A NARROW ESCAPE.
WONDERFUL HORSEMANSHIP. MADRID, April 13. , ivmg Alfonso had presented 43a& ( colors to the recruits, and was ' returning at a walking pace. Alegre. t3ie would-be assassin, quitting the front of the crowd! darted forward, seized the bridle of the lung's -horse, and flourished a ; Drowning pistol. King_ Alfonso, with his Tatsual ' admtrable coolness, realising the position), with a sudden pull at the bridle raised his horse at the moment Alegre 'fired, and thanks to iiis wonderful 'horsemanship, only the Worse's •chest was hit
A policeman seized Megf&a .-and xhpew him, deflecting tivo other ■shots.
A dozen people were iaijußed iin the ensuing .stampede. The King received aa eriishusiastio ;popular ovation.
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Marlborough Express, Volume XLVII, Issue 88, 15 April 1913, Page 5
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112A NARROW ESCAPE. Marlborough Express, Volume XLVII, Issue 88, 15 April 1913, Page 5
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