New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-12-26
VALIANT AND HIS CRIME.
INTERESTING DETAILS OF THE BOMB EXPLOSION
IN THE FRENCH CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES.

INTERESTING DETAILS OF THE BOMB EXPLOSION
IN THE FRENCH CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES.
The latest Paris newspapers ut hand are hllea
with accounts OF the bonb-throwing which occurred
IN tho Chamber OF Deputies on Saturday December
g. TO the details already transmitted py the capie'
however few Interesting particulars can De hnueu'
The explosion occurred at 400 p. m NJ Mirlihh'
n Socialist professor of mathematics whose election
was disputed had just descended from the tribune
where he had spoken In favor or DIS NaIhatiori'
NJ Dupuy the Speaker. WAS just saying: i am
about call for vote upon the CONCLUSIONS oi the
Sixth Electoral Committee" when. before he mad
finished his sentence, n detonation was heard 40
DO, Ie:n,re n Deputy rolled from his bench. and
frightened cries were heard from every part or the
House. which filed with smoke IL IL certain
that II the bomb had reached the floor many Depi-
ties would have been killed but the arm OF the
Anarchist was jostled by 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.
dlgnihed attitudes maintained by the French Depu-
ties in that awful moment Of suspense. me st,lng
continued without excitement; speeches were made
e. n' regrar ,yor Neanvhns forty seven wounded
persons had been transported ~ the ambulance 10
hospital Professionally established in the gu,
yette or reireshment room OF the d YEN a' 10
their homes as soon as the yates OF the building
mcdateIy after the bomb-throwing a Deputy NJ.
Angeles having gone az once to the sentiheli anu
tod the solder: Close the gates and do not let
anybody 60 out. even II he should tell you ne Is a
a company OF marine Infantry, and these soldiers
hed 10 cross their bayonets 10 prevent the crowd OF
frightened spectators from the galleries from break
hanks that that the numerous d. S
police who did not suppose az first that they ,neid
the author of the explosion. The man was so little
the Paris papers of Monday. two days after the
outrage in The list Of the forty;seven seriously
iant. Augusie H. Rue de Ia Raifneries Choisy-le-
Roi wounded in the nose and the right les lie
where no cards Of aamittHee are nesessa i ana
srS had 50 1q af 6 6 had
been thrown that one OF them u. Mourier. = res
the tribune ne Cthe pulpit where oraiors OF the French
prety strong ne detohaon fooWed As was com
petely ignorant Of parliamentary usages' thought
to announce the end of the speech Of n. Mierman
who was then descending from the tribune"
what similar impression. She thought. seeing the
light that i was the custom In the Chamber to
II was involuntarily that the woman sitting beside
the bomb to strike on the border Of the gallery
instead of on the floor Of the Chamber. As to Vail
Chamber and find an exit through the gates guarded
by the marine infantry. He was hatless, bleeding
and in fury of passion: he smashed with his cane
z window panel Of door. and soldier levelled
his bayonet at him Valiant went then to the re.
freshmen room where he had his wounds bandaged
by DR.. Merlon. Deputy Of the Yonne valiant was
roaming around In several parts of the building
when he noticed by stenOgrapher of the
Chamber. NJ. Paula. VINO called the attention OF
VI. Clement. Commissary Of Police 10 the deTneanor
OF valiant The Anarchist said that he was NJ.
Marchal. living at Chosy-le-Ioi and that ne was
waiting for the reorenng Of the gates In order to
go home. The commssary's suspicious were aroused.
and he sent valiant to the Depot Of the Prefecture
OF Police while detectives sent to Choisy-le.
Ioi They returned stating that the so-called Mar.
chal was really the well-knowr Anarchist. valiant.
The latter was transferred the same night. ut
a. to the Hospital--cac1 Hotel-Dieu. where
few hours later he volun avowed his crime
TO the PrOcureur Of the Republique.
Valiant was born at Mezieres. Department Of
Ardennes, on December o. 1861. lie Is legltI-
mate son. His mother lives ut Sam Ouen, near
Paris. with old Anarchist his wife. In 1861
Valiant lived at Monlmartre. where he known
10 have a wife and two children lie Is Of high
stature and q dark beard. His forehead Is
wide: his eyes large. round and expressive: the
ears large and tapping. He had been a Social
iat Revolutionist until March 1856: after that date
he became an avowed Anarchist.