The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-12-11
LONG LIVE ANARCHY.
The Cry Of the Bomb ThroWer in
the French Chamber.
A CONFESSION DRAWN FROM THE
MUTILATED WRETCH.

He Was Terribly Injured Himself, His
Nose and Arm Being Shattered and His
Chest Lacerated-His Bomb Was Made
of a Saucepan and Loaded With Explo-
sives and Nails-It Injured Eighty
People-Coolnesso of the Deputies
Paris, Decem ber 0.-AugusteVaill
Alias Marchal, resident of the suburb
of Choisy-le-Roi, is the Anarchist who
threw the bomb in the Chamber of
Deputies yesterday. He made confess
sion this morning. Veillant has long
been know to the detectives as an
Anarchist of the extreme type. Upon
searching the records, the officials found
full biography of Valiant. Four
detectives went to the Hotel Dieu and
sought the bed on which Valiant lay
suffering from many wound. He said
his name was Marchal nd that he lived
in Choisy-..e-R Roi. When asked for more
information. he pleaded that the shat
tered condition of his nerves incapacitated
him to talk coherently. He must sleep
he said, b efore talking more. When the
detectives pressed him for answers, he
grew angry and refused to speak. The
detectives continued their efforts to draw
him out. Nothing was learned, how
ever, until well into the morning. At
8 o'clock the procureur of the republic
and M. Lepine, prefect of the police,
arrived at Vaillant's bedside. The pro-
cureur said positively: "You are not
MarchaJ. You are Auguste Valiant" :"
valiant started. He waited moment
aid then blurted out pettishly: $50 I
threw the bomb because I had had
enough of this blo"S sucking burgeois
society,""
He then told the story with an air of
bravado. He attended the chamber, he
says, for the purpose of throwing th
bomb at M. Dupuy, president Of the
house. A woman who sat next him,
seeing him prepare to throw the bomb,
tried to seize his arm. She failed but
spoiled his aim. The bomb struck the
cornice of the public gallery and ex-
ploded Vaillant's injuries were SO
severe that he fell to the floor. When
the panic started in the chamber, he
tried to escape. but was prevented by
the janitor. In concluding his confession,
Valiant said: 81 ain sorry I failed. I
hope others who follow me will be more
fortunate. Long live anarchy"
When questioned in detail regarding
his accomplices, he refused to speak. He
admitted that he made the bomb him
self He took small iron saucepan
and inserted in it glass tube full of
picric acid, surrounded the tube with
cotton wool and prussiate of soda, the
cotton wool being saturated with
sulphuric acid, and then filled up the
saucepan with nails and bits of iron. He
easily carried the bomb in his pocket.
Valiant further desert bed the articles
which might be found in the apartment
| last occupied by him in Paris. This
apartment was in the Hotel de la Union,
50 Rue Laguerre, where the prisoner was
| known as Marchal. He tried to frighten
the police by saying they would do well
| to handle the articles with great care,
lest they explode. His trunk, he added,
was especially dangerous.
After M. Lepine, the project, was done
with Valiant, he took M. M. Roller and
Meyer of the police department and the
examining magistrates, M. Clement, to
! so Rue la Guerre. There they learned
that Valiant engaged his room a week
! ago. In it were quantity of nails and
bomb, in the form of large saucepan.
This bomb was made, it is thought, for
use in the Chamber of Deputies, but
discarded for the smaller one on account
of it's clunsiness and the difficulty of
| concealing it. VailIant's rig ht arm was
shattered, his nose blown off and his
neck and chest lacerated. He still suffers
much pain. Valiant will be further ex-
amined tomorrow. In the meantime, the
| police are hard at work making in
| quiries and searches. Valiant is 80 years
old. His whole appearance is repellant
| Some time ago, in the Montmarte dis
| tri ct, in the rare periods when he worked,
| he was employed in a fancy leather
| factory as workman on pocket books
and handbags He has led rowing life
and settled at one time in Buenos
Ayres.
valiant deserted MS wife and two
children He was too lazy to support
his family and became vagabond and
thief. He was convicted five times for
petty crimes. He has been an anarchist
and socialist in politics since 1884. Re
Gently he has been managing the Office
an anarcist periodical.
Deputy Lemlre was badly injured by
the explosion. His physicians say he Is
improving. The woman who checked
Va1llant's arm when he threw the bomb
was badly wounded on the face and neck
When Valiant threw the bomb, the
chamber was in the midst of a dis
cussion. The exp losion made a terrific
report For single instant the House
bers and spectators realizing what had
occurred, there was a whirlwind.of
widest excitement. The officers detailed
to guard the chamber were the first to
regain their senses. They at once shut
the great doors leading to the chamber
to prevent the escape of the bomb
thrower. The people in the galleries fled
in wild disorder, fearing that other
bombs would be thrown. They were in
a state bordering on frenzy and almost
fell over each other in their wild but
futile haste to get out of the building.
One lady, who it was subsequently
learned was an American, had been hit
on the forehead by piece of the casing
of the bomb and she fled with blood
streaming over her face On the floor of
the House the excitement was fully as
great as that in the galleries. Many of
the members rushed for the exits, fear
ing every moment to hear another explo
sion. M. Dupuy, the president of the
chamber, was apparently the coolest
man in the chamb ber. AS soon as the
smoke and dust had cleared away the
mem bers. resumed their seats and bust
ness proceeded. NJ. Montfort assembled
the tribune and in perfectly steady
voice took up the discussion of the