Paris, Oct. 12. As an illustration of the wild con: fusion which followed the assassin tion in Marseilles on Tuesday of King Alexander and M. Louis Bar-thou, French Foreign Minister, it was reveated to-day that a French ex-service man had been mistaken by the police as an accomplice of the Croatian regicide.
'The ex-service man, whose name Pelicer, had hurled' himself upon' Petrus 'Kalemen, the man who fired' the fatal shots. 'Believed to be an} accomplice of Kalemen, Pelicer wa-[immediately seized by the police. handcuffed and hurried in a taxicab' to the police prefecture.
Later, however, it was discovered "hat mot only was he innocent of any attempt on the life of the Yugoslavian Seize the assassin. He was released by the police, but, as the result of the injuries he sustained in the melee mich attended his arrest, he is now in bed and under the care of doctor.
The Yugoslavian Legation, upon learning of his bravery, to-day sent two representatives to" thank him—Reuter.
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