ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF PRINCE BISMARCK.

Globe, Volume II, Issue 111, 8 October 1874, Page 3

ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF PRINCE BISMARCK.

The following is an account of the attempted assassination of Prince Bismarck: — ‘•On 13th July, at Kissengen, where he was staying, the Prince emerged from his house and took his seat in the carriage. He was accompanied by Dr Diruff, the box being oc copied by a valet. The carriage left the garden surrounding the villa, and entered the street. A short, thick-set man, in the garb of a Roman priest, stepped before the horses; the coachman, calling out to the intruder, desired him to stand aside. The priest at first did not seem to notice the warnings of the coachman, but eventually left the road, and, moving rapidly along the footpath, kept up with the carriage. Fifty paces further on he again stepped into the road right before the carriage. Taking off his hat to pay his respects to the Prince, he caused the latter to give the military salute in return, At this moment the carriage, in its onward course, had so far proceeded as to bring Prince Bismarck almost parallel with the individual in the road. In another instant, and while the priest was still loitering

about before the horses, the man drew a pistol from his pocket, and, deliberately taking aim, fired at the Prince at a few paces distance. The man being to the left of the carriage, the Prince having raised his right hand in saluting, the bullet, grazed the palm just below the thumb. The shot had no sooner been fired than the coachman, fearing a second shot, struck the assassin right across the face with the lash of his whip. Upon this, flinging away the pistol, the man ran for his life. The piiest decamped the moment the shot was fired, the few spectators on the spot hardly realising what had happened. In suppressed excitement the Prince ordered the coachman to drive home. White the Prince was entering the villa the news of the startling event spread among the people in the street. A cry of indignation arcs", and several gentle, men ran in the direction in which the assassin had fled. They found him struggling in the grasp of a gentleman who, having witnessed the whole scene from a distance, intercepted the assassin as he was endeavoring to escape. There seems to be no doubt that, but for the many fashionable elements contained in a Kissengen crowd in midsummer, the criminal would have been lynched on the spot. The street in front of the Prince’s villa meanwhile resounded with hurrahs The Prince appeared a moment on the balcony, and then descending the stairs, joined the crowd outside. Having spent a short time in the doorway, the Prince withdrew. He, however, appeared again half an hour later, when he drove to the prison to have a private interview with his intended murderer. On this occasion his arm was in a sling. Doming home he received Herr Lcderer, who captured the assassin, and thanked him heartily for his timely aid. A torchlight procession in the true German style closed the day. Edward Kullman, Bismark’s assailant, is a journeyman cooper, twenty 3 cars old, a Roman Catholic, and member of several religious societies, and a native of Magdeburg. His father is a huckster, selling dried fish in the lower neighborhood of Magdeburg. His mother has been in a lunatic asylum at Halle for the last year. Edward, the would-be assassin, at the age of fourteen, was apprenticed to a master cooper in his native city. Upon the expiration of his term of four years, he travelled for a year or so, working in different cities at his trade, as is the custom of the Gorman workmen. He then returned to Magdeburg, and soon after, in company with some dissolute comrades, attacked his late master in the street, stabbing and wounding him, though not dangerously, for which he was sent to prison for three months. After this be went to Sahzwedel, where he joined the Catholic Journeymen’s Society, and three months ago he disappeared without leaving any clue behind him. He is described as a remarkably stolid fellow, coarse, cool, and determined. At the interview with Prince Bismarck, after the deed, he is stated *-o have openly avowed his intention to kill the man, who, in his opinion, is injuring the Pope, and oppressing the Church. He is also reported to have said in prison that he had accomplices who knew what ho was about to do, a statement apparently borne out by a slip of paper found on his person, containing Bismarck’s address at Kissengen, in elegant writing. The priest who stepped before the horses at the critical moment, Ind was also arrested a few hours later, had been seen promenading up and down in front of Bismarck’s villa, in Kullraan’s company, for an hour and a-half before the attempt These and other symptoms indicating the existence of a conspiracy have caused a number of the police to bo sent to Kissengen to protect the Chancellor from a repetition of the murderous attack.”