Omaha daily bee., 1894-02-13
valiant Finds an Imitator in the Person Of
Leon Breton.
PARIS SHOCKED BY ANOTHER EXPLOSION
Customers Of a Crowded Cafe Mangled by
the Deadly Missile,
DYNAMITE USED WITH AWFUL EFFECT
Innocent People Made the Victims of Mans
Malignant Spite.
PROMPT ARREST OF THE BOMB THHowER
Ills Desperate Efforts to Escape-policcmcu
ana citizens Wounded In Ills Capture
Twcnty-Three People Injured
Antecedcnts OF the Monster.

PARIS, Feb, ia young man acting
from motives of revenge exploded a bomb al
y o CLOCK In a cafe beneath the Terminus
MOTEL which is situated opposite the st.
Lazare station. The place was full of people
and the widest excitement prevailed. Tha
people became paraly2ed with terror and for
a moment no one dared to move. fearing n
repetition of the explosion, but as none came
their courage returned. Then they investi-
gated into the damage done and they found
the explosion had done dreadful work.
The cafe was filed with smoke and lying
on the floor were a number of persons
wounded and bleeding. The bomb had
landed on a table around which a party had
been sitting and this table had been reduced
to spiinters. The persons grouped at this
table suffered the most.
The injured, fifteen in number. are nearly
all wounded in the legs. Some of them
were badly hurt and they were removed
TO a chemist shop near by where
they were cared for. Meantime tho
miscreant had not been allowed to
escape. AS soon as he had thrown the bomb
he ran from the place and darted away.
me alarm was given by persons outside who
had heard the noise of the explosion and
chase was at once given to the fleeing fig
ure. A number of police Joined in the chase.
The fugitive drew q revolver when he saw
his pursuers were getting too close and
turned and fired several shots, killing a
workman and wounding a number of other
people. One of the men struck was a police
man and his wound is considered fatal.
The man was captured when $50 yards
from the cafe. He proved to be Leon Bre-
ton, a man of 80 years, who had been Ell.
ployed in the cafe as a waiter, but had been
discharged for misconduct.
Directly after the explosion the cafe was
cleared, the iron shutters lowered and the
place was closed. Intense excitement ex-
listed in the vicinity and an Immense crowd
gathered to discuss the outrage. The news
of the explosion also caused great excitement
through the city. The minister of the inter-
ir visited the scene as soon as he was noti-
fed Of the occurrence. /.
DELIBERATELY PLANNED.
All the persons injured are Parisians.
Breton had been sitting outside the cafe
and had partakcn of refreshments. No par
ticular notice was taken of him, as his ac-
lions were not such as to attract attention.
As he was leaving the place he threw the
bomb, aiming at the electric light chan
delier.
The explosion shattered the plate glass
front of the place. destroyed a marble top
table, overturned others and smashed glass
ware and plates, fragments flying in all
directions.
On leaving the cafe he rushed towards the
Rue de Rome. An omnibus, which runs be-
tween the railway station and the Place st.
Michael, was passing the cafe as Breton
ran out. A policeman was sitting on the
top of the omnibus and saw Breton. He
jumped to the ground and followed him and
run him to earth a few yards up the Rue
de Rome, at q spot opposite the Scossa res
taurant. Breton turned on the policeman,
revolver in hand, and fired a shot at him.
The policeman grabbed him and both fell.
While on the ground, Breton fired another
shot at the Policeman and struck a woman.
who was passing by, who fell MORALLY
wounded.
In the meantime a crowd had collected.
attracted by the shots. The policeman who
had grabbed Breton had been badly wounded
by Breton's first shot and was unable TO
hold on to his prisoner, and the latter, still
brandishing his revolver, regained his feet
and was likely to do further mischief. The
people, a large part of whom had followed
Breton from the cafe, were furious and
seemed inclined to lay violent hands upon
him. They believed at the time that the ex-
plosion was the work of a militant anarchist
and they clamored for his lynching. The
sight OF the revolver restrained them at
first, but finally, headed by another police
man, they rushed forward to secure him.
HIS STRUGGLE TO ESCAPE.
Breton again attempted to use his re-
Volver, but the policeman cut over the face
with his sabre, staggering him, He Was
then arrested.
The mob demanded that he be lynched
and they would have done so had not a
strong escort Of police arrived. He was
then escorted to the office of the commissary
of police on the Rue de Moscow.
Five persons who were passing the cafe
at the time Of the explosion were injured
by flying fragments of glass.
The inquiry before the commissary hero
showed that the bomb was constructed in
the form OF a sardine box and contained a
chlorate powder and pieces OF lead OF the
size OF cherries, Breton admitted to the
police that he was an anarchist.
Minister Reynal the project Of police and
a number of detectives remained inside tho
cafe when it was closed in order to prepare
their report, Squads of police are on duty
in the vicinity.
The bullet received by the policeman from
Breton's revolver has been extracted and IL
is hoped he Will recover. Breton told tho
doctor who dressed the wound from tho
policeman's sabre that his main object was
TO ayenge valiant. His hatred toward tho
proprietor of the cafe was not the only
reason. lie said there were others who
will follow his example, the object Of his
associates being TO destroy the Burgeoiso
society. Breton speaks English and French.
He declines TO reveal his identity, but is
possible Of the Island Of Jersey where the
name Breton is common.
Breton later was subjected ia an examine
ton by the minister of the interior. minister
Of justice, Chief OF Detectives Goron ana
others. He denied that he was the author
Of the crime. adding insolently: Tn an
anarchist. The sooner the bourgeoise burst
up the better, But I know nothing,
did not enter the cafe. You can suppose
that | arrived here from Pekln or Marsellies
as you please"
HIS IDENTITY.
Notwithstanding this declaration. Breton
was fully identified by a woman who was
injured by the explosion, who said that IL
seemed TO her there were two others with
him.
The prisoner has a hangdog look. The
evidence given by various people showed that
several persons who had received wounds had
slipped away without making complaint To
the police.