St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-03-28
A Dastardly Attempt to Kill
the Public Prosecutor
Of Paris.
Eight Pounds Of Dynamite
Used to Blow UP His
House.
The President Of Venezuela
Orders Supreme Judges
Imprisoned.
Caracas, the Capital, Is Now
in a Virtual State Of
Siege.

PARIS, March 27.-There was ter
ing at 80 Rue Clichy, the home of M.
Roulet, the public prosecutor. The at
tempt was against his life, which has
been threatened repeatedly lately by
anarchists. The police say that at least
eight pounds of dynamite must have
been used. The effect of the explosion
was indescribable. Houses for an
eighth of mile on every side of No. 80
were rocked as If by an earthquake.
All windows were shattered in the
neighborhood, and walls of the strong
est buildings in the Immediate vicinity
were cracked and bulged. No. 80 is
a wreck. The explosion, which is
thought to have taken place in the
ground hallway, blew the stairway to
splinters. so that the panic-strickeu in
mates had to be helped down from the
upper floors with ladders. The furni-
ture throughout the house was thrown
into heaps and against walls so that not
q whole chair or table remained. The
windows, frames and all, were blown
out completely. The bricks were driven
from place and dropped to the street.
The plastering was stripped clean from
all walls and ceilings. Seven persons
were injured by the explosion; four by
being thrown from chairs on which they
were sitting, and three from falling
debris. M. Boulot. who lived on the
fifth floor, is said to have escaped with
out injury. The theory that the an
archsts have been preparing the in
fernal machines and dynamite bombs
already discovered for May has been
abandoned. The police are convinced
that they have begun
War Of determination
of all persons in Office who have antag-
oniZed them, SO as TO frighten maglS-
trates out of convicting their comrades
apprehended in crime. A leading an
archist, interviewed by French re-
porter, on the condition that his name
should be withheld, expresses the pro-
gramme of his comrades thus:
"The anarchists, as they are showing,
have in their hands the means OF Secur-
ing immunity from the courts and pub
lie officials. These means consist in
holding personally responsible every in
divldual who assists in convicting them.
Magistrates are mortal and amenable to
fear To give them the necessary les
sons, as in the case of M. Benoit, 1t will
be indispensable to blow up the house
OF every Judge or public prosecutor who
has assisted recently in sending anarch-
lists to prison. After we have treated
few magistrates and prosecutors in this
way, not a judge or lawyer will dare to
risk the convection of anarchists, as
he will know that such conviction
is his own death warrant and
perhaps the death warrant of his family.
The method is easy and not dangerous,
as we have allies in every neighbor-
hood who are ready to facilitate the es-
cape of the perpetrators of such all act
of justice. The police have not caught
'auy of the men who are responsible for
the two last explosions, although they
think they have. We do not intend to
make the innocent suffer with the
guilty, and so we warn people not to
live in houses with persons who are
active In prosecutions. We wish to
make it so that the judges and lawyers
who prosecute us will be obliged to live
alone, and landlords will refuse to rent
property to them for fear of our venge-
ance. When we can make our per
secutors the pariahs of society iii this
way, we shall have taken a long step
towards the revolution"