REGICIDE, a term applied to persons who bring about the death of a king, by assassina tion or otherwise and specially applied in his tory to the judges of Charles. I, and the mem bers of the French Convention who voted for the death of Louis XVI. Of the judges, 67 in number, who actually sat in trial on Charles I, only 59 signed the death warrant. After the Restoration the regicides were brought to trial on a charge of high treason. Twenty-nine were condemned to death, but only 10 were executed, 19, together with six others who were not tried, being imprisoned, most of them for life. More than 20 who were already dead were tried and condemned, notwithstanding, and Cromwell, Ireton and Bradshaw, three of them, were exhumed and hanged at Tyburn and then reburied at the foot of the scaffold.
In July 1660, there arrived at Cambridge, Mass., Edward Whalley and his son-in-law, William Goffe, two of the judges who had condemned Charles I. For some months they appeared in public and joined in the devotional meetings in Cambridge and Boston, where they were kindly received. Upon the news of the passage by Parliament of the Indemnity Act. marking Whalley and Goffe for vengeance as regicides, they fled to New Haven and were re ceived and concealed by Davenport in the Cave."' They were concealed from pur
suit at New Haven and Milford for nearly two years. After this they fled to a cave in New Hampshire, but were there discovered by some Indians and returned to Hadley. Mass., where they were concealed until their death, Whalley dying in 1674, Goffe in 1679. When King Philip attacked Hadley in 1675, Goffe appeared and led the defense. Dixwell, another regicide, also escaped to New England.
In the broad sense of assassinations of rul ers under various titles we have since 1800 the following: Tsar Paul, Russia, 24 March 1801; President Lincoln, (died) 15 April 1865; Prince Michael, Servia, 10 June 1868; Sultan Abdul-. Aziz, Turkey, 4 June 1876; Tsar Alexander II, Russia, 13 March 1881; President Garfield, (died) 19 Sept. 1881; President Sadi Carnot, France, 24 June 1894; President Juan Idiarte, Uruguay, 25 Aug. 1897; President Heureaux, Santo Domingo, 26 July 1899; King Humbert, Italy, 29 July 1900; President McKinley (died) 14 Sept. 1901; King Alexander, Servia, 10 June 1903; King Carlos I, Portugal, 1 Feb. 1908; President Madero, Mexico, 23 Feb. 1913; King George, Greece, 18 March 1913; President Sam, Haiti, 28 July 1915.