Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-02-13
GLORIES IN HIS ACT
OIUnIcC TN HIS MI
Anarchist Breton Says: 1.-THE People
Are a Wretched Lot"
HANS Won BULOW, PIANIST, DEAD
Admiral Da Cana in a Critical
Condition.
GENERAL FOREIGN MATTERS

PARIS Feb. 13.-Leon Breton, the an
archist waiter who last night threw a
bomb into a cafe situated beneath the
Hotel Terminus, opposite the st. Lazare
railroad station, behaves with the most
cynical effrontery. When asked this
morning II he had ever before appeared in
| police court the prisoner sneeringly re-
marked: TT is not my custom to fire.
Quent such places"
In answer to further questions Breton
said that he had fired his revolver at the
police because in chasing him after he had
thrown the bomb they drew their swords
against him
The prisoner was here Interrupted by one
Of the policemen, who exclaimed: "You
fired on US when we were the persons pro-
tecting you from being torn to pieces by
the people"
To this Breton replied: THAT proves
that the people are a wretched lot. In any
case, whether I die now or two months
later, does not matter a straw to me-"
The prisoner then resumed a coarse.
chatting tone and seemed to glory in the
notorety which he had earned by his
desperate con0uct Of last night
Twenty Persons Injured.
1t is now estimated that twenty or more
persons, were injured by Breton's bomb
and that five persons were wounded by
the revolver shots which he fired while
being pursued by or struggling with the
police.
Among the injured persons in the cafe
was NJ. Beck, architect of the chamber
Of deputies. who is wounded in the arms
and legs. and a man named Van Heer, who
has eight bullet wounds in his leg. An
other man named Michel is wounded by
pieces of shell.
Crowds OF persons are visiting the neigh
borhood Of the cafe today and the police
have their hands full in keeping back the
curious and answering the questions Of
the inqusitive. The interior of the cafe
resembles a place swept by cyclone and
Is the center of attraction to Parisians to-
day.
The bomb is said to have been in the
form of a sardine box, and to have been
filled with nails, pieces Of horse shoe and
scraps of copper.
When questioned last night in regard to
his crime. Breton said, among other things:
geoisie burst up the better"
After the explosion the police arrested
man who was found trying to conceal
himself about the street lazare railroad
station, and who refused to give his name.
He Is believed to be an anarchist, and may
possibly turn out to be an accomplice of
Breton. The latter was once waiter in
the cafe into which ne threw the bomb,
but he had been discharged.
At cabinet council held today last
nights bomb outrage was discussed, and
attention was also drawn to the manifes-
tations during the last few days at Vail
lants grave. Anarchists, socialists and
others have been marching to the cemetery
where the anarchists remains are inferred,
and have been placing flowers and wreaths
upon the grave.
The cabinet finally decided to forbid all
such manifestations as the carrying Of
seditious emblems to any cemetery.
Newspaper Comment.
All the newspapers comment at length
upon the latest bomb outrage. and demand
that the government adopt the most rig
GUS measures to prevent such occurrences.
The Journal Des Bats. for instance says
that the present laws are evidently not
sufficient to deal with anarchists and the
Estafette says that the time has come to
definitely organize q system Of social de-
tense.
Policeman Poisson, the officer who first
attempted to arrest Breton, and who Is
suffering from four revolver shot wounds
inflicted by the anarchist, has been decorat-
ed with the cross Of the Legion Of Honor
The project of police today took the cross
to the hospital where Poisson is lying in
a critical condition. The other policemen
who assisted in the arrest of the desperate
anarchist will receive a reward for their
bravery sums OF money.