New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-12-12
VALIANT TO BE TRIED IN JANUARY
POLICE SEARCHING FOR HIS FRIENDSHIP
WANTED TO TIICAsSEE THE DEP
ITTFS"-UIS EVIT. TICE

| pOIlCh SEARCHING FOR HIS FRlENDS-HE
WANTED TO " FIICAssEE THE DEP
| UTIES"-HIs EVIL LIFE.
| Paris. Dec. 11.-Vaillant the bomb-thrower has
chosen NJ. Albert Cremieux his advocate. His
trial will take place during the first fortnight in
| January.
| Three other who have been arrested are
| kept in cells. The police seeking for two men
named Raynal and Confeix. alias Gouffe friends OF
Valiant. who worked in the place as valiant
Among the versions told OF the examination OF
Valiant is to the effect that he laughingly
told the examining magistrate that he would
like 10 make a frcassee Of those - Deputies
What harm have the Deputies done TO you?
asked the magistrate.
Valiant replied: They have done no harm tc
me personally. but they the sort OF people II
is well to get rid off,
| And you did the deed without thinking that
| you have n wife and chld?'
| "My wife and daughter will do as well without
! as with me-" valiant replied
The story of Vaillants life is about the same as
that of all Anarchist heroes" lie has a mistress
named Marchal. which the alias Of valiant.
Her husband states that after Valiant led his wife
| astray. he got her sell the furniture of her
home. and afterward. in his endeavOrs to do away
with the wrongs of society lived on the proceeds
of the sale until they were gone. Then the woman
was forced go to work. Still meditating upon
the method of righting the Of the suffering
people Valiant remained idle and lived off the
money earned by the woman he had ruined ana
disgraced. When N. Marchal endeavored to get
his wife to abandon her evil life. Valiant fearing
that his means Of livelihood would be taken from
him. threatened to Kill him II he did not leave the
woman alone.
Va!llants criminal record made public this
evening He was condemned by the courts for the
first time in 1875 at Chareviie. He then was sen>
fenced to a weeks Imprisonment for vagrancy.
Two or three months later he was sentenced IN
tlr.a 1a
In Algiers a year later. he was imprisoned three
months for theft In 1851 he received sentence Oh
one month for theft.
Two weeks ago Valiant published In la
Revolte" a request that Socialist AMI Anarchist
authors send their books 10 him 10 form popular
library. A detective sent TO look up the
source OF the advertisement. After he had OBJ
tanned from Valiant full statement or his
opinions. he reported that valiant was most
violent Anarchist.
Some interesting details OF the bomb-throwers
recent life have been ascertaned to-day The
philosophical society of which he is member OBJ
tained few weeks ago the Mayors permission
to meet in the Town Hall. NJ Coientin' professor
OF physical sciences in large private college
was induced to take the presidency OF the society.
and at its meetings he frequently came In contact
TrtT Trenchman' Of the highest standing in Chosy
le-Roi, he has caused much surprise by dec,airne
man, fitted by his education for q much better
business than leather cutting He always I'M
man VINO had suffered much. His conversation
with me showed much bitterness and a desire 70
avenge his wrongs. He was full OF the spirit or
Jules Gucsde. Ernest Roche. Rouanet an1 s'v.
names as his friends aclJnowiedge that they know
HIN slghtiy; bgt all deny that they were ever
About fifty detectives in varied disguises are IN
Haanc ior'"Sr Se an ;be authors
Of the explosion in the Rue des Bons Enfants.