Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1900 — ATTACK ON THE SHAH [ARTICLE]

ATTACK ON THE SHAH

LIFE OF PERSIA'S RULER ATTEMPTED IN PARIS. Assassin Uses Cane, Knife and Revolver In Effort to Kill—Evidence of a Plot to Murder Another of the Old-World Monarchs. An attempt on the life of the Shah of Persia, Muzaffer-ed-Din, was made iu< Paris Thursday morning, but luckily it/ .resulted in no harm to his majesty. As the Shah, accompanied by his grand vi' zier, was driving iu a landau, a young man jumped from out of a crowd of bystanders and before any one kpew what he was about, he raised a cane and aimed a blow at the head of the Shah. His majesty showed wonderful presence of Mind, jumped to hit| feet and at the same time stretching out his right arm, broke the force of the blow. The would-be murderer instantly coolly thrust his other hand under his coat and from the folds of his shirt he pulled out a long, gleaming knife and quickly made a thrust at the Shah with this weapon. The grand vizier, the detectives and police, by this time getting over the surprise of the suddenness of this dastardly act, pounced on the. assassin, overpowered and disarmed him. In the scuffle that followed a revolver fell to the floor of the carriage. According to one policeman, who arrested the assassin, the revolver belonged to the murderer. According to others it belonged to thp grand vizier, who, in drawing it from his pocket, had it knocked out of his hand during the scuffle. The whole thing took less than a minute and bore all the evidence of being well planned beforehand. A crowd of 500 people, who witnessed the attempted assassination, made a rush toward the would-be murderer and tried to attack him, but there were many police in the neighborhood acting as guards of the Shah, and these prevented the mob from doing violence to the miscreant. The prisoner was taken to the police station. He declined to give his name or nationality.