New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-12-11
THE BOMB-THROWER FOUND.
M DUPUYS DEATH HIS OBJECT
c1oRyING IN THE HAVOC HE WROUGHT IN
THE FRENCH CHAMBER
TIE PRISONER A NOTED ANARCHIST

BADLY INJURED HIMSELF ny TIE EXPLOSION
THE MscREANT, AUGUsTE VALIANT. TELLS
HOW HE MADE THE BOMB, AND DIRECTS
THE POLICE TO HIS ROOM-HIS DISREpU-
r,p1r CAREER-THE CABINET DIS
crssING ANTI-ANARCnIsT MEASURES
THE VICTIMS OF TIE TERRIBLE
DISASTER DOING WE'LL.
par,s Dec 10.-Auguste valiant ahas Mar
cha, n resident of the suburb Choisy-le-Roi'
&c the Anarchist who threw the bomb In the
chamber of Deputies yesterday. lie made
confession this morning.
An last evening the officials at the Prefecture
- police were verifying the statements and ex-
amining the names of suspects. The first name
70 challenge their attention was that of Vail
,o,t Several detectives remarked that this man
had long been known as an Anarchist Oh the
extrene type-a ranter who had surpassed all
bis comrades recently in the violence OF his
Language Upon searching the records the
officials found a full biography of Valiant,
whose career justified all that the detectives
had said OF him.
Four detectives then went to the Hotel Dieu
lone of the principal hospitals OF Parls
and sought ths bed on which Valiant lay
suffering from many wounds. In reply to their
o,est,ons he said that his name was Marchal
and that he lived in Choisy-le-Roy. When
asked for more information he pleaded that
the shattered condition Of his nerves incapaci-
tated him from talking coherently. He must
Steep he insisted, before talking more. When
the detectives pressed him for answers he grew
angry, turned over in bed, and refused to
speak. The detectives, convinced that he was
either principal accomplice in the plot
against the Deputies. continued their efforts to
draw him out AS the French police say. they
"salted" him. Nothing was learned. however,
until we'll into the morning. AT o'clock the
Procureur Of the Republic and NJ Lepine. Pre-
feet of Police, arrived at the Hotel Dieu. After
conferring with the detectives they went to
Vaillants bedside. The Procureur said posi-
lively:
You are not Marchal, you are Auguste
Valiant"
Valiant started, hesitated a moment, then
blurted out pettishly: 80 am. Yes. l am
Auguste Valiant and 1 threw the bomb, be-
cause have had enough of this bloodsucking
bourgeois society"
THE ANARCHIST DESCRIBES HIS CRIME.
He then told his story with an air OF bra
vado He attended the Chamber, he said, for
the purpose of throwing the bomb at NJ
Dupuy the President Of the House. woman
hwh, sat next to him. seeing him prepare to
throw the bomb. tried to seize his arm. She
failed in the attempt, but spoiled his aim. The
bomb struck the cornice of the public gallery
and exploded Vaillants injuries were so severe
that he fell to the floor. When the panic
started in the Chamber he tried, as did many
others, to escape. but was pre- rented by the
Janitors
oi6
am sorry failed hope others who follow me
will be more fortunate. Long live Anarchy
When questioned in detail regarding his ac-
completes he refused to speak. He admitted
that he made the bomb himself. He took a
small iron saucepan, inserted in it a 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 filed up the saucepan with nails and bits
Of iron He easily carried the bomb in one
OF his pockets.
Valiant further described articles which might
be found in the apartment last occupied by him
in Paris This apartment was in the Hotel de
rUnion, No. so Rue Laguerre. where the pris-
oner was known as Marchal He tried TO fright
en- the police by saying they would do well to
handle the articles with great care lest they ex-
plode. The trunk. he aided. was especially dan
gerous. valiant gave this information piece
meal, interlarding his statements with bragga-
docio and Standardization.
BOMB FOUND IN vAILLANTs ROOM.
After NJ Lepine the Prefect, done with
valiant he took NM. Roller and Meyer, OF the
Police Department. and the examining magis-
trafe M. Clement, to No. so Rue Laguerre.
There the party learned that Valiant had en-
gagged his room one week ago. In it were a
o,A hNv, IN, fOrr Of a
large saucepan. This bomb had been made. it is
thought for use in the Chamber Of Deputies, but
was discarded for the smaller one on account Of
its clumsness and the difficulty Of concealing it,
Valiant was among the spectators detained in
the Chamber after the explosion. His right arm
was shattered his nose was blown off and his
neck and chest were lacerated. He still suffers
much pain.
The prisoner will be further examined to-
morrow In the mean time the police are hard at
work making inquiries and searches
THE wOULD-BE AssAssIN's CAREER.
Valiant was born at Mozieres. Department Of
Ariennes. on December 20, 1861. He is tall and
dark and wears heavy mustache. His features
are coarse and hard, and his whole appearance
is repellant Some time ago in the Montmartre
District, in the rare periods when he worked. ne
was employed in a fancy-eather factory as
workman on pocketbooks and hand bags lie
has led rowing life. He was settled at one
time in Buenos Ayres. Soon after returning to
France he married. in 1887. His wife bore him
two children and ne deserted her. as he was toe
lazy to support such a family. He became
vagabond and thief and was convicted five times
Of petty crimes.
He has been in Anarchist and Socialist poll
tics since 1884 He first professed Socialism, bu
that school was too moderate for him and ne
soon abandoned 1t to become an Anarchist. he
still retained his membership in the Sociahs
group of the Eighteenth Ward. however. Re-
Gently he has been managing the office OF ar
Anarchist periodical.