The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-04-05
SIX POUND BOMBS
An Attempt to Blow Up Ma
d1id's Public Buildings.
FRENCH DYNAM1TER CAPTURED
He Carried One of the Missiles Under Els
Cloak and Tried to Explode 1t,

When Arrested IL Was Learned that He
Had Placed Another Bomb in the
building, but the Fuse Failed to Burn
His Name is Levat-He is Supposed
to be in League with the Paris
Anarchists.
MADRID, April 5.-The police arrested
a Frenchman as he was entering a back
door of the Parliamentary building.
He had excited their suspicious by his
efforts to avoid observation and by hold
ing with great care bundle under his
cloak. When arrested he tried to throw
down the bundle but was prevented. He
was taken to police station, where the
bundle was found to contain dynamite
bomb with fuse ready for lighting.
The Frenchman said that he had
placed a similar bomb In the lobby en-
trance, but evidently the fuse had gone
out. An examination of the lobby re-
suited in the discovery of the bomb be-
hind pillar.
Each comb contained about six pounds
of dynamite, enough to have wrecked
the whole building
In the Frenchman's papers was found
an Anarchistic proclamation containing
this statements
Everything enjoyed by the rich is
created by the labor of the poor. The
wicked system of modern society pre-
vents workingmen from possessing what
the produce. Whatever the form of
government, the rich seize the power
and rob the poor, and no party dares to
oppose them. AS the laws serve only to
. fI., snI, IL, haf ~, I.N
us help ourselves. Let us attack the
rich with all conceivable means-wit h
fire, knife and poison. Ownership Is
theft Death to the bourgeoisiel Strike
nowl'
There were three large red CROSSES at
the top and bottom of the proclamation,
but no signatures.
His name is Devat. He has travelled
| much in Portugal and Spain, aud is sup
posed to be leader in the plots of the
| Spanish Anarchists. Additional papers
have been found sewed in his under
| clothes. They contain the details of
| plans to blow up with dynamite the
| Chamber, tho Senate, the Palace and
| Opera House, as well as several muni-
cipal buildings. The police think that
| the plots were laid by Anarchists In Paris
In collusion with members of the Mano
| Negra in Spain, and that Devat was
| sent to lead in the execution as he knew
the country, yet was not known to the
| police.
The police think the prisoner is a
member of the Msno Negra, the organi-
zation of murderers and robbers to which
! the Xeres Anarchists belonged. A
| clipping from the Paris "Figaro,n con-
! firming the dynamite outragcs in this
| city was also found in his pocket, and it
is thought that he may be the man who
placed the bomb at the Spanish Embassy
there. A description Of him has been
telegraphed to Paris. The prisoner re-
fuses to give any account of himself
further than to say that he had not been
in Paris recently. He is stranger here,
however, and the police, who have been
keeping a close watch of all suspected
Anarchists here for che last six weeks,
say that he is probably one of the refu-
gees from the Paris colony. Almost one
hundred of these refugees, they say, have
settled in this city and its suburbs in
| the last two weeks.