Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-12-14
- Glories in His Work of De-
a struction.
MAS A VICTIM OF HIS OWN CRIME
Hls Arm Shattered and His
M Nose Blown Off.


iuten caused mere Dy dynamite outrage
ssmmit''d siss, within the Chamber of D'pa'
5While the House was in session this
( Wternoon, a stranger who was occupying
n seat in the gallery threw dynamite
s Bomb to the floor of the chamber.
As the bomb struck it exploded with
terriiic noise and pieces Of the metal cas-
Ing were thrown in every direction.
l Deputy Abbe Lemaire and six Others
were hit and seriously injured. NJ. Le-
maire is said to be dying.
KILLED AN USHER.
N II has been learned that time fuse was
httached to the homb and that the explo,
sion occurred before the missile reached
The floor of the chamber.
The bomb burst close to the head of NJ.
n Lemairc and instantly killed an usher who
was standing near by.
NA An American lady who was in the
8publc gallery received a slight wound on
the forehead. Two other ladies who were
an the lower gallery were injured.
~ A man who was sitting next to the
Z {bomb-thrower was wounded.
VI THE MEMBERS PAYTc-sTRIcKEN.
|M The bomb was thrown from an upper
+ gallery. All the members of the House
and all the people in the galleries were
Y panic-stricken.
LOADED WITH HORSESHOE NAILS.
A reporter picked up from the floor of
the, House bits of metal and horseshoe
nails, which had evidently been loaded
Unto the bomb with the explosive.
After considerable delay order was re-
stored among the members and the bust
ness OF the chamber was resumed.
Nj PARIS, Dec. 10--The man who threw the
bomb in the Chamber of Deputies YES
terday afternoon is in the custody of the
A. police. He was among the injured,
having his arm shattered and his nose
Blown off. AS he was about to throw
fhe missile his arm was seized by a.
Woman sitting near him, and although
abe could not prevent its being thrown,
she spoiled his aim. After the explo.
sion he tried to make his escape, but the
doofs were closed and he could not get
Qpt.SHis name is Auguste Valiant, alias
: Mhrchal, a resident of the suburb of
.tGboisy-le-Roi. He made confession this
morning.
NAll last evening the officials of the
Ffefecture of Police were verifying the
Statements and examining the names of
snspects. The first name TO challenge
their attention was that of Valiant.
Several detectives remarked that this
lman had long been known as an
N Aranter, who had surpassed all his COM
rades recently in the violence of his
Language. Upon searching the records
the officials found Il full biography of
x valiant, whose career justified all that
the detectives had said of him.
M -Four detectives then went to the
Hotel Dieu and sought the bed ON
(which Valiant lay suffering from many
kVn In 40 l,tr
said that his name was Marchal, and
that he lived in Choisy-le-Roi. When
asked for more information he pleaded
that the shattered condition OF his nerves
lncapacitated him TO talk Coherentlv.
y He must sleep, he said, before talking
Z more. When the detectives pressed him
flnevertheless for answers he grew angry,
burned over in bed, and refused to
epeak. The detectives, convinced that
be was either principal or accomplice in
4 The plot against the Deputies, continued
4 their efforts to draw him out. As the
Wrench police say, they "salted" him.
n othing was learned, however, until
Well into the morning.
At 9 O'Clock the procureur of the re-
public and M. Lepine, Project of Police,
arrived at the Hotel Dieu. After con-
4 terring with the detectives they went to
fNaillant's bedside. The procureur said
positively;
W "You are not Marchal; you are
Auguste Valiant" :
~ valiant started, hesitated moment,
ihen blurted out, pettishly: $50 | am.
'Hes, am Auguste Valiant, and |
tbrew the bomb, because | have had
Enough of this bloodsucking, bourgeoise
spciety."
INTENDED TO THROW THE BOMB AT
I NJ. DuPuY.
He then told his story with an air of
bravado. He attended the chamber, he
said, for the purpose of throwing the
bpmb at Nj. Dupuy, President OF the
house. A woman who sat next to him,
seeing him prepare to throw the bomb,
tiled TO seize his arm. She failed in the
yattempt, but spoiled his aim. The bomb
Struck the cornice of the public gallery
and exploded. Vaillant's injuries were
80 severe that he fell to the floor. When,
The panic started in the chamber he
tried, as did many others, to escape, but
was prevented by the janitors. In con-
cluding his confession Valiant said: II
am sorry failed. l hope others who
follow me will be more Fortunate Long
live anarchy.
4 NJ 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,
Inserted in it glass tube full of picric
apid, 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 one of his pockets.
Naillant further described articles
which might be found in the apartment
last occupied by him in Paris. This
6partment was in the Hotel De L Union,
No. 80 Rue Laguerre, where the prisoner
mas known as Marchal. He tried to
fsighten the police by saying they would
% well to handle the articles with great
care, lest they explode. The trunk, he
added, wa' especially dangerous. Vail
lunt gave this information piecemeal, in
y terlarding his statements with bragga-
docio and -glorification.
glf ANOTHER BOMB FOUND.
4 After Nj. Lepine, the prefect, was done
with Valiant, he took NM. Roller and
Meyer of the police department, and
the examining magistrate, NJ. Clement,
n 10 No. 80 Rue Laguerre. There they
; learned that Valiant had engaged his
& room one week ago. In it were a
quantity of nails and bomb in the
4 form of large saucepan. This bomb