There was a little blood on the hem of her dress, for the assassin had slashed Miss Harris's companion, Major Rathbone, with a knife.

How was he to suspect that an assassin had been lurking somewhere across the street waiting for just such a chance??

Her reputed last words, uttered as the assassin was about to strike, were " Smite my womb ", the implication here being she wished to be destroyed first in that part of her body that had given birth to so " abominable a son.

The word " assassin " was derived from Hasan-i Sabbah and his Assassins | Assassin's Order of Nizari Ismailism.

In 1192, Conrad of Montferrat, the de facto King of Jerusalem, was killed by an assassin.

Liaquat Ali Khan, the first Prime Minister of Pakistan, was assassinated by Saad Akbar, a lone assassin, in 1951.

Thomas P. " Boston " Corbett ( 1832 – presumed dead September 1, 1894 ) was the Union Army soldier who shot and killed Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth.

Corbett was a member of the 16th New York Cavalry Regiment sent, on April 24, 1865, to apprehend John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln, who was still at large.

In his official statement, Corbett claimed he shot Booth because he thought Lincoln's assassin was preparing to use his weapons.

The seventh assassin escaped to Montenegro where he was arrested.

He attended as operating surgeon when President Garfield was fatally wounded by the bullet of an assassin in 1881.

Contentious issues include Egypt's signing of the Camp David Accords with Israel in 1979, its support for Iraq in Iran's eight-year conflict, the Islamic Republic's hailing of Khalid Islambouli, the late President Anwar Sadat's assassin as a religious hero, seeing as there was both a street and mural named after him ( however, the honorer was changed to Muhammad al-Durrah, the 12-year-old Palestinian boy shot and killed during the outset of the Second Intifada ), and close Egyptian relations with the United States, and most of the Western European countries.

The assassin, Nathuram Godse, was a Hindu nationalist with links to the extremist Hindu Mahasabha, who held Gandhi responsible for weakening India by insisting upon a payment to Pakistan.

The assassin, Nathuram Godse, was a Hindu nationalist with links to the extremist Hindu Mahasabha, who held Gandhi responsible for weakening India by insisting upon a payment to Pakistan.

Others state that he was assassinated in the evening after the battle at his tent by the assassin who was admitted to ask a special favour.

On 27 July 1981, he was shot 5 times from a distance of around two meters in a Warsaw Victoria ( now Sofitel ) hotel coffee shop, but survived the attack, chasing his would-be assassin down to the coffee shop's front entrance before collapsing ;

After Hasdrubal's assassination by a Celtic assassin, Hamilcar's young sons took over, with Hannibal becoming the strategus of Iberia, although this decision was not undisputed in Carthage.

A few days later, while Saladin was resting in one of his captain's tents, an assassin rushed forward at him and struck at his head with a knife.

It has been claimed that during the gruesome torture of Balthasar Gérard ( the assassin of William of Orange ) in 1584, the song was sung by the

While another doctor called Guncelin, recognizing the symptoms of poisoning, was able to rescue the Duke from an imminent death, causing severe vomiting and cleansing the body ; but the assassin wasn't discovered, and this time put the poison in the knife used by Henry IV to cut his bread.

Lawrence Teeter, attorney for convicted assassin Sirhan Sirhan, believed Sirhan was under the influence of hypnosis when he fired his weapon at Robert F. Kennedy in 1968.

Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of President William McKinley, was also a member of Oneida for a brief time.

The fight ended in a draw, with Bane escaping and heading to Ambria with Darth Cognus, an Iktotchi assassin skilled in use of the dark side who Bane planned to take as his apprentice if Zannah proved herself weak and unworthy.

Among the characters who join the Jedi Exile are Kreia, who acts as the Exile's mentor in a manner akin to Obi-Wan Kenobi or Qui-Gon Jinn ; pilot and former Sith assassin Atton Rand ; technician and Mandalorian War veteran Bao-Dur and his droid remote ; the criminal droid G0-T0 ; and the Sith apprentice Visas Marr.

She becomes the apprentice of Mohist practitioner Cho Chau-to, also becoming an assassin who kills people for money.

* From Russia With Love ( 1963 ): the Irish assassin being modelled on both Red Grant and the leprechaun character from the Lucky Charms commercials ; Frau Frabissina partly modelled on Rosa Klebb ; Mustafa based on a character in Matt Helm's The Ambushers.

* 43 BC – Battle of Forum Gallorum: Mark Antony, besieging Julius Caesar's assassin Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus in Mutina, defeats the forces of the consul Pansa, who is wounded.

Mehmet Ali Ağca (; born January 9, 1958 ) is a Turkish assassin who murdered left-wing journalist Abdi İpekçi on February 1, 1979 and later shot and wounded Pope John Paul II on May 13, 1981, after escaping from a Turkish prison.

In 1991, Zahir Shah survived an attempt on his life by a knife-wielding assassin who pretended to be a Portuguese journalist.

Miles is assigned to the Barrayaran Embassy on Earth as Third Military Attaché, and meets his clone, who has been trained as an assassin.

Many of the stories were created by Mills and co-writer Tony Skinner, including Accident Man, an assassin who makes his hits look like accidents.

* Jack Ruby ( 1911 – 1967 ), the man who killed presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald

* The DC Comics character Ravan is a Thuggee assassin who kills to delay the return of Kali.

Eastwood plays Jonathan Hemlock in a role originally intended for Paul Newman, an assassin turned college art professor who decides to return to his former profession for one last " sanction " in return for a rare Pissarro painting.

The legend credits his death to an assassin who is said to have hidden in Kenshin's lavatory, and gravely injured Kenshin by thrusting a blade or spear into his anus.

Even earlier, Dante, in a passing reference in the 19thcanto of the Inferno, speaks of ` the treacherous assassin '( lo perfido assassin ); his fourteenth-century commentator Francesco da Buti, explaining a term which for some readers at the time may still have been strange and obscure, remarks: ' Assassino è colui che uccide altrui per danari ' ( An assassin is one who kills others for money ).

Well-known patients of St. Elizabeths include would-be presidential assassins Richard Lawrence ( who attempted to kill Andrew Jackson ) and more recently John Hinckley, Jr. who shot Ronald Reagan, as well as the successful assassin of James Garfield, Charles J. Guiteau ( until his execution ).

: Chloe is a skilled assassin who uses throwing and handheld knives instead of guns.

The assassin immediately tried to escape and reach his associates who were waiting for him with horses at the entrance of Aegae.

When the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, Lorre took refuge first in Paris and then London, where he was noticed by Ivor Montagu, Alfred Hitchcock's associate producer for The Man Who Knew Too Much ( 1934 ), who reminded the director about Lorre's performance in M. They first considered him to play the assassin in the film, but wanted to use him in a larger role, despite his limited command of English, which Lorre overcame by learning much of his part phonetically.

Célestin Hennion, the head of the French Police, was on hand to arrest the would-be assassin, who was tried but found not guilty.

Although Clisson survived, Charles was determined to punish the would-be assassin, Pierre de Craon, who had taken refuge in Brittany.

Also In Elder Scrolls V Skyrim, Cicero is an assassin who takes on the role of a Jester, exhibiting strange and erratic behavior.