Show I v I i GARNOT lS5A55INATED Stabbed to the Heart in a Carriage by an Italian Anarchist MURDERER CAUGHT u GENDARMES Only Hard Work of the Police Prevents 4 the People from Tearing Kim to Pieces t Sensation When he Tragedy Was A rrotiuced to the Public Carnots Ijant Words Were Addressed to the Surgeons Who Were Proh in the Vouiit1I am Going iTnyFte Assassin Refnhes to Give and Rcne > on for His I ATvfnl Work Merely Sajingr That He Would Spctilc Only Before ul Trihuunl Shudder of Horror i Throughout France Lyons I rance June 24The most inI terse exciterhnt has been caused everywhere where in France by what will probably probab-ly prove a successful attempt to assassinate sassinate President Carnot The president was AisSting Lyons in I connection with the international exhibition exhi-bition I Upon his arrival he was tendered a I 4 I r4 fr4 PRESIDENT CAnNOT reception at the prefecture after which v he visited the exhibition After spending spend-ing some time at the exhibition he pro eeded to the palais de commerce where a banquet was given in his hon gven or orAt At 925 oclock tonight President Car not started for the theatre where a gala performance was to be given because be-cause of his presence in the city l Several cage were in the proces T Y ion the first one being occupied by the I president Carnots carriage was driven slowly along in front of the palace of commerce com-merce and then turned Into Rue de la Republique still following the facade of the palais When half way down t the street which was lined with enthusiastic enthus-iastic crowds of people who were loudly loud-ly cheering a man rushed out of the crowd and sprang upon the steps of the presidents landau The Gleam of Steel Just at this moment M Carnot wa saving s-aving his right hand and saluting r with his hat in his left hand in response fc to the ovation that was being given t I t him by the crowd The people close to the carriage saw the man standing on the step had a knife in his hand I L f 3 > the glare of the electric lights TT they saw the bright blade gleaming in I t the air as the assassins arm descended I and then President Carnot was seen to S fall back into his seat his face deathly I pale One of his hands was pressed to his I heart where the steel had entered the M Rivaud prefect of Lyons who was seated by President Oarnot immediate Iv struck the assassin a blow full in I the face and knocked him from the step thus preventing the man from I fetabbing the president again which I was his evident intention to do Instantfy cries of Le presidents I ossassine Mort 1 est assassin were heard on every side and the erovd in the vicinity of the carriage swelled to enormous proportions every mem1 her of At seemingly fcrtent upon killing the assassin He was grasped by aj dozen hands and his life would have then and there paid the penalty of his crime had i not been for several ser geants de vie who see him and attempted to draw him away from I his captors This was found to be impossible im-possible as tne infuriated populace i was determined to aynch the man All efforts of the sergeants availed uoth irg beyond saving the mar from instant < in-stant death Blows were aimed at his face and he was raised over the shoulders shoul-ders of the police who had by this time received reinforcements and many of the blows landed fairly At length the police succeeded in driving the howling mob back a fot or s from their prisoner but to get the captive through the crowd was a physical impossibility Struggle for Life In tUve meantime the news of the attempted at-tempted murder had spread with light ninglike rapidity and mounted guards were edrt to the aid of the police who were struggling t preserve the life of the assassin te assn Wit drawn sabres in their hands the guards rode down into the crvxvd heedless of whom the horses trampled upon The crowd gave way before Una horses and at lat the center of the mob was reached Then a cordon was formed around the almost exhausted policemen and their captive a their I i jnainSi ito 1 police sstaltion began i Even thus surrounded the prisoner was not safe for men In the crowd made frantic efforts ito reach him rn The guards repelled these attacks with tfreflalt sides of their swords at he t same Sme keeping watchful eyes upon thecrdwd t prevent the prisoner from i being shot Maledictions were hurled I upoieCtyea evei before has r such a wild indignation against a human hu-man being been seen in this city Kit Condition Hopeless In the meantime physicians were immediately im-mediately summoned t the president who bad immediately been conveyed to the prefecture A careful examination examina-tion was made of the wound and the ton mae doctors declared the condition of I Ca nol inpeles The news of the assassination caused a great sensation aT the Grand theatre Which the hch was filled to the walls by Cit of Lyons The theatre presented a brilliant scene the handsome toilettes toi-lettes of tae ladle being offset by the gay uniforms of the many military officers present All were waiting with impatience the arrival of the president and all were unable to understand the delay Suddenly a man entered the theatre crying at the top of his voice The president has been assassinated The moat intense excitement rollowed this abrupt announcement Women screamed and several fainted Many men without waiting for their hats ran out of the building in order to confirm