AN ANARCHIST CRIME.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14972, 20 April 1912, Page 5 (Supplement)

AN ANARCHIST CRIME.

Smiling genially, Carnot, who was seated [oft the right side of the landau, in which he was proceeding from the public banquet as which ho had been , the chief guest to, the theatre on the night of June 24; 1884, responded to the vociferous outbursts of cheering with which lie was saluted as the landau proceeded along the street by raising his hat and waving his hand. He told a cuirassier who was ' riding beside him to draw back so,that ho might be, seen the better. Unhappily that , order sealed his fate. , All at once a young man sprang to the landau,; holding in his raised right hand a paper. , . '' Within the paper a poignard was con- • cealed . . ' . and leaving this in the terrible would which. he had inflicted, the assassin sprang down, dived between the. horses of, the landau, and rushed, across the street towards the spot where the present writer, with one of his wife's - brothers, was standing in the crowd. ■ There was a pretty servant girl, who,, like others, imagined, that he had , stolen a purse or something, and caught.him by the pleeve, and- kept him long enough to secure his arrest. , '■< ~r He was Caserio, the. son of a bargeman, a baker ,by tra,de, and an Italian by birth., —From " The Anarchists," by' Ernest A., Vizetelly, published by John' Lanei ;• j 'J