| Show 1 I h l i KING G SOS ALFONSO'S CHANCES CES New York Tribune While King Alfonso himself and many others besides be he- sides are arc Imbued with the conviction that he ho Is destined to die lie 1 by the hand of an A assassin his consort may do- do nyc some somo comfort from the fact that of oC all nil his long long- line lino of predecessors ors upon the time throne of oC Spain throughout hout a n period of oC nearly a thousand years not one lias imas been murdered King Peter of oC Castile surnamed The Cruel succumbed to violence It is 15 true rue but it was during the course of oC a personal encounter with his brother Hem henry lenry and ond can scarcely be described as an assassination Tho The contest between between be- be tween the two was witnessed ed by the French national hero Du who vho seeing that his friend Don Enrique had 1111 the tIme upper hand allowed him to finish off of his brother when h he had lad tho the latter on the ground Other rulers of Spain but relatively cl I II few Cew ew of oC them have had their lives at- at I tempted empted King Amadeus and Alfonso XII were both shot at at without sus- sus taming an any injury and old Queen Isabella was stabbed on one occasion when leaving church by a crazy and unfrocked priest but her corset S saved er from harm the tho would would-be bo mur- mur was seized before beCore he could repeat rc- rc peat neat cat the blow and the t dress which she he 01 e on that occasion cut and antl by the poniard now figures among mong the numerous gowns constitutIng Ing ig ug the wardrobe of oC Our Lady of oC tocha t In the famous Camou church of or that r i t t tf na nam Still It cannot be denied that the rIme crime of Is Increasing by leaps nd and I bounds In the of he the Old World orld and that it is far moro more f client today than it was In tho the medieval era cra In the first half of the nineteenth century but one ruler was murdered In the time second half a dozen perished by assa assassination in Europe alone and anti although but six years ears have hove elapsed since sinco the opening of f the twentieth century already three rulers ulers have havo met a tragic fate |
