur- ras and Leon Dauden. son of the poet who are the leading spirits among the Royalist supporters of the restoration of Philippe. of Orleans.
 The article apparently anticipated today's event, that of Maurras declaring that there may be a rumbling before the revolution"
 Daudet wrote:
 The real hero will be Dreyfus, and Dreyfus may ask himself whether this nocturnal gloEthcation of modern crime will not conjure up a terrible dawn. He has already heard the stroke of midnight"
 Furthermore, The Soleil, a Royalist organ this morning printed an entire page eulofgizing the Duke of Orleans, accompanied by his picture.
 Other stories are afloat to the effect that there was an actual plot of Roy alist Catholic students, to dump the hearse containing Zola's body, Into the Seine last night. but that it was dis covered 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.
 Injuries Not Serious.
 Major Dreyfus was not seriously n- tured. A bullet entered his forearm, but did not injure the bone. At a late l hour tonight the official statement was made that his condition was very fa- 1 vorable and that no complications were | feared.
 With regard to the reason for Gre- gori's act the opinion prevails in Paris | that there is much truth In his avowal | that he was driven to the deed by the appeals to hatred with which the anti Semitic papers have been filled since | the government resolved to place the | body of zola In tlfe Pantheon. The | kt.fa an interview with Henri Rochefort, ed itor of The Patrie. which Is published | tonight and in which he says.
 "It would have been a glorious death | for Dreyfus. It would have been his | first and only time under fire.'
 It was definitely established at the | reconstruction this afternoon of the | scene Tn the Pantheon that Gregori | the first shot from behind Dreyfus the | ball penetrating the sleeve of his coat | and burying itself in a flower pot at | the base of the catafaique. When | Drevfus wheeled at the sound of the | detonation he threw up his left arm | over his hsart The second shot was | fired point blank at his breast the bull l let entering the wrist and ranging up- | ward It was located this afternoon | by means of radioscope, but was not | extracted.
 Mathieu Dreyfus, the brother of Ma 5or Dreyfus, who sprang forward to save him. chivalrously protected Gre gori from the crowd which was raining | blows with canes and umbrellas on the | man, shouting, Tt is not for us to punish; let the law take it's course"
 Gregori made statement to the po- | lice directly after his arrest and du- ring second Interrogation tonight he | said:
 T did not wish. to kill Dreyfus. It is true aimed at him but I only want ed to graze him. My object was to | protest against the participation of the army in the glorifieation of Zola and | the rehabilitation s of Dreyfus. My | hlow was aimed less at Dreyfus than at Dreyfusism."
 During the day the police made sev- erai hundred arrests but no serious i'm | porsance is attached to these, for the | prisoners are mostly students and | EoWdies who took part in numerous |
 rawls.