RULERS WHO COURT ASSASSINAION

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 85, 30 March 1908, Page 4

RULERS WHO COURT ASSASSINAION

iliat some twenty rulers, elective as . as hereditary, have been assassin•licit within the past forty years, is largely due to a bravery which in sonic hardin":. '' ll ' S, ' ly fool-

Tl "' late King Carlos „| I'urtugal. for knew jhtUtUv \V4'll that •* plot against his dynasty i,ad been hatched by desperate men, who would stick at nothing l„ accomplish their cuds *e! he drove through his capital to his death in an open carriage, taking scarce. I; 1 even the most ordinary precautions. iiw unhappy Tsar Alexander 01 Kussia, again, was named, urged: implored even, not to venture forth on tno day he was blown to nieces InI ; mim1 '- , l;m n'tii-.,! t«. li^U'ii; i'lliT tlir |jr-| explosion. insisted quitting iii- to seu to the w'(»im«k*d. instead of driving straight home, with the result that lie met the death lie might, almost 1„, Sil jd to liave voluntarily .sought.

tllm ' was «'»<! of I'resideiil .UeKmley, who could not be dissuaded ! from shaking hands with all tlie ray I tng, and bobtail of iiu/lalo, althouW. irarnod by Ins secret police that lie was linking |,i 4 ]j| ( , j n V() .Similarly. President Carnot. might be alive to-dav had h<! followed t-lie advice of 31. Casi-n.ir-l'cricr, ami retrained from L'oiiiL' to by.ins on that fatal day in .Juno, 18! H. Kill? Humbert »ih warned, not once [nit many times, of the imminent danger ne whs in after the political crisis,)! ■Tune IHth, 111110. ~t we tind him. onlv -in week.- later, driving uneseorteil amongst Ihe fanati-al and turbulent populace of Monza, where he was fatallv • ||

<>»■ CO,MM.. 11,,,,. are exception*. Ki.w Alloiwi. tor instance, chose to drive to church 1.1 eel married in a nteel-dad. bomb-proof ,-oacl,. T o which wis,. caution is ,luo tin- fact- that he and lii(pieen ai',. alive to-dav.