Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-02-23
BOURDIN'S REMAINS INFERRED.
Expectation of Conflict With til
Police appointed.

Expectation OF Conflict With the
Police Disappointed.
LONDON, Feb. 23.-The undertakers' es-
tablishment on Chapel street, where the re-
mains of Bourdin, the anarchist who was
fatally injured by the premature explo-
sion of his own bomb in Greenwich Park
on February Is, was surrounded by crowds
of excited spectators, including many an
archists. from the earliest morning hours
The cause of this gathering was the fact
that this was the day fixed for the funeral
of Bourdin and many people anticipated
a riotous demonstration upon the part of
those in sympathy with the doctrines
preached by the dead man.
There was a strong force of uniformed
police and detectives stationed in and about
Chapel street and when the anarchists at
tempted to remove the body to one of their
meeting places in F'itzroy square, where
they intended that their leaders should de-
liver orationS over the remains, the police
interfered and ordered the body to be con-
veyed to Finchley cemetery by another
route.
All the windows and doors of the houses
about Chapel street were barricaded in an
ticipation of serious conflict between the
police and the anarchists.
The chapel street undertaken yesterday
received postal card. upon which was
written: Beware of anti-anarchist
bomb at that murderer's funeral"
The hearse was followed by one coach
and started through the dense crowds sur
rounded by mounted police. The superin-
tendent OF police, who was in charge of
the funeral refused to allow any vehicles
other than the solitary coach mentioned to
follow the hearse on its way to the ceme-
terry, and the police also refused to allow
any procession to follow Che remains. The
anarchist sympathizers were compelled 10
take different routes to the cemetery, or
else follow very far behind the hearse.
Previous to the departure of the hearse
.trr1 Of r.l,s~ a
and became in other ways entirely too dem
onstrative.
This caused the police to make a charge
in the direction of the red flag. and, after a
short scuffie. the banner of anarchy was
captured and carried away to the nearest
police station.
Shortly after this another red flag was
thrown to the breeze not far from the spot
where the first one was seized. Again the
police turned their attention to tie red
bunting. another short scuflie between the
anarchists and the policemen ensued and the
second flag was captured.
The great majority of those present were
people who had been guided the scene by
curiosity or by desire 70 witness a battle
between the police and anarchists. Every
body expected trouble and all had come pre-
pared for a disturbance. The men. as a
rule, carried heavy walking sticks and the
police had large reserve forces stationed
within easy call.
The detectives who mingled by hundreds
among the people assembled in the neigh
borhood, had strict orders 10 watch people
who might be supposed likely to De carry
ing bombs.
The anarchists present laughed at these
precautions and frequently asserted, in sub
stance, that they were not id fools to
blow themselves out of England, the only
country where an anarchist can live in
peace"
Here and there among the crowds could be
heard strong expressions condemnlnS the
anarchists and asserting that IL was Fly
all anarchists could rot be hoisted with
their own petards, DIS Bourdin was
Others pronounced themselves as being
in favor of hanging all anarchists to the
nearest lamp post, and one man who shout
ed "vive L anarchie," as the hearse was
moving away, was so roughly handled by
those around him that he was a mass of
rags and bruises when he succeeded in es-
Gaping.
The authorities did not succeed in pre-
venting two professions from accompany
ing Bourdins remains part of the way to
the grave, one procession streaming along
through the streets to the right, followed
by the hearse, and the other trailing along
to the left of the route.
Mourning badges and red neckties could
be seen.
AS the remains were being lowered into
the earth an anarchist leader named Quinn
made an attempt to address the crowd.
He was hoisted upon the shoulders of
some of his friends. and had begun with:
Men and brothers. The remains of a
martyr have just
That was all of the Grafton which was
heard for Quinn and his friends were
roughly charged upon by the police, and
the orator was seized and removed from the
cemetery.
During the afternoon a crowd, composed
Of medical students and others, marched to
the Autonomie Club, the recently raided
headquarters of the anarchists and smash
ed all the windows of that establishment,
while threatening to burn it to the ground.
A force of police was hastily sent to the
spot and number of arrests were made