President Carnot'a Assassination

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 24, 28 July 1894, Page 4

President Carnot'a Assassination

LATEST PARTICULARS OP THE DASTARDLY ACT. (PBS PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, July 20. The following particulars of the assaßsination ot* President (Jarnot came to hand per 'Frisco mail: — Ai 9.25 o'clock at night M. Carnoi started for the Theatre, where a gala performance was being held in honor of his presence. The cartilage was driven slowly along in front of the Palais de Commence, then turned into Eve de La Kepublique, still foi lowing the facade ot the JPaiui* When half way down the stree -which was lined with enthusiastic crowds of people, who were louulcheering, a man rushed out ot the crowd and sprang upon tbe step 01 the President's landau. Just at tui<moment Carnot was waving his hands and saluting with his hat in response to an ovation. The people close to the carriage saw thai the man standing on the step had in his hand v bright blade gleaming in the aii. As the assassin's aim decended, Fresi dent Carnot was seen to fail back icj his seat, his face deathly pale. On. of his hands was pressed to his hear, where the steel had entered the bodj M. Kivand, the Prefect of Lyons who was seated at the side of M. Oarnot, immediately struck the assassiu v blow full in the face, and knocked him from the step, thus preventing the man from stabbing the President again, which it was his evident iuteu tion to do. Instantly, cries of "Le President est assizine mort a Passis sin " were heard on every side. The crowd in the vicinity of the carriage swelled to enormous proportions, every member of it seemingly bent upon killing the assassin. He was grasped by a dozen hands, and his life would then and there have paid the penalty of his crime had it not been for several sergeants-de-ville, who seized him and attempted to draw him away from his captors. Blows were directed at his face. He was raised over the shoulders of the police, who had by by this time received reinforcements. In the meantime the news of the attempted murder spread with rapidity. Mounted guards vwre sent to aid the police The crowd gave way before tbe horses, and a cordon was formed round the police and their cap tive. Physicians were summoned to the President, and they declared that bis condition was hopeless. The President lay unconscious. His shirt was covered on the left side, just over the heart, by a large blood stain which extended to bis wound, and which was in the region of the Jiver. Internal heininorage set in shortly after midnight. A minute later ho ynlpbed for breath : there was a convulsive shuddering of the body, and the President of France was dead.