DEN OF HORRORS.

Matamata Record, Volume X, Issue 875, 10 November 1927, Page 3

DEN OF HORRORS.

SPANISH RULER’S RELIC; Attempts at Assassination. Perhaps the-strangest personal collection of mementos in the world is in the private museum of King Alfonso, of Spain, which contains, so far as it was' possible to get them, all . the weaponsand .6th<_r objects which from: time to time have been employed in attempts to assassinate him. .... i-’"'?

The collection an ( <l arrangement of this museum is not, the King frankly confesses, the most pleasant and- welcome task in the world. It is, however, one of fascinating in. crest, albeit one of. exceptional difficulty.

Simultaneous with Alfonso’s latest arrival in Paris, accompanied by the Queen, the police 'discovered a new plot to kill him. The conspirators purpose,:!; to employ in their crime a new kind of revolver, apparently designed for the crime.. Though it was not possible to get the identical weapon which was ,o be used upon him, he obtained so exact a description of it that he was enabled to have a clever artisan make one for his tragical museum, where it forms a conspicuous object.

i The contents of the museum are numerous and varied. Among them is a jagged fragment of steel, a part of a bomb which was embedded in the framework of. the King's carriage when it was flung ad him and exploded with deadly intent. Another is a nursing bottle with which it was meant to poison him in his infancy. Bombs, pistols and knives are plen iful. But perhaps the most curious exhibit of all is the skeleton of the horse which was killed by a bomb in front of the King’s carriage on the very day of his wedding lo Princess Ena. •