ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION IN PARIS.

Evening Post, Issue 137, 17 July 1865, Page 2

ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION IN PARIS.

The Gazette dcs Tribunaux gives the following account of the murderous attack on one of the secretaries at the Russain Legation ; " Great excitement was caused in the Rue de Grenelle-Saint-Germain on Monday afternoon, by a report that a murder had been attempted at the Russian embassy in that street. A large crowd soon collected, and the circulation of carriages was for a time impossible. The .following are the facts of the case :— About two o'clock a well-dressed man went to the embassy and, asked .to speak with the ambassador's secretary. He had scarcely been introduced intoihe office when the cries of ' Murder !' were heard. The people of the embassy hastened to the spot, and met a man armed with a dagger, whom they attempted to stop, but he stabbed two of them, and made his escape for the moment. On entering the office'tho secretary was found near his desk covered with hloo^d, having received five wounds, two of which "were in the region of the heart. The sergeants of de ville on duty in the quarter soon arrived, and on searching the premises found the assassin in a dark passage, and took him to the police station in the Rue de Varennes, having great difficulty ifltttfOtecting him from the vengeance of the Nothing has yet transpired as to the Jfljijjttves of the would-be-murderer. He is a foreigner, beyond all doubt, about twentyseven years of age, and apparently belonging to a respectable class of society. The wounds of the two persons who were stabbed by th c assassin while attempting to escape do not present any danger." The name of the attache thus murderously assaulted is De Balsh. The assassin, formerly a lieutenant in the Russian army, is named Nikitenko. I>r. Nelaton, who is [a attendance on the victim, hopes tUat lie mft> recover.