Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-06-05
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injured The bullet entered his fore
arm, but did not injure the bone. At
T late hour tonight an official state,
ment was made that his condition was
favorable and that no complications
were feared.
With regard to the reasons for
Gregori's action, the opinion prevails
in Paris that there is much truth in
his avowal that he was driven to the
Ideed by appeals to hatred with which
the anti-eSmitic papers have been
filled since the government resolved
to place the body Of lola in the Pan
theon. The state of this feeling can
be cleaned by an interview with
Henri Rochefort, editor of the Patri,
which is published tonight, and in
which he says:
cit 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 in the Pantheon that Gregori
fired the first shot from behind Drey-
fus, the ball penetrating the sleeve Of
his coat and burying itself in flower
Ipot at the base Of the catafalque.
When Dreyfus wheeled at the sound
Iof the defamation he threw up his left
arm over his heart. The second shot
was fired point blank at his breast,
the bullet entering his wrist and rang
ing upward. It was located this aft
ernoon by means of the X-ray, but it
was not extracted.
Mathieu Dreyfus, a brother of Ma
jor Dreyfus, who sprang forward to
save him, chiyalrously protected Gre
gori from the crowd which was rain
!, ing blows with canes and umbrellas
on the man, shouting, ut is not for us
to punish; let the law take its course. !"
Gregori made a statement to the po-
lice directly after his arrest, and dur
ing the second interrogation tonight
he said: Il did not wish to kill Drey-
fus. It is true aimed at him, but
only wanted to Craze him. My object
was to protest against the participa-
ton OF the army in the glorifcation OF
lola and the rehabilitation Of Drey.
fus. My blow was aimed less at Drey
4 fus than at Dreyfusism.'
/ In describing the scene before the
magistrate, Matthew Dreyfus said thai
/ at the sound Of the first shot he shout
il ed at Gregori, asking il the revolver
| was loaded. Gregori replied in thu
I negative as he pressed the trigger ;
second time. Other witnesses test
fed that the noticed Gregori's suspi
u cious movements as he pressed for
! ward In the throng. He was frmblinl
in his coat pocket and as Dreyfu
]; passed him he ducked between tn
!. legs of bystanders and arose and fire
at the majors back.
During the day the police mad
several hundred arrests, but no sc
rious Importance is attached to these
for the prisoners are mostly student
and rowdies, who took part in numel
GUS street brawls.
4 A curious feature Of the ceremonie
: in the Pantheon was the absence &
many of the foreign ambassadors.
is understood that the Turkish an
bassador was the prime mover in til
/. plan to induce members of the dipl,
2 matte corps to abstain from going t
5 the Pantheon.
OIL Rumors were afioat of possibl
b trouble, and a feeling that the Frenc
o people were divided on the issue e,
S ercised considerable influence in til
50 matter.
l0l The Turkish ambassador won ovs
the Japanese ambassador, Baron X
runO, and later succeeded in inducin
,. Sir Francis Brittle, the British amba
2 sador, to remain away. Prince We
2 Radolin, the German ambassador, r
]; Trained from attending the cerem
MES, fearing that the sight OF a Gle
man uniform might provoke insu1
2. from the rabble.
3 Henry White, the American ambs
4 sador. who was present, said: