The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-03-16
A BOMB IN CHURCH.
Terrible Act of a Oowardly French
Anarchist.
TEE MIsoDEATT HIMSELF KILLED

No Doubt That He intended to Throw
the Internal Machine Into the Midst
of the worshipers, but Not Single
One Was Injured.
PARIS, March 16.-At 230 yesterday
afternoon bomb was exploded just in
side the main door of the Church of the
Madeleine. One person, supposed to be
the author of the explosion, was killed.
The explosion, which was