The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-07

DeOSlOe.
Doumer died without being able
to speak to his relatives and col
laborators. Shortly before midnight,
however, he rallied sufficiently to
ask weakly what had happened to
him.
The president was told that he
had been in an automobile accident.
Strange" he murmured. II don't
remember anything"
Professor Gosset, one Of the physi-
clans who attended the President,
told the United Press, I'VE did ev-
erything science allows to prolong
his life. We performed a lumbar
puncture and sustained the heart
with camphor oil. The president
died without realizing his terrible
wounds"
Injections of morphine had been
given to save the president from in
tense pain. He was conscious,
physicians said, for only four min
utes between the time bullet
sent him crumbling into the arms
of two of his ministers and the
time that death came as he lay in a
white iron bed in small room on
the first floor of the Beaujon hos
pital. public institution.
Nine. Doumer left the hospital at
5 a. m, leaning heavily on the
arm of her daughter, Nine. Emery.
Fashionable Crowd Present
The attack was one OF the most
sensational in the history Of French
politics. The gentle and popular
president, who lost four sons in the
World war in defense of France,
had gone to the RothSchild mansion
to attend a book sale for the benefit
of war veterans, the Apres Midi du
Livre des Anciens CombattantS, the
book afternoon benefit for war
veterans.
A fashionable crowd filed the
gorgeous salons of the Rothschild
home. Leaders of society were
there, members of the government
who accompanied the president and
police officials, including Paul
Guichard, director of the Paris
municipal police.
A stranger had entered the Roths-
child home some time before the
president arrived. He walked briskly
to the entrance of the mansion and
was gone inside Immediately. The
man, DR.. Paul Gorgouloff, obviously
was nervous, and paced rapidly back
and forth.
Soon the president entered, &C
companied by his party. Guichard
was one step ahead of Doumer. The
buzz of conversation was hushed as
those in charge of the book sale
moved forward, smiling, to greet the
president.
Gorgouloff advanced toward
Doumer. He drew a revolver and
fired a bullet point blank into
Doumer's frail body The impact
sent the president whirling.
Fires Second Time
A second time the assassin fired.
The bullet entered the presidents
head, below the left ear, and
penetrated to the base of the
Uranium.
Doumer's arms moved forward in
stinctively in one, quick, desperate
motion. Then he collapsed into the
arms of Francois Pietri, minister of
national defense, and Champetier
de RIDES, minister of pensions.
The crowd became excited, but
the cooler heads acted quickly and
rushed Gorgouloff. Guichard Crap
pied with the assassin as he fired
again. The bullet shattered the po-
lice officials wrist.
Claude Farrere, president Of the
Authors League Of France, seized
the Russians arm. Farrere was
wounded slightly in the forearm as
Gorgouloff emptied his gun. But
Farrere and Guichard chung to the
Russian and finally hurled him to
the floor.
Kicked by ThrOng
The crowd, now free from panic,
but hysterical with rage, closed in
and attempted to seize Gorgoulof.
He was kicked and beaten before
Guichard and his aids dragged him
away.
He was placed in a limousine, but
a crowd at the place Saint Philippe
du Roule surrounded the car,
shouting, kill him, give him to us.
The chauffeur was forced to speed
up the car and knock some of the
mob out of the way. The Russians
eyes were almost shut and his face
was discolored from blows he re-
ceived.
While the Russian was held in
chains at the central police sta
ton and told his story in the man
ner Of a mailman, Doumer had been
taken across the street to the hos
pital and desperate effort begun
to save his life.
He was losing blood rapidly. Ur-
gent messages assembled the best