The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-02-14
BRETONE'S BOMB.
The Anarchist Who Dynamited q
French Cafe Did 1t to Avenge
Valiant.
Over a Score We're Injured by the
Explosion aul Five by R.
volvcr Shots.
One Policeman Who Aided in His Ar
rest decorated With the Cross of
the Legion of Honor.

PAIuS, Eeb. 14.-Lcon Bretone, the
| anarchist waiter who threw bomb
! into a cafe situated beneath the Hotel
/ Terminus, opposite the st. Lazare rail
! road station. lekaves with the most Gym
| ical etfrontery. When asked if he had
ever appeared in Il police court, the
! prlsoEeE eEtcrlngly remarked:
III Is moi my custom to frequent such
places.
In answer TO further questions Bretone
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 police
| men, who exclaimed
"Iou fired at US when we were the
| persons protecting you from being torn
| to pieces v the people"
To this Bretone replied:
''That proves that people are
wretchcd lot. In any case. whether |
die now or two months later does not
| matter Il straw to me. The prisoner
then resumed coarse, chatting tone.
and seemed to glory in the notoriety
which he had earned by his desperate
| conduct.
| Score Or More Injured,
1t is now estimated that there We're 20
| or more people injured by Bretone's
bomb, and that five people were
wounded by the revolver shots which
| he fired while being pursued by, or
struggling with, the police.
The cafe was filled with people, and a
band WAS playing, when Bretone sud-
| denly arose from one of the tables and
threw IL conlb 1T the electric chandelier,
which it shattered, destroyed marble
top table, overturned others, smashed
the plate glass windows, glassware and
everything within its sphere and wound
ed about 20 people. After throwing the
bomb Bretone ran away. but was chased
| by policemen, who attempted to arrest
him. A struggle followed, Bretone fired
his rev0lve" right and left. Other
pofceIlen We're attracted to the spot,
and the anarchist was arrested and con-
veyed to the nearest police station, the
c1oHd in the meanwhile clamoring for
|
sad TO have been in the form of a
sardine box. and to have been filled
with nails, pieces of hOrseshoes and
scraps of copper.
| He ls AN Anarchist.
When questioned in regard to his
crime, BretOne said among other things
! II am an 'narchist The sooner the
bourgeois burst up the letter"
After the explosion tn" police arrested
a nIan who was found trying to con-
cr"l him sell about the St l. ,zare rail-
roa't station, and who refused to give
his name. He is iIeli"yCd to be an an
ATcnlst. and may possibly turn ont to be
an uccOlnpllce of DrctUn~
The latter was once a waiter in the
cafe into which he threw the bomb, but
| he had been discharged
During the course of his vaporings
after arrest Bretone informed the doc
tor, who was dressing a wound inflicted
upon him by u saber in the hands of one
OF the pol:c men. that his hatred of the
| proprietor OF the cafe was but minor
consideration i'll causing him to throw
the bomb, and that his main object was
to avenge Valiant. Eretone also said
that there were others who would fol-
low his example, and that the object of
his associates Is to destroy the bourgeois
society.
| Police mans Reward.
PARIS, Feb. 14.-Poiiceman Poisson,
the officer who first attempted to arrest
| BretOne the bomb throWer and who ia
suffering from four revolver shot
wounds inflicted ly the an II hist has
been decorated with the cross of the
Legion of Honor. The other policemen
who assisted in the arrest of the dts-
perate anarchist will receive as a reward
for their bravery sums of money.