St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-11
VALIANT THE VILLAIN.
An Anarchist Seoundrel
Threw the Paris Bomb.
He rs CAPTURED IN A HOSPITAL
And Makes a Full Confession
Of His Crime.
EXPLOSIVE AIMED At DUPUY
The Fiend Expresses Regret
That 1t Missed Him.

The Fiend Expresses Regret
That 1t Missed Him.
ST0RY0F THE CHAMBER HORROR
PARIS, Dec. 10.-After day of great
excitement following the explosion OF
the bomb in the chamber of deputies,
the authorities have announced that
they have the bomb thrower Id custody.
His name is Marchal. He is an anarch-
list, and has made full confession.
News to the effect that the bomb throw
er was in the hands of the police was
received at noon today, but the report
was not confirmed until the official an
nouncement was made this evening,
and now Paris will sleep easier and
await the developments of the morning.
Marchal, it appears, was among the in
jured persons taken to the Hotel Dieu.
the large hospital OH the north of Place du
ApIrYis, Notre Dame. Marchal soon fell
under the suspicion of the authorities,
and, pressed by the police, he decided
TO make full confession, and did so,
glorying in his dastardly crime. The
discovery of
THE ANARCHIST FIEND
was made IN the following manner:
Among the persons questioned by the
police yesterday evening was a man
whose nose was almost blown off by the
explosion of the bomb in the chamber
of deputies yesterday afternoon. The
suspect gave the name of Valiant, and
said that be lived at ChOiSy le ROi.
This man, who was attended by the
physicians summoned to the refresh
ment room of the chamber after the eX-
plOsIun, was taken to the Hotel Dieu,
after being examined by the prefect of
police. At the hospital mentioned, the
suspect was carefully watched by four
detectives. 1t was noticed that he gave
the name of MarchaI when his ''pedi-
gree" was taken upon entering the
Hotel Dieu. This was reported to the
authorities and confirmed the suSpi-
cions already entertained, and several
detectives were Immediately started
out with instructions to spend the
night in establishing the iden-
tity of Marchal, and to furnish
a complete report of the man and his
surroundings. This was done. The
detectives worked quickly apd cleverly
on the case, and by morning the prefect
of police was in possession of severa!
police reports concerning the suspect.
which, upon being Joined together and
considered, made it clear to the authori-
ties that the man in the Hotel Dieu,
with his
NOSE ALMOST BLOWN OFF,
was a dangerous anarchist named Vail
ant, who was born at MeZiers. a strongly
fortified town of about 5000 people in the
department of Ardennes. Vailant,it was
also reported by the police, is thirty-ive
years of age, and had lived rowing
life. During this rowing Valiant passed
several years in Buenos AYres, and in
1887 he returned to France and married.
lie now has two children. Valiant,
however, soon deserted his wife. Still
according to the police reports, since
1854 Valiant has been identified with
branches of the socialists and with reg
ular anarchists. He made himself
prominent by the incendiary nature oi
his speeches and by his bitter de
nunciations of the BOurgeoise. anC
eventually became member OF the
revolutionary socialist group of the
eighteenth reimbursement of Paris
This, in brief. is the cream of the repor
of the detectives who worked up the
case during the night. Early in the day
M. Lepin, the prefect of police, The
public prosecutor and the examining
magistrate visited the Hotel Dieu anC
had a long interview with Valiant, wht
claimed innocence and was quite indig
nant at the nature of the questions pu
to him by the different officials. FINAL,
the public prosecutor said to the sus
pect:
Your name is Valiant, and not Mar
chal, as claimed when you came to tn
hospital"
After a moment of hesitation the sus
pected man admitted his identity an,
confessed that he had thrown the bomb
which in exploding
INJURED A HRNDRED PEOPLE.
When questioned as to his reasons fo
throwing the bomb, Valiant replied de
family:
81 wished to deal a thoroughly dra
matte blow at the institutions of tn
country and wished to cause great eX
cltement. / endeavored to aim tn
bomb at NJ. Dupuy, the president of til
chamber of deputies. glory in the act
and | only regret that my hand swerved
and the bomb did not explode near til
mark"
This bold and defiant statement frol
the lips of the bandaged prisoner cause
sensation, even among the stern off
ciais of the law, who were accuStome
TO startling situations and used to a
kinds of surprises. There was so muc
bitter hatred in the anarchists tone a
he delivered his defiance and glorifie
in his crime that even the public prose
cutor started and seemed to grow pale
Valiant i'll appearance is a big blond
man with a heavy moustache and
hardened expression of countenanc,
which seemed to loom up with strang
fire as he described with much gust
how the bomb was used. The BON
saucepan was loaded with. he said,
number of nails which he found on I'll
floor of the chamber. Inside the sauc
pan was a tube with a compressed cel
ter. In the tube were picraci acid an
prussate of soda, these being separate
at the point where the tube was cor
pressed by small ball Of cotton
CHARGED WITH SULPHURIC ACID
which at given moment would be 60
sumed by the sulphuric acid thus {