The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1893-12-15
STARTLING CRIME.
The Deed Of an Anarchist In
Paris.
He throws q Bomb Among tho Deputies
Eighty Persons Injured by the Exc
plosion-PromPt Arrest OF
the Villain.

In the chamber of deputies Saturday
afternoon without fatalities, though
many persons were badly wounded.
The usual number of members present
when no matter of great importance is
to be considered We're in their seats,
and the business Of the house was pro.
ceeding sleepily. The galleries con-
tanned number Of visitors, including
some ladies, who watched the proceed
ings with little interest
In the gallery above the benches oc-
cupied by the members of the right
were number of strangers, none of
whom had attracted any attention
when they entered the gallery. In the
course of business of the house the
election of NJ. Mierman came up for
discussion. NJ. Mierman had been
speaking and had just descended to his
seat when man In the gallery threw
bomb toward the floor of the house.
The bomb must have had Thine fuse
attached to it, for as it passed the head
OF Pref Lemiere, deputy for Haze
tsruck, it exploded with terrific re-
port.
A dense cloud of dust and smoke az
cended, shutting out from view for d
time those sitting in the bSaas- of the
house. For single instant the house
was perfectly quiet, and then, the
naernber and others realizing what
had occurred, there was the widest ex-
element.
The officers detailed to guard the
chamber were the first to regain their
senses They at once shut the doors
leading to the chamber to prevent the
escape of the bomb thIower. Ths peo-
pie in the galleries fled, fearing that
ether bombs would be thrown. They
were in state bordering on frenzy
end almost fell over each other in their
wild but futile haste to get out OF the
building. One lady, who, it was subse-
quently learned, was an American, had
been hit on the forehead by a piece Of
The casing Of the bomb, and she fled
with blood streaming over her face.
On the floor of the house the excite
ment was fully as great as that in the
galleries. Many of the members
rushed for the exits, fearing every mo-
ment to hear another explosion.
M. Dupuy, the president of the cham
Der, was apparently the coolest man in
the chamber. Two ladies, besides the
American in the-1owef gallery, were
injured. A man sitting beside the
bomb thrower was also wounded The
deputies wourded were: Prof Able
Lemiere, Count Paul Henri Lanjuinas
and NJ. Leffel.
Up to Saturday evening fifty wounded
persons had passed through the hands
of DIR. Blet alone. Altogether there are
over eighty persons wounded.
THE MAN ARRESTED.
PARIS, Dec. 11.-Aftef q day of great
excitement, following the explosion OF
the bomb in the chamber OF deputies,
the authorities have announced they
have the bomb thrower in custody.
The miscreant is named Marchal He is
an anarchist, and has made full con-
fession. Marchal, it appears, was
among the injured persons taken to the
Hotel Dieu, the large hospital on the
north of the Place du Pa-vis, Notre
Dame. Marcha1 soon fell under the
sus oicion of the authrities, and pressed
by the project of police he decided to
make n full confession, and did so,
glorying in his dastardly crime.
The discovery of the fiend was made
in the following manner: Among the
persons questioned by the police was a
man whose nose was almost blown of
by the explosion of tho fatal bomb.
The suspect gave the name of Valiant,
and said he lived at Chosy lie Rot This
man, who was attended by the physi-
clans summoned to the refreshment
room of the chamber after the explo-
sion, was taken to the Hotel Dieu after
being examined by the project of po-
lice.
Valiant, it was also reported by the
police, is IS years old and had lived
rowing life. During this rowing Vail
liant passed several years in Buenos
France and married He now has two
children. Valiant, however, soon de-
serted his wife. Valiant has been
identified with the extremist branch of
the socialists and with the regular
anarchist groups He made himself
prominent by the incendiary nature Of
his speeches and by his bitter denuncia-
tions of the tbourgeoise, and eventually
became a member of the committee of
revolutionary socialists of the Eight
zenith reimbursement of Paris. This,
N brief, is the cream of the report of
detectives who worked up the case
The man admitted his identity
and confessed he had thrown the bomb
which, in exploding, wounded nearly a
hundred people in the chamber Of
deputies. When questioned as to his
reasons for attempting to kill so many
people. Valiant replied defiantly: 81
wished to deal a thoroughly dramatic
blow at the institutions of the country,
and wished to causo a great sensation
1 endeavored to aim the bomb at NJ.
Dupuy (the president of the chamber
Of deputies). glory in the act, and
snly regret my hand swerved and that
ihe bomb did not explode near the
mark"