Chase After a Would Be Assassin.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 183, 18 December 1886, Page 13

Chase After a Would Be Assassin.

Tlihlluo Boifisy d'Anglais, Paris, which is om< of iho most frequented streets leading to tho Champ i Elysees from the Rue dv Fau bouru Hfe. Honoro and the Boulevard Maleshorbos, waa tho othor night the scene of an attempted assassination perpotratGd under rather dramatic circumstances. At No. 14 of that street there is a tobacconist's shop, kept by a widow, Madame Koux, who was sitting at hor counter alone at about eleven o'clock, when an individual whom eho formerly know by the name of Baron Didier, and who had always inspired her with fear, suddenly entered, and, stretching out his hand, said. " Why, tnadame, don't you remember mo ?" Bofore Madame Koux, who is a woman of about 40, had time to rep y, tho aßsassin slipped a long knife from up his sleeve and struck hor peveral blows with it in tho neck and chest. Madame Roux, though soriously wouded, screamed out lustily, " Murder ! i Murder !" and succeeded in reaching the door leading into the street. The porter of a neighbouring house happened to be passing, and caught Madame Koux just as sho left the shop and was falling exhausted on the pavement, At tho same moment the assailant also rushed out of the shop, he, too, crying "Murder! Murder!" but he hud been aeen by M. Pages, a gentleman of independent mcanp, who ran after him cryinn " Thief !" The assassin was by thit moans captured, and takon to the policestation, where ho declared ho had been himeelf attacked, and that the wounds on his hands and the blood on hig clothes came from his attempt to disarm his aggressor. This story was so contrary to all appearances and 1o the testimony of everyone that - the doctor having declared the man's version impossible— he was taken under good escort to Madame Roux hou^e whore he was confronted with hU victim She recognised him immodmtely, and, though very weak from the loss of blood, related what had happened. The man, whom Bhe had known as Baron Didier, and who is simply a gaol bird nailed Cluudo Demangeot, was forced to confese the truth, and has of course, been kept in custody. He had only the same morning been released from the Gaillon Prison, whore he had undergone a term of 13 months' impiisonmenfc. The condition of the victim is very serious. The wounds in the neck and chest are deep and long ; but the would-be assassin struck his victim in the back as sho was rushing out of her shop, and the wound then inflicted ia far more serious than the others, for the assailant struck with t?uch mad rage that the blado of the lony knifo snapped, and was left sticking in the wound.