Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-12-26
VALIANT AND HIS CRIME.
Interesting Details of the Bomb Ex-
plosfon i'm the French Chamber of
Deputies.

Interesting Details Of the Bomb Ex-
Deputies.
The latest Paris newspapers at hand are
filled with accounts of the bomb throwing
which occurred in the chamber of deputieson
Saturday, December 9. To the details al
ready transmitted by the cable, however.
few interesting particulars can be ad-
ded from a translation in the New York
Tribune.
The explosion occurred at 400 pm. NJ.
Mirman. socialist professor OF mathe-
mates, whose election was DISPUTED, had
| just descended from the tribune, where he
mad spoken in favor of his yaiidation NJ.
Dupy, the speaker. was jus: saying: II
| am about to call for a vote upon the con-
clusions Of the sixth electoral committee, -
when, before he had finished his sentence,
defamation was heard
Abbott Lemire, a deputy, rolled from his
bench, and frightened cries were heard
| from every part of the house, which was
| nlled with smoke. 1t Is certain that IL the
bomb had reached the floor many deputies
would have been killed, but the arm of the
anarchist was jostled by a woman sitting
near him in the public gallery, and the
bomb exploded on touching the railing Of
that gallery; This explains how most OF
the wounded were not found in the ranks
OF the deputies, but among the spectators
of the galleries, or public tribunes, as they
are called in France.
ported the dignified attitudes maintained by
the rench deputies in that awful moment
of suspense. The sitting continued without
excitement; speeches were made, and the
house adjourned only after having finished
| its regular work. Meanwhile forty-seven
wour1ed persons had been transported in
| the ambulance to a hospital professionally
established in the "buvette," or refresh
ma of he cha hQr md ma nv nar
! persons not seriously injured went to their
homes as soon as the gates of the building
were opened again.
The gates had been closed Immediately
after the bomb throwing. a deputy, NJ
| Angeles, having gone at once to the sent
| incl, and, showing him his card a mem
| Der of the house told the soldier: Close
the gates. and do not let anybody go out,
even If he should tell you he is deputy.
The chamber was guarded that day by
| company Of marine infantry, and these
soldiers hsd to cross their oayonets to pre-
vent the crowd of Frightened spectators from
| the galleries from breaking open the gates
1t Is thanks to that measure that the
murderous anarchist found himself in the
clutches Of the police, who did not suppose
at first that they held the author of the eN-
plosion. The man was so little suspected
that his name was quietly published IN the
/ Paris papers of Monday, two days after the
outrage in the list of the forty-seven SER
iously wounded.
He is mentioned as follows: M Valiant
Auguste, Ii Rue de la Raffineries, Choisy-
| le-Roi; wounded in the nose and the right
leg" He had entered in that part of the
public galleries where no cards Of admit.
lance are necessary, and nobody had no.
ticed him. His neighbors in the gallery
were so far from thinking that bomb had
been thrown that one of them. NJ Mourier,
| a restaurant keeper. declared afterward
THE first sensation 1 felt was that of a
light passing in front of the tribune Uhe
pulpit where orators of the French cham
Der have to go to deliver their speeches). A
pretty strong defamation followed AS
was completely ignorant of parliament ry
usages, / thought at first that an official re-
| volver-shot had been fired to announce the
end of the speech of NJ. Mierman, who was
then descending from the tribune" A
woman, who was wounded in the leg, had
a somewhat similar impression. She
thought, on seeing the light, that IL was
dele romaine," or small frecrackers, In
honor of orators who are eloquent
1t was involuntarily that the woman sitting
beside Valiant happened to touch his arm
thus causing the bomb to strike on ths
border Of the gallery, instead of on the fool
of the chamber. AS to Valiant, he was one
of the first to try to fee from the chamber
and find an exit through the gates guarded
by the marine infantry. He was hatless
bleeding and In fury of passion; ht
smashed with his cane a window panel of q
door. and a soldier leveled his bayonet al
him.
went tnon 10 tne refreShmeni
room, where he had his wounds bandaget
by DIR. Merton. deputy of the Yonne. Vail
liant was roaming around in several pa -ts
of the building when he was noticed by .
stenographer of the chamber, NJ. Paulido
who called the attention of NJ. Clement
commissary of police, to the demeanor OF
Vailan
The anachist said that he was a NJ Mar.
chal, living at Choisy-le- Roi, and that n,
was waiting for the -eopening of the gate.
in order to go home.
The commissary's suspicious were aroused
and he sent Valiant to the depot of tbs
prefecture Of police. while detectives were
sent TO Choisy-le-Roi. They returned stat
ing that the so-calied Ma -chal was really tn,
well-krown anarchist, Valiant. The latter
was transferred the same night, at . a. m
to the Hospital-called hotel-Dieu, where q
few hours later he voluntarily avowed hi.
crime TO the p-ocureur of the republique
valiant was born at Mezieres DEPART
ment of Ardennes, on December ~ 1861
He is an illegitimate son. His mother live,
at Saint Ouen, near Paris, with an old an.
archist, as mis- wife. In lSS5-'S7 valiant
lived at Montmartre. where he was known
! to have 4 wife and two children. He is OF
high stature. and wears a dark beard Hi.
forehead is wide; his eyes are large. round
and expressive: the ears are large and fan
ping. He had been q socialist revolutionis-
until March, 1883; after that date he be
came an avowed anarchist