AŢEMPTED Assassination.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8140, 2 June 1906, Page 5

AŢEMPTED Assassination.

♦— The King.and Qm, en ot Spain. Wedding Festivities Interrupted. Bomb Thrown at Royal Carriage. •Several Persons lOUed. A Sensational Escape.

. <By Electric Telegraph -Copyright), (ier Iress Association.) Tlif \ ii • • June 1. i> -f. p f- lc ] of Toledo, the Rt v „ ! nu - of Westminster, and other Kin \ S if° atcd :it tbe redding of -Kmg Aifonso and Princess Ena to-day hriihw WaS ? , miirv ellous pageant m vast t U K l ') ns^llie 111 the presence of « tumultuously enthusiastic crowds. Chu cW S q l ° r ie Pakce from tbe iirnioJ ■ i T ? cronnuo cl Real, the Calle Mayor. tcm P (, rarily m the ( >nS < !!f l " etS l i' VTer ? shower ed from balcpmWl m * \ e bouses > but one conw\ a S ec • omb ' which exploded Wl H nght aiKl the h ndermost horses and the front wheels oMhe iloyal carriage. ®^pl°s io n was terrific. killed a groom and two horses and damaged the carriage; also slightly voundmg the_ Marquis of Sottomayor, the equerry riding on the right. it also killed a lieutenant standing at if salute and four soldiers lining the route, and decapitated a police bugler, esides killing two female spectators and injuring numbers. lhe|Duke of Cornmachuelos, rushing o the opened door of the carriage, dragged out King Alfonso and then 1 rmcess Ena, who exhibited great emotion. Both reached the palace uninjured. _ A strange feature of tbe occurrence is that the bomb was thrown from the only house owned by the Queen Mother and which was bequeathed to her by a philanthropist. L.he building was let as a grocery shop on the ground floor, with a boarding establisnrnent above. The attempt, which marred the wedding, was on the anniversary of the Paris attempt on the life of K ing xiifonso. The supposed bomb thrower, Manuel Ptiran. a well-dressed Catalonian, and many others were arrested. Messages of sympathy and congratulations were received at the Pakce from all countries. The populace was furious, and nearly lynched several foreigners, including a French detective suspected, during the confusion of the authorship of the outrage. At the moment of the explosion, recovering himself immediately. King Alfonso spoke through the broken windows of the carriage and enquired what the damage was. He forthwith sent an orderly to reassure Princesses Beatrice and Christina, and raising his voice ordered the procession to proceed. Princess Ena was deathly pale, but smiled courageously as soon as King j Aifonso and Princess Victoria were j helped out. _ _ j They continued their journey in another coach. Princess Ena broke down on reaching the palace. The courtiers pressed forward, but King Alfonso waved them back and tenderly supported his weeping wife. The Prince of Wales' carriage was some distance ahead of that of King Alfonso.

A (*ni)i Warning. Some of the Victims. Widesp rfijif] Sy mpal liy• Received June 2, at 8.-11. a.m. LONDON. June 1. Iv n fr Alfonso was warned that he would-be killed within half an hour of his marriage. . The scene of the explosion was a very narrow street in a most respectable quarter within a few hundred yards of the Palace. . , The Marque.se Toloseand her daughter were among those killed. The children of the Italian Ambassador narrowly escaped. Jvm° r Alfonso attended the funeials of the victims of the explosion. Oueen Ena is suffering from shock. London'and others cities, the lope and all the Sovereigns telegraphed their sympathies. | The Assassin. Not Yet Captured. /Received Jane 2, at 8.44 am.) (Keccne maDß id, June 1. j Some people were on tnefta. floor of the balcony. ■nnrn.n was lately Lis b°l''» vc '" hot^ 0 U1 °" r p"t r ator of living i" Lon . do "; h £ to not vet the outrage, iho „ <>d lhot D „ ra „, arrested, i - tQV hurling the alias Mateo - changc d bouquet conceal „, co nfusion. his hat, and escaped i h me o£ a Ho left behind a has »un London maker. June 1. i i cl-iies a number of Tl,e 'ft London for Mafo,;,,»n am. • W the assasdr„l on- b.ituul J different pomtb 'rol of the vmldmg protLr«r U» "»»» fruitlessly. \ (A'atitudo r * n ' thd hltl " S Escape. liepr«*fr" Sfoisurcs. Beceivetl 1. Tk« d ° rain 'o i ; c n °„ t £ gratftnTa'^e

f lb ,\ S intor P rete cl as a good and. sovereigns' happiness aii 1 pam 8 P ros Penfcy, flmi Papers agree that it is high _ r i s ? c . 1 ® energetic measures to evnW J f, r . 0m the danger of high •An!i, IVC|l VC | ! n , g into the h ands of Anaichists and homicides. They also urge reconsideration of the laws and attitudes towards secret societies. Hie Daily Telegraph's Madrid corespondent says three officers, seven men, and five spectators were killed, and a hundred were more or less seriously injured. An Englishman named Eoberts has c*; 11 detained at Madrid on suspicion ot being an accomplice. On June Ist last year, King Alfonso was paying a visit to Paris. After midnight he was returning from the opera in a carriage with President i-joubert. When opposite the Louvre a chemist's assistant threw a bomb at the carnage, but fortunately it exploded before it reached its objective. Three policemen and a woman and child were injured. King Alfonso's courageous bearing on this occasion was cheered by the crowd which gathered.