Arizona republican., 1914-04-11
TRIAL OF CARNOTS ASSASSIN

On June A. 1894, President Carnot was assassinated while driving through the streets of Lyons, France. At the time he was visiting the French city, where an exposition was being held. On the evening he was assassinated he was being driven to the Grand theater, where a gala per formance was to be given in his honor. Just as his landau was pass ing the Palace of Commerce, an Ital- ian named Caesar Giovanni Santo sprang upon the step of the vehicle and, drawing dagger, stabbed the president in the heart The murderer was mediately seized by the crowd and before the police could rescue him the clothing was literally torn from his body
 Members of the presidents party proceeded to the theater and an- nounced to the audience that an at tempt had been made on the life of the president The audience was dis missed, and with such anger that the Italians in every part of the city were
 
 houses were demolished
 Santo was taken to the Palace of Justice and was closely questioned as to his accomplices but succeeded in convincing the police that he was alone guilty, having only arrived in the city on the afternoon of the fatal day about o'clock. after walk of mi nnl ln more than six hours after he arrived that the deed was committed.
 The examination of Santo began on Monday, July ,, and continued through the better part of the week. The prisoner was defiant under the serious charge against him. When. on July 3, he was confronted in court Try the gunsmith who had sold him the dagger with which he killed the French president, the prisoner was asked if he regretted his crime, to which he answered. Never and, as if the absurdity of the question had struck him, he burst into laughter.
 The regulay trial of the prisoner did not take place until August and
 
 tWenty-four hours. The hearing was held at the assiZe court at Lyons. The presiding judge was NJ. Beuillac. The officers who were at the scene of the tragedy were called upon to give evidence and were followed by wit nesses who took part in the arrest of Santo, who testified that the as in iCtG in tn aG cape. To this the prisoner remarked insolently: T am sorry that l left my weapon behind 1 would have used it against those who arrested me"
 Santo was found guilty and sen fenced to die on the morning of Au- gust g. Only one witness was ex amined on that day. Leblanc, the sol dier who was a fellow prisoner of Santos at Marseilles. who testified that the prisoner had told him that he intended to kill President Carnot, perhaps at Lyons.
 When the testimony was all in, the public prosecutor began his speech, which was eloquent in it's denuncla- tion of anarchism The prisoner S counsel. M. Dehreuil, then began his appeal for the prisoner, which lasted half an hour, basing his defense on three points: First, that there was lunacy in the prisoners family; sec ond, his anarchistic surroundings' the impossibility of reconciling the prisoners religious life with the pre- meditated attempt at murder.
 When the jury finally went out there was considerable excited con versation as to how long it would require them to come to d verdict They were only out a quarter of an hour Instantly they had gone Santo was removed to his cell be- meath the courthouse. But he had hardly reached that place before he was summoned to return to near his fate. There was deep silence as the verdict was translated to the proisoner, who received the sentence with q smile of cynical contempt. When the judge told him that. ac- cording to law, he had three days to appeal to the court of cessation, to this Santo returned a scornful shout Of ''Vive la Sociale Revolution On August sentence was passed that he should die within ten days. The execution took place at 4:56 o'clock on the morning of August 16. The previous day the prisoner spent his time in reading Don QuiXote." The execution occurred in the square called Cours Suchet
 When Santo emerged from his cell he trembled and had to be assisted to the scaffold His face was deadly pale. As he was being fastened down he cried "Vive L'Anarchie!" His death was instantaneous, and there was no unnecessary demon- stration. Although the city was full of strangers. the police had entirely cleared the streets near the scene of execution so that there Were hardly q score of onlookers to see the end of the murderer of President Carnot of France.