The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-07-14
NJ. MILLERAND
ESCAPES SHOT
OF ASSASSIN
French President Unframed
When Anarchist Fires Into
Carriage of Police Project
Attempt Anticipated.
PARADE IN CONFUSION
BY WEBB MILLER
UNITED Press Correspondent) i.

PARIS, July 14.-An attempt was
made to assassinate President Mile
rand of France today on the Champs
Elysee, as he was returning from a
military review held in connection
with the celebration of Bastile day.
CASTOR Bouvet, %, who fired three
shots into an automobile in which he
thought Millerand was riding, was ar
rested after an attempt was made to
lynch him.
Bouvet confessed he was an anarch-
ist, and that he intended to kill the
president
The shots were fired into the auto
mobile bearing Chief of Police Nau-
dins whic hfollowed 100 meters behind
Millerand's open carriage.
Naudins was not hit by the bullets.
The attack on Millerand was antici-
pated. Paris newspapers yesterday
sounded the warning that an attempt
on the life of the president was likely
today, following inflammatory articles
carried in the radical press
Eyewitness Account
The secretary of President Millerand
gave the United Press the following
eyewitness account of the attempted
assassination:
President Millerand was riding in
an open carriage about 100 meters
ahead Of an automobile bearing Chief
of Police Naudins.
Naudins' automobile was just turn
ing from the crowded Champs Elysee
into Avenue Marigny towards the resi-
dence of Millerand
A man stepped out of the crowd
with a pistol in his hand. Three shots
~
Thousands surged upon the attempt
ed assassin. He was knocked down.
trampled and beaten Police rescued
MIN from those intent upon taking his
life and hurried him off to prison.
Part of the crowd rushed back to
the carriage containing the president.
Stay back. They're trying to shoot
you! Was the warning that came to
Mlllerand from hundreds of persons"
Parade In -onfusion
A troop of black colonials galloped
between the carriage of Millerand and
Naudins' automobile down the Champs
ElySee when Bouvet fired the shots
The sudden reports of the pistol
threw the parade, which was returning
from Longchamps, into confusion. The
horses pranced in the wide thorough
fare as the cavalrymen tried to rein
their mounts toward the scene of the
shooting.
AS the news of the attempt on the
life of Millerand spread throughout
Paris. which was celebrating bastiIe
day, its national holiday, hundreds of
thousands rushed down the Champs
Elysee toward the presidents resi-
dence. Soldiers and police formed a
Gordon he ;a1
idence.
The attempt to assassinate Miller.
and was made while Paris was cele-
brating The anniversary of the fall OF
the bastile in 1889, which marked the
overthrow of the monarchy.
The bastile, In which countless
atrocities had been committed bv des-
pots OF France was completely de-
stroyed
Big Celebration
Celebration Of bastile day in France
is similar to Independence Day cele-
brated in the United States.
! CASTOR Bouvet was released from
/ prison In April after conviction on
charges OF suborning troops to DISC
bedience. In statment to police later
ne repud1ated the confession that he
tried to assassinate Millerand. He
said he only intended to start a dem
onstration and that he did not intend
to kill any one.
| Twenty-four cartridges were found
in his pockets.
Bouvets was founder and proprietor
OF an anarchistic newspaper. One
policeman was injured by the crowd
that attempted to lynch Bouvet. An
arm OF Marie DuCamp was scared by
one OF the bullets fired by Bouvet