Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-06-05
[)REYF()S
Is Shot at Twice and Again.
Becomes Center Of
French Limeliqht
Incident Occurred at Canon.
izatiOn Of zOla's Bones
---Causing Sensation

Paris, June Aust at the close Of
the ceremonies attending the canoni-
cation of Emile lola in the Pantheon
today, when the president of France,
the premier and a host of ministers
of state were taking their departure,
Louis Anthehene Gregori, military
writer Of note, drew revolver 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 ex-
element in fear that the president
had been assassinated, but even the
attempt on the life of Major Dreyfus
created profound impression. Sol
diers speedily surrounded Gregori and
he was taken to jail, bruised and
bleeding, with his clothes almost torn
from his back.
The affair has created tremendous
sensation in Paris, and the motive OF
the would-be assassin is the cause of
much mystifcation, for Gregori, In
stead of being an ordinary fanatic,
such as is carried away by the politi-
cal passions of the moment, is a man
of mature age, having been born in
1874, and was highly esteemed in cir
Giles where he was known. Although
born of italian parents, he has been
an ardent Frenchman for years and
has written authoritatively on mill
tary subjects, enjoying close relations
| with many high French officers. He
was one of the correspondents who
followed the big French and German
maneuvers for obtaining 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 in protest against the
participation of the army in ceremo-
MES attending the placing of the
ashes Of lola in the Pantheon. Some
do not hesitate to express the opinion
i that he may have been the tool of a
little clan of royalists who, under the
name of Faction Franchise, having
never ceased to insist that the court
of cessation Illegally prevented an
appeal of the Dreyfus case, nor aban-
doned hope of seeing revision favor
| able to the contentious of the nation
alists.
BY the shooting of Dreyfus, they
point out, the whole affair may be
indirectly reopened before July, be-
cause the assassination or attempted
assassination must come before the
assizes court for trial Some color is
1 lent to this theory by series of re-
/ markable articles that appeared in
this mornings Faction Franchise from
the pens of Charles Mauras and Leo
/ Daudel, son of the poet, who are lead
ing spirits among royalist supporters
for the restoration of Philippe of Or
j leans.
The articles declare that there
maye be rumbling before the revo-
luton Daudel wrote: 1.-THE real
hero WILDE Dreyfus, and Dreyfus may
ask himself whether this nocturnal
gloriffcation of modern crime will not
conjure up terrible dawn. He has
already heard the stroke of mid
/ night
Furthermore, Soleil, the royalist
organ, this morning printed an entire
page eulogizing the duke, accompa-
MED by his picture. Other stories are
afioat to the effect that there was an
/ actual plot of royalist Catholic stu
dents to dump the hearse containing
zola's body into the Seine last night
but that it was discovered and frus-
4 trated. Such rumors, however. re-
ceived no official confirmation. and
the general public rejects them as
Il far fetched and absurd, in view Of
the strength of republican sentiment
among the masses.
! Major Dreyfus was not seriously
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