Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-30
PARTISAN POLICE ACT.
They Endeavor to Prevent Further
Dynamite 0utrages.
THREATS MADE BY ANARCHISTS
To Blow Up Houses Put the Occupants and
Officials on Guard.
EXPLOSIVES FOUND on AN ACCoMPLICE

PARIS, March 29-It has been a long
time since such activity has been shown by
the police as is now displayed. The Rue
Clchy explosion has impressed upon the
authorities the fact that Anarchism, or at
least the crimes arising from that doctrine,
must be prevented if the fair fame of the
city is not to suffer. The money loss grow
ing out of the fear occasioned by the ex-
ploSion is incalculable. With no ce rtainty
as to where the Anarchists will strike their
next blow, visitors to Paris deem it the
safer plan to leave the city, much to the
disgust of hotel proprietors and shop
keepers There is no denying the fact that
the expressed intention of the Anarchists
10 inaugurate a reign of terror has caused
CONSERVATION. Their success in this direc-
tion has emboldened them TO the commission
of further crimes and the people hourly
expect to hear of other dynamite outrages.
An important meeting of the authorities
was held at the Ministry of the Interior to-
day. The situation was discussed in all its
bearings, and it was arranged to execute
stringent measures for the prevention of
turther outrages The residences of Nj.
Athalin, an examining magistrate; NJ.
Girare, the public ANALYST, and NJ. Clement
police commissarv, are guarded day and
night to prevent the Anarchists from carry
ing out their threats to blow them up.
Bsnoit Gets Notice to Quit.
Judge Benoit, against whom the recent
explosion in the Boulevard ST. German was
erected, has been served with a notice to
quit by his landlord The owner of the
house which the Judge occupies says that if
he remains there the other tenants will
leave, fearing that the Anarchists will make
another attempt to blow up the Judge. M.
Thevenet, ex- Minister of Justice, received a
menacing letter yesterday.
The Figaro publishes interviews with two
leading Anarchists They declared that
the members of the party were acting
singly, on their own responsibility, and that
there was no preconcerted plan to cause
explosions Both of them expressed them
selves as delighted with the moral effect of
the explosions, which, they say, would di-
rect greater attention to their doctrines
A Cabinet council was held this afternoon
in which the Ministers discussed the e1-
plosion that occurred Sunday morning at
the house, No. SO Rue Clichy, where great
damage was done
Police Are Actively Investigating.
At the close of the meeting M. Loubet,
the Prime Minister. had conference with
NJ. Ricard, Minister of Justice, several
magistrates and the chiefs of police. NJ
Loubet communicated to them the Govern
ment decision regarding the adoption of
measures to prevent any further work of
destruction by the Anarchists.
The announcement is again made TODAY
that the police are on the track of the
Anarchist Ravachol, who they are con-
vnced is the author of the Boulevard
81. German and the Rue Clichy ex-
plosons.
The police assert that they have obtained
detailed information in regard to the explo-
sions on the Boulevard ST. Germain and
Rue Clich, and that Ravachol placed the
bombs in position while accomplices kept
watch. The mistress of one accomplice |
brought bomb into Paris concealed under |
her clothing. A packet of explosives has |
been found in a house in the Rue Rennes |
just vacated by police magistrate.
Parisians Badly Scared
In all the fashionable quarters precau-
tions have been taken to guard houses
against explosives Cellar gratings have |
been replaced by sheet iron shutters and |
front doors are kept closed. Servants en-
rloved by the legal officials are quitting
service.
In an interview today published the |
Anarchists openly attribute the recent out
RACES to vengeance for Benoit's and Bulot's |
harsh treatment of the Decamps and Dar-
dare gang. NJ. De Cassagnac, ex-Min-
ister Thevenet and others demand an
augmentation of the police force, but |
strong opposition is still evinced to the
adoption of the English system of
offering rewards A town councillor, in an
interview, declared that since NJ Floquet
quilted the Ministry of the Interior, the
prefecture of police had been deprived of
nearly the whole secret service fund, G4,-
300 yearly. There were two bad results
IF this: First, good detectives were de-
prived of the money they needed for their
work, and, second, the shadier detectives,
rendered desperate through starvation, were
ready to relapse into the criminal classes,
whence they often sprang, and thus
become the most dangerous men in
Paris. Ravachol, it has been learned, came
to Paris from st. Etienne in July last. He
was distrusted by the Anarchists here until
he was Joined by man named Bealat, who
also came from st. Etienne, and who in
troduced him to Matthieu and others promi-
nent in the Anarchist ranks