Evening journal., 1892-04-26
REVENGE FOR RAVACHOL
The Wineshop Where He Was
Arrested Blown Up.
PROPRIETOR vERYs LIFE TAKEN.

Ten of the Patrons of the Famous Place
Were Severely Injured Paris ~ a state
OF Panic ON the Day of Anarchist Ra-
vachors Trial
PARIS, April % An explosion occurred
last evening in the entrance Of the wine
shop Of NJ Very, 22 Boulevard Magenta,
where Ravachol, the anarchist, was arrest
ud on March So The bomb contained at
least twelve pounds OF dynamite, and COM
pletely wrecked the establishment. Ten
persons were seriously injured aud NJ. Very
is dead. Three arrests have been made, in
Guiding a man who, just after the explosion
in the wineshop, shouted at the next cor
ner, "Viye ranarchier A revolver and
knife were found ON him. He processes TO
know nothing Of the explosion.
Troops finally cleared the Boulevard Ma.
genta. Thousands Of sightseers had crowd
ed the street near the wrecked wineshop,
and the police were unable to drive them
back In the confusion it was feared an
other outrage might he perpetrated. -Four
companies Of soldiers were called out.
NJ. very's Terrible Fate.
The wineshop was half full Of guests, and
the bomb was placed at the door leading
from the corridor into the wineroom. M.
Very was standing In the middle of the
room. He was thrown against the wall in
a heap OF shattered tables and chairs. The
ceiling fell, and several beams were split and
fell to the floor. The police, who have been
stationed near the wineshop since Rava-
chols arrest came up and took out the
wounded Both of NJ Very's legs had been
crushed by the falling beams, his collar bone
was fractured and his right arm was broken
He was bleeding at the mouth and cans and
had received internal injuries. His little
boy was found unconscious In "a corner with
his collar bone broken. Both were taken 20
the Saint Lois hospital, where M. Nery's
legs were amputated. He died just before
midnight.
OF the other ten persons injured three
were taken 10 the hospital and the Others
were helped TO their homes by the police.
Six have broken bones and internal injuries.
sThe wincshop Wrecked.
Half Of the front of the wine shop wa'
blown out, the stairs Of the lower two sto
ries were smashed TO splinters, and not 4
door OF window in the house was left whole
The floor in the corridor was blown away
the chandelier was twisted and hurled int
a corner, and, where the ceiling and wall
were not split the plaster was taken of a
II scraped with knife The buildings oi
each side were damaged from top to bot
tom The whole block was shaken, and tn
walls were started 80 that they cracked o
bulged. Five minutes after the explosion
the street was crowded with frightene,
men and women An extra force OF polio
was unable to induce them 20 return e
their rooms.
Men began carrying out their most valua
BILE possessions and prepared TO move theu
families 70 other parts OF the city. hucl
Of the patronage of the wineshop was local
and families in the neighborhood fear tina
RayachOl's friends have marked il for dc
struction, as warning TO the magistrat
and the witnesses Of the trial Of Rayachol.
Paris Panic stricken.
NJ Very had received fifty or SIXTY threat
ening letters from anarchists since RavachC
was arrested. One Of them, found by tn
police in NJ Verys desk al the rear OF th
shop, read:
| stR-You have dared 20 betray Ravacho
Beware You will learn what his friends ca
DO Your shop is doomed and your infamou
life viii be taken before May l. Your family
| no better than you we VIII take care OF lhei
too FRIENDS or RAvAcHoI.
At the top OF this was printed in red LET
tiers MAY p and the same was printed a
the bottom IN black letters. There was an
other letter, with skull and crossbones a
the top, which apparently referred directl
to the present outrage.
LHerot the waiter who assisted IN th
arrest Of Ravachol, was not o. the wine
shop when the bomb exploded, and IL
thought he has fed from the city In th
morning he received letter warning hir
that he would not live to testify agains
Ravachol, and that the following twenty
four hours would be his last
The rumor is abroad that an attempt wi
be made to assassinate NJ. Quesnay de Beau
repaire, the prosecutor general, on his wa
to court today. His residence is guarde
{ within and without and detectives patrS
the street in which the house stands
! Atthehn, the examining magistrate IN III
case, is similarly guarded. Today's trial q
Ravachol will be held in an atmosphere ,
panic, for the police have been warned tina
preparations have been made 70 blow u
!, the courtroom. The panic throughout th
b city surpasses anything that has been e.
perienced since the outrages began.