Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-12-14

of its clumsiness and the difficulty of
concealing IL.
HIS ARM SHATTERED AND his NOSE
BLOWN OFF.
valiant was among the spectators
detained in the chamber after the ex-
plosion. His right arm was shattered,
bis nose was blown off, and his neck
and chest were lacerated. He still
suffers much pain.
valiant was born at Mezieres, De-
partment of Ardennes, on December
goth, 1861. He is tall and dark, and
wears coarse, heavy moustache. 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, he
was employed in fancy leather factory
as q workman on pocket-books and
hand bags He has led rowing life.
He was settled at one time in Buenos
Ayres. Soon after returning to France
he married. This was in 1887. His
wife bore him two children, and he
deserted her, as he was too lazy to sup
port such family. He became thief
and vagabond, and was convicted five
times OF petty crimes.
He has been in Anarchist and Socialist
politics since 1884. He first professed
Socialism, but that school was too
moderate for him, and he soon aban-
doDed it to become an Anarchist and a
preacher of the propaganda of the
creed. He still retained his member
ship OF the Socialist group of the
Eighteenth ward, however. Recently
he has been managing the office of an
Anarchist periodical.
DEPUTY LEMtRE IMPROVING.
Deputy Lemire, who was badly in
jured by the explosion, was removed
from the chamber to his home in tho
course of the night. His physicians say
that he is improving, though at intervals
he is motionless and speechless.
The woman who checked Vaillant's
arm when he threw the bomb was badly
wounded on the face and reck.
Premier Casimir-Perler, M. Dupuy
and others have been overwhelmed to-
day with congratulatory letters and tele-
grams. Many kilograms come from
foreign countries.
1t is reported that the French Govern
ment will appeal to the Government of
England to refuse domlcile to Anar-
chists.
Vaillants trunk in his apartment in
the Hotel De L'Union was opened this
evening, and was found to contain moth
ing of an explosive nature. Everything
in the room was removed to the Palace
of Justice.
PARIS, Dec. 1.-THE outrage in the
Chamber of Deputies, Saturday, is about
the only topic of conversation in the
public resorts of this city. 1t is the
general opinion that the time has ar
rived when the government must put
aside all maudlin sentiment and treat
these Anarchists and would-be muir
derers with scant consideration, and
that this will be done scarcely any one
doubts.
1t is believed that every Anarchist
and all their sympathizers should he
hunted to earth and punishment fitted
to their dasturdly crimes meted out to
them.
DEFENDERS OF THE OUTRAGE.
Now that Auguste Valiant, the
bomb-thrower, has fallen into the hands
of the police, after doing all the evil he
possibly could, he is not lacking de-
tenders or papers that will publish
the secrets of his sympathizers. A
Socialist named Pembjean has written a
letter TO the Temps defending Valiant,
and that paper published it. Pembjean,
among other rawlings, says that the deed
committed by Valiant will have the
| approval of most Anarchists. Nobody
doubts this statement, as cowardly at.
tacks upon unsuspecting men, women
and children is the distinguishing feature
Of anarchist warfare.
ANARCHISTS ARE cowARDs.
The fact is cynically commented upon
that an Anarchist never displays any
courage until he is safely locked up,
aud his bravery consists of vaunting
himself and his fellow criminals, safe in
the knowledge that the law he processes
to hold in contempt will protect him
from the popular consequences of his
cowardly crimes. 1t is pointed out that
no Anarchist has yet had the courage to
attack even one man, where the indi-
yldual would have an opportunity to
| defend himself.
POPULAR DEMAND FOR JUSTICE.
To say that popular feeling against
the Anarchists is extremely bitter is to
put it very mildly, and the popular de-
mand for sternly repressive measures is
certain to force the government to adopt
far more stringent precautions than any
that have yet marked the counter reyo-
luton against the lawless.
THE USUAL SORT OF VILLAIN.
The story of Vaillants life is about
the same as that of all these Anarchist
"heroes." Of course he has mistress.
She is a woman named Marchal, which
maine, by the way, was the alias of
| Valiant. Her husband states that after
Valiant led his wife astray he got her
to sell the furniture of her home, and
afterwards, in his endeayors to do away
with the wrongs of society, lived on the
proceeds OF tine sale until they were
! gone. Then the woman was forced to
go to work, and still meditating upon
the method of rightiug the wrongs of
the suffering people, he remained idle
and lived OIL the money earned by
the woman he had ruined and
disgraced When M. Marchal en-,
dcayored to get his wife to aban-
don her evil life, Valiant, fearing
that his means of livelihood would be
taken from him, threatened to kill him
| if he did not leave the woman alone.
WAITING FOR SOMETHING TO HAPPEN.
NJ Berger, a member of the Chamber
of Deputies, says that Saturday he
noticed about 80 men waiting at the ell
trance to the chamber, all of whom were
trying to gain admission. Just before
the explosion occurred a group of these
men were seen in the front of one of the
galleries seemingly waiting for some
thing to happen.