The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-11
THE BOMB FIEND CAUGHT.
he is an Anarchist and Was Wounded
By the Explosion.

Caught His Arm and Spoiled His
Aim-He Made the Bomb Himself.
He Has Been a vagabond and a
Thief for Years-He Confesses and
Boasts of His Deed.
Paris, Dec. 10.-August Valiant, alias
Marchal, a resident of the suburb Choisy-
leRoi, is the anarchist who threw the
bomb in the Chamber of Deputies yester-
day He madea confession this morning.
All last night the officials of the pre-
lecture of police were verifying the state
ments and examining the names of sus-
pects The first name to challenge their
attention was that of Valiant. Several
detectives remarked that this
man had long been known as
an anarchist of the extreme type-a
ranter who surpassed all his comrades re-
Gently in the violence of his language.
Upon searching the records the officials
found full biography of valiant, whose
career justified all that the detectives had
said of him.
DETECTIVES TRY TO PUMP HIM.
Four detectives then went to the Hotel
Dieu and sought the bed upon which
Valiant lay suffering from many wounds.
In reply to their questions he said that
his name was Marchal, and that he lived
in Choisy-Le-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, before talking more. When the
detectives pressed him, nevertheless, for
answers, he grew angry, turned over in
bed and refused to speak. The detectives,
convinced that he was either a principal
or an 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 well into the morning.
THE SUSPECT coNFEssEs.
At 8 o'clock the procureur of the re-
public and NJ. Lepine, prefect of police,
arrived at the hotel Dieu After confer
ring with the detectives they went to Vail
lant's bedside. The procureur said, posi-
lively; You are not Marchal, you are
Auguste valiant" Valiant started.
hesitated a moment, then blurted out
pettishly, $50 | am, yes, l am Auguste
Valiant, and l threw the bomb
because I have had enough
OF this blood-sucking bourgeoise society,""
He then told his story with an air of
bravado. He attended the chamber,
he said, for the purpose of throwing the
bomb at M. Dupuy, president of the
House.
WOMAN SPOILED HIS AIM.
A woman who 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. Vaillant's
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, out was prevented by the jauitors.
In concluding his confession Valiant said :
~ am sorry failed. ! hope others who
follow me will be more fortunate. Long
live anarchy"
When questioned in detail regarding
his accomplices ne refused to speak.
MADE THE BOMB HIMSELF.
He admitted that he made the bomb
himself. He took a small iron saucepan,
inserted in it glass tube full of picric
acid, surrounded the tube with 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. Vail
liant further described articles,
which might be found in the
apartment last occupied by him in Paris
This apartment was in the hotel De
Cu4OA4, dJ OU IbuC Id NIu6ETe, WnSfS bu6
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. The
. trunk, he added, was especially danger
Gus, Valiant gave this information piece
meal, interlardlng his statements with
Draggadocio and self-glorifcation.
VISIT TO HIS ROOMS.
After M. Lepine, the prefect. was done
with Valiant, he took MN. Roller aud
Meyer, of the police department, and the
examining magistrate, NJ. Clement, to 50
Rue la Guerre. There they learned that
Valiant had engaged his room one week
ago. In Ii were quantity Of nails and a
bomb in the form of a large saucepan.
This bomb had been made, it is thought,
Tor use in the Chamber of Deputies but
was discarded for the smaller one on ac-
count of its clumsiness and the difficulty
Of concealing it.
THE PRISONER BADLY INJURED.
Valiant was among the spectators de-
tanned in the chamber after the explosion.
his right arm was shattered, his nose
was blown off and his neck and chest
& We're lacerated. He still suffers much
+ pain.
Valiant was born at Mezieres, depart
ment of Ardennes, on Dec. 20, 1851. He is
Tall and dark. and wears a acoarse, heavy
inustache. His features are coarse and
Ilard, and his whole appearance is repel-
iant. Some time ago in the Montmartre
elStrlct, in the rare periods when
ne worked, he was employed in
fancy leather factory as a
Workman on pocket-booBs and handsbags.
he has led rowing life. He settled at
ohe time in Buenos Ayres. Soon after re-
turning to France, he married. This was
~ SS7, His wife bore himftwo children.
tie deserted her, as he was too lazy to
support such a family. He became a
enlet and vagabond, and was convicted
Aye times of petty crimes
beputy Lemiere, who was badly in
2gred by the explosion, was removed from
.he chamber to his home in the course of
INC night. His physician says that he is
nproving, though at intervals he is mo-
flonless and speechless.
The woman who checked Vaillant's
rrm when he threw the bomb was badly
pounded on the face ana neck.
Fremier Casimir-Perier, M. Dupuy and
Ptners have been overwhelmed to-day
Nllh congratulatory letters and tele-
rams. Many kilograms came from for
tlgn countries.
GUMLoTIER's SKULL FRACTURED.
len Of those who were wounded in the
amber yesterday were removed to the
4VIel lJleu. one of the principal hospitals
fars. The gravest case, was that of
*. Gulllotier, whose skull was fractured
ne skull was successfully trepanned