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Show TRIED TO SLAY KING. KING OF SPAIN FIRED UPON BY ANARCHIST. Would-be Assassin Overpowered by Guard and Lodged in Prison-Authorities Prison-Authorities Believe He is Insane. As King Alfonso, Dowager Queen Christina and the court were returning return-ing from church Saturday afternoon, a man, who afterwards gave his name as Feito, fired a pistol at one of the carriages in the royal procession. The bullet went wild, avd no one was injured. in-jured. ' When Feito was starched at the police po-lice station, in his pocnets were found unmailea letters marked "registered," and addressed to President Roosevelt, King Edward, the emperor of Germany Ger-many and the president of the high court of justice at Mexico, and also receipts for a number of registered letters and a visiting card of the mayor 01 Madrid. Feito is 34 years oi age, and was born in Postadas. He insisted that he was not an anarchist, and said that his wife, a French voman, had con-. fined him in a lunatic asylum. The prisoner, in making this statement, did not appear excited, but there are Indications that he is insane. |