THE SIPIDO INCIDENT.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXIV, Issue 13946, 1 January 1906, Page 9

THE SIPIDO INCIDENT.

RELEASED FROM GAOL. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. BRUSSELS, December 29. The youth Sipido, who, in April, 1900, attempted to shoot King .Edward, then Prince of Wales, at Brussels railway station; has been released from gaol and enrolled in the Belgium army. (On April 4, 1900, a youth named Sipido fired a revolver twice at the King (then Prince of Wales), at the Northern Station, Brussels, without doing any injury. He was at once arrested, and his pockets were found stuffed with Anarchist literature. The Prince and Princess of "Wales were journeying to Copenhagen for the King’s birthday, and to spend Easter there. They left Charing Cross in the morning, and travelled by way of Calais. When leaving the northern for the-southern station at Brussels at 3.31 p.m., the driver heard shots and stopped the train. Sipido stood on the footboard with a revolver thrust through the open window of the saloon carriage, intending to fire a third shot. The stationmaster and others arrested Sipido, who was vociferating that ho iuteiided to kill the author of the slaying of thousands in South Africa, and Mr Chamberlain’s accomplice. The Prince was self-possessed. Pie alighted and asked the officials if the weapon was loaded. On receiving a reply in the affirmative, he smilingly said that he hoped the youth would be leniently dealt with. The journey was then resumed. Sipido is a tinsmith, a Belgian of Italian extraction, and was fifteen years of age at the time he made the attempt on King Edward’s life. Sipido and two others, Anarchist instigators of the attempt, were sentenced to long terms of imprisonment.)