Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-01
Murder, Counterfeiting and Robbery
Confessed on the Stand.
THE SOISSY ROBBERY PLANNED.
The Fiend'S Butcheries Are as Heartless as
Those of Deeming.
NEWS FROM THE EUROPEAN CAPITALS

Iney say that ne glorlned In the muruer OF
two women who kept wine shop near Saint
Etienne; that he boosted of having supped
in a room where their corpses lay, cutting
his food with the bloody knife with which
he had murdered them.
1t was reported late tonight that Gustav
Matthew, Ravachol's most dangerous accom-
plice, has been arrested Ravachol is now
voluble. in his cell. He speaks most fluent
ly, although he is not an educated man.
He promises to reveal everything to-mor-
row. The police have learned from inform
ers that Ravachol planned the Soissy rob-
berry and proposed to kill everybody met on
the way to the dynamite depot who was
likely to bear witness against them The
accomplices opposed linn, however, and the
idea was dropped.
Why He May Be Tried for Murder.
Ravachol carried the bomb used in the
Boulevard ST. German, and placed it in
position, leaving the house only few sec
onds before the explosion. The supposition
that he will be tried for murder is due to
belief that the evidence of attempts to
murder by causing explosions is TOO weak
10 send him to the guillotine. The police
state that he will, in any case, be first tried
for causing the explosions.
The Anarchist prisoners who were con-
cerned in the explosions in the Boulevard
StGermain and at the Lobau Barracks have
made a detailed confession. They say that
Ravachol was concerned in a murder and
robbery at Mont Brison, by which he real
lied 4, 900 francs He gave the bulk of the
IN, -
sums when required for dynamiting pur-
poses Ravachol assisted in stealing and
burying the dynamite taken from the fac
tory at Soissy, declare the informers
Chaumartin asks to be sentenced to i'm
prisonment, as he fears assassination if
released.
Ravachol's examination, which was held
last night, occupied five hours. 1t chiefly
related to his past life, and he was SUBJ
jected to string of questions revealed that
he was a greater villain than even the
police supposed.
Confessed Some Grimes, Denied Others.
He confessed the murder of the old her
nit of Notre Dame de Grace. He denied
the murders of an old man servant at Vari
zelle in 1885, and his former wife in 1885
His denial of these crimes, however, was
not very strong, and many discrepancies
appeared in his replies in relation to
them: The police are confident they will
vet discover evidence showing that he
killed both those persons
Some time ago an old man was killed
with an ak which belonged to the victim.
The murderer stole sum of money and
quantity of valuables, and effected his es-
cape Ravachol was questioned as to this
crime, and here, too, his denial was very
weak. He admitted that he was grave
ward ghoul, and told of a number of graves
that he had robbed. When the police
searched his lodgings yesterday they found,
among other evidences of his criminal oper-
ations, a set of counterfeiters' tools. When
questioned regarding the possession of these
unlawful belongings he coolly acknowl-
edged that he belonged to gang Of coun-
terfeiters, but he persistently refused to
make any admission that would lead to the
detection of his confederates
The Paris Echo to-day states that Rava-
chol has admitted that he was the author
OF the Boulevard ST. German explosion.
Betrayed by an Accomplish.
The chief detective asserts that Chau-
martin, an accomplice of Ravachol, who is
now under arrest betrayed his leader and
told the police that Ravachol intended to
blow up the house of NJ. Buiot, one of the
prosecuting counsel in the recent Anarchist
trials NJ. Bulot's residence, it will be re-
called, was at No. 80 Rue Clichy, the scene
of the destructive explosion on Sunday
morning last Ravachol lived at st. Mande,
near the wood of Vincennes, four miles
southeast of Paris. He was seen going to
Paris Sunday morning, carrying with him a
small portmanteau.
Ravachol is watched in prison night and
dav by detectives He is the illegitimate son
of German parents, and was born in France.
1t is now acknowledged on all sides that the |
police had good reason to believe that he |
would make desperate resistance against |
arrest, and those who condemned them for
not arresting him some days ago now admit |
that the police were right in not attempting |
to effect his capture until they had made |
sure there was no chance of his escaping |
them.
Ravachol Deemed Very Big Game. |
The Government looks on the arrest of |
Ravachol as OF the greatest importance not |
only in that it has thrown into its hands a |
man already condemned to death for murder, |
but in that it is believed that his capture |
will put an end to the dynamite eutrages in |
Paris. No doubt is entertained that he is a |
most dangerous criminal, and his incarcera-
tion has removed great source of trouble |
and uneasiness.
The Government has rewarded, or intends
to reward, everyone IN any way connected
with the making of the arrest. The pro-
prietor of the wineshop at the corner of Rue
Iancey and the Boulevard Magenta. in
whose place Ravachol was captured, and the
waiter who notified the police that Raya-
chol was in the wineshop. receive a reward
of 900 francs The man who made the ar
rest will be decorated with the ribbon of the
Legion of Honor, and the six gendarmes
who assisted him will receive medals and
will be promoted for the share they took
in effecting the capture Of the notorious
Anarchist.
The recent raids made upon the lodgings
of the Anarchists, aad the arrest of so many
members of that party, has had the effect of
somewhat frightening them.
Anarchists Pretty Well Cowed.
As a rule, those who are still at liberty
no longer make loud threats in public of
the great damage and destruction they in
tend to cause.
1t is believed that several Anarchists who
expected that the police would search their
lodgings have sought to rid themselves of
all evidence that would connect them with
the dynamite conspiracy. The police have
reason to think that some of these men, who
sre known TO them, have thrown into the
Seine large quantities of stolen dynamite
and number of internal machines, in their
efforts to escape capture for having these
articles in their possession for unlawful pur-
poses. The Authorities have hired divers