Arizona republican., 1914-06-22
TRIAL OF ORSINI AND OTHERS

pn JdHudTy II, loooI all dltelipt was made in Paris upon the life of tEe emperor. Napoleon H., by Felix crsini, an Italian, and other con spirators. leading among whom were Pierri, Rudio and Gomez. Three shells were exploded, two persons Were killed and many wounded.
 Pierri denied all knowledge of the conspiracy until the day before the attempt was made and said that he repented and took no part in the act. Gomez, the servant of Orsini, knew nothing of what was to be done until the last moment. Ruido confessed everything and inculpat ed the othe.s. lie confessed that lie had thrown one bomb himself.
 Orsini acknowledged his participa- tion and declared that he had intend GU to kill the empero.. His fixed idea, from his youth, he said. had been the deliverance of Italy and vengeance upon the Austrians. When the French landed at Rome he was he looked for from the emperor and he resolved that he must be killed
 At first Orsini had intended to make the attempt alone, but seeing the impossibility of approaching the emperor, he had taken others into the scheme. When he was arrested he had resolved not to speak of his confederates, but when he found that they had betrayed him he gave way to a feeling of vengeance.
 Allsop, the Englishman, who had aided him in procuring the manufac- ture of the bombs and under whose name and with whose passport he had entered France, did not know that the bombs were intended to be used to kill the emperor, but sup posed that they were to be used in Italy.
 At the trial Orsini was defended by M, Jules Favre who in his speech read a letter from the prisoner to the emperor: The dispositions which l have made against myself, says Orsini, are sufficient to send me to the scaffold, and I shall sub init to my fate without asking par con, both because I will not humili- ate myself before him who has de- stroyed the reviving liberty of my unhappy country, and because in the situation in which 1 am now placed. death for me will be d relief"
 The trial consumed only the better pat of the day and all of the pris- Cners were found guilty. Gomez. with eXtenuating circumstances con- sidered, was sentenced to hard labor for life. The others were condemn- ed to death.
 The sentence of Rudio was sub sequently committed Orsni and Pi erri were executed by the guillotine cn the 18th of March, the former meeting his fate with much dignity and firmness, while the latte- be- trayed tokens of great querulousness.
 At the time of the attempt to as sasslnate the emperor, Napoleon III and the empress were on their WAY to the theater. The intended vic tlms were unhurt, but Orsini himself was wounded and was at once ar rested. Besides the letter the assas sin addressed to the empe.or re- questing that he take up the cause of Italian liberty he wrote another to the youth of Italy, stigmatizine political assassination
 The importance of Orsini's attempt on the life of Napoleon IT. lies in the fact that it terrified him. and he came to believe that unless he took up the Italian cause other attempts would follow and that sooner or later he would be assassinated. This rear contributed not a little to the emperor's subsequent Italian policy As an illustration of the g-eat in- | terest in this case, thousands of people would assemble every mornin. before daylight near the prison ol La Roquette to be present at the execution of Orsini, no definite date having been fixed
 Just prior to his execution. Orsini wrote respectful letter to the pro cureu' general. acknowledging the equitable and honorable conduct oj the court that tried him, and of tho jury that found him guilty, as vel as to the perfect liberty accorded to his counsel
 It is said the heads of both Orsin and Pierri were steeped in vitrio after death that no prying Madame Tussaud or insinuating Claudei might photograph the features Gomez and Rudio were shipped of to Senegal, from which they were earned to the swamp of Cayenne which although less speedy, are as rcmorseless instruments of destruc- ton as the guillotine, which they congratulated themselves on escap-