The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-07
DEATH COMES
TO DOUMER, AS
FRANCE MOURNS
French President RegainS
Consciousness Only
Few Moments.
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police officials, including Paul
Guichard, director Of the Paris
municipal police.
A stranger had entered the Roth
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, ac-
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 revolver and
fired a bullet point blank into
Doumer's fral 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
cronum.
Doumer's arms moved forward in
stinctively in one, quick, desperate
molten. 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. Ferrere was
wounded slightly in the forearm as
Gorgouloff emptied his gun. But
Ferrere 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 Gorgouloff.
He was kicked and beaten before
Guichard and his aids dragged him
away. News of the attack spread
swiftly, and soon a crowd formed
outside the mansion, demanding
that the Russian be lynched.
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 a desperate effort begun
to save his life.
He was losing blood rapidly. Ur-
gent messages assembled the best
doctors and surgeons in France to
his beside.
Russian Offers Blood
The Russian Youths Federation
of anti Bolshevik exiles sent its
president to the hospital, on in
structions of Grand Duke Andre, to
offer his blood for transfusions.
Since it was a Russian who shot
M. Doumer, we Russians are anxi-
Gus to offer our blood" the youths
president, Kasemby, said.
Physicians selected a young in
terne to give blood for the trans
fusions.
The assassination, on the eve OF
the legislative election campaign,
in which the nationalist spirit has
been reawakened, caused numerous
outburstS against foreigners. The
clubs and cafes of MontparlaSSe,
usually given over to carefree
revels, boiled over with anti-foreign
sentiment and many foreigners IN
fortunate enough to be caught out
side their homes were jeered or
handled roughly.
The papal nuncio and the Able /
Verac were among the visitors to
the hospital Doumer, who was a
protestant, did not receive extreme
JUNCTION.
Tragedies Marked Life
A man born Of the most humble
circumstances, Paul Doumer built
his personal and political life on
such foundation of schooling that
at "A he reached Frances peak
the presidency. But interspersed
in the busy, quiet years were set
backs and tragedies sufficient to
make OF him almost a forlorn fig
ure, even in the moment of his trl-
umphs.
His greatest tragedy was the loss
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