con-firm the news They found all the streets leading I to the palace filled with excited throng and in a few minutes they w r convinced the report of the attempt on the life of the president was true Suddenly through the throng sped a landau conveying Andrian Dupuy a I I brother of the prime minister Deputy Chaudey and Prefect Rivaud the crowd giving way before the carriage i j as it dashed into the Rue de la Re1 lique preceded by four mounted gen d armes The crowd thinking now the report of the assassination was untrue and that the president VDS in the cari I riage shouted Vive Carnot vive la1 I republique The carriage was stopped and M Chaudey and Rivaud in tremulous t voices said Dont shout the presii I dent has been the victim of an outrage i i I Cheers Turned to Curses The cheers were instantly turned to curses and many and loud were the cries for vengeance The landau proceeded pro-ceeded to the theatre where it arrived and 11 Chiudey went to the presidents box As soon as they were seen the whole audience arose and amid profound pro-found silence M Rivaud said in a voice broken with sobs The president presi-dent has just been assassinated This announcement was received with a terrible explosion of fury by the audience au-dience when the first report of the assassination as-sassination reached them had generally discredited it The theatre reaour Isd with shouts of a la mort l assassin assas-sin and cries for vengeance upon him In the Rue de la Republique a miscreant mis-creant under pretext of presenting a petition stabbed M Carnot with a dagger 11 Rivaud was again interrupted with shouts of Death to the murderer murerer reven e revenue revenge Waving his hands for silence 1I Rivaud again spoke saying Do not make my mission more painful pain-ful We left M Carnot in the hands of doctors You understand that under these conditions our hearts are filled with sorrow and that the proposed performance in the presidents honor rna Ir cannot take place j J Performance Postponed J j The audience then left the building many of them proceeding at once to the prefecture where they stosd hi the streets waiting for any report that might be vouchsafed them from the building and discussing the crime they considired had cast disgrace upon the fair fame of their city The Assassin The assassin Is an Italian named Ce sare Giovanni Santo issue5 The following bulletin has just been 1ssueThe The state of the president of the republic is alarming but not hopeless The wound is in the region of the liver The hemorrhage which was at first i copious has now ceased After examining the presidents i wounds all the physicians in attendance attend-ance upon him agreed that an op ration ra-tion was necessary whereupon Dr Oil yer probed the wound While this was being done 11 Carnot came to his senses and said feebly but distinctly How you are hurting me Thedoctor however continued Or attend at-tend the wound th2 outflow of blood outW hlo of vhch had stoppel They knew thong that the presidents condition was extremely rave as they more than expected that internal hemiiirhaire had commenced After 11 Carnot had been taken from his carriage and placsl upon a bed in the prefecture nobody but the doctors end the officers of his military household house-hold who had accompanied him to Lyons Ly-ons were allowei to enter the room Vhl he had bfii place l Santo the assassin is a beardless young man 20 or 25 years old When arrested he was attired in a brown suit and wore a peaked cap that matched the suit in color As he marched under police guard from the Rue de la Re publique to the station he held his head down but his eyes glanced fur Uvelv around as though he was seeking seek-ing an opportunity to escape To have made such an attempt however would have been the height of folly unl she s-he desired to commit suicide for there is not the slightest doubt had he got away from the protection of the police he would have been torn limb from limb by the crowd whose every action showed they were thirty for his blood When the police party reached the Palace des Cordiales they were obliged to stop while the landau in which were General Bonus the prefect the mayor and the wounded president escorted es-corted by a detacCvment if mI dads d-ads on a gallop was driven rapidly past e route to the prefe A second carriage conveying the officers of the presidents military Household followed close behind An Associated Press reporter entered a third carriage in which were M Bar deau exminister f Inanx and Senator Sen-ator Milaud On arnvcng at the pre fedture General Borius and the mayor alighted President Cam at lay unconscious un-conscious upon the cusnions of the carriage car-riage His eyes ware closed His waistcoat was unbuttoned and his shirt on which tire bright r cord of the Legion of Honor was conspicuous was covered on the left side just over the heart by a large blood stain wfhich extended to the hip i wa impossible to tell from his appearance whether he was dead or alive The crowd surged about in the vicinity vi-cinity of the carriage but the mounted guards and the foot police held them in check some distance from the landau I I dan in which tlhfe president w lying ly-ing Many were tlhe expressions of pity I for the president and anger at his as sissinatlcn General Bonus the prefect pre-fect and mayor assisted toy a number c attendants lifted M Oarnot from the carriage and carried him a easily I a possible to a room on the first floor of bedDr the prefecture and laid him on a I Dr GaJlleton who is mayor o Lyoriit I then examined the wound I Refuses to Talk I Santo who speaks French badly when questioned by Prefect Lepin at the police station In Rue Moliere said he ba lived at Gette department of Perault for the past six months and I had only come to Lyons today He I gave his age as 22 His replies were I I given J coolly but without a sign 4 of J 1 > bravado He refused however to answer many oj the questions put to him regarding his motive for stabbing the president declaring that on this subject he would speak only before a tribunal When he was searched by the police a book was found in one of his pockets in which i was written that he had been born in a village in the province of Milan Italy M Carnots lat speech was delivered at the banquet given in his honor He dwelt upon the success of the exhibition exhibi-tion and said the same heart beats in all French breasts when it is known the honor security of rights of the country are at stake This same union of all Frenchmen formed a guarantee of the march towards progress and justIce to which it belonged to France to give an example to the world The Death Bert Shortly after midnight the archbishop arch-bishop of Lyons was summoned to the bedside of the dying president t administer ad-minister to him the last rites of the church He was in the room but a short time when he retired to an adjoining ad-joining room He remained until 1230 oclock and he was again summoned to the presidents room where he administered admin-istered the sacrament M Carnot remained re-mained conscious to the last He realized re-alized that his life was rapidly ebbing away and twice he said Je men vais I am going away Dr Poncet leaned over the t and said to him Your friends are here monsieur le president M Carnot replied re-plied I am grateful for their presence pres-ence and a minute later he gasped for I breath there was a convulsive shuddering I dering of his body and the president of France was dead i The bed in which M Carnot died was pof iron I was placed between two windows of the palace At its foot was the bed of honor which had been reserved re-served for the president The incision made by the doctors in order to stop the internal hemorrhage measured about three inches long by two inches wide Italians Ijivei in Danger I was thought the entire population of the city was on the streets when the attack was made but this later proved wrong for as the night advanced the crowds were constantly augmenting After the attacks upon the Italian cafes the disorderly element among the crowds devoted their attention to the Italians they found upon the streets Some of them were pursued and barely escaped alive The police had great difficulty in rescuing the hunted menThe men-The Rue de Ia Barre is now barricaded barricad-ed at both ends and guarded by troops Immediately after the death of P es that Carnot Prime Minister Duojy started on his return to Paris to DfHcIally announce the news t the senate and tle chamber of deputies After M Carnot had been taken t < > the prefecture it became grererally known hIs aFsjfsin was an Italian and the fee ln of deep indignation arong the crowd found vent in attacks upon cafes Kept b r iroftensive natives of Italy All uch placid in the vicinity of the uaais c3e commerce were total < wrecked by tltc mob French flags which were In abun dance were procured bv the crowd and with cries of Down with the foreigners out with them hundreds of people marched to the Rue de la Barre In which street the Italian consulate is situated There is no doubt the consulate wo ild have been attacked had it not been for the prompt action of the pUce who stopped the crowd and compelled its meTe bers P disperse The excitement continues at fever hat and it would take very little tl > precipi t t bloody dot VIr Thrat ltleit a made t take summary vengeance upon the countrymen of Santo and the authorities fearing that attempts will be made to put these threats into effect sent cuirassiers outbreak cuiras-siers to patrol the city to prevent any I To Consider the Situation Paris June 24A cabinet council has been summoned to meet at 10 I oclock this morning to ccnsider the I situation and to take appropriate ac tion in regard to the death of the pres ident Premier Dupuv Will confer with the presidents of the senate and wt ber of deputies prior to the meeting of the cabinet meetng I To Fill the Vacancy London June 25A dispatch to the Times from Paris says The French constitution requires that In the event of the presidency becoming vacant by death or otherwise the chambers must meet within three days of the time the vacancy occurs In the meantime the ministry directs the public business The dispatch says Santo came out of the Cafe Casati one of the places which was sacked by the mob Santo was born at Monte Vesconti province of Ian Hi Last Kiss London June 26A special to the Daily News says When President Car not reached Dijon en route for Lyons he found awaiting him on the platform of the railway station his soninlaw and his wife with his 4yearold grand daughter l Carnot took his grand daughter into his carriage and em braced her saying how much brtd mol pleasant it would be I he could stay at I Dijon instead of going to Lyons His eyes fled with tears as he gave her a gve I parting ther kiss and handed her to her fa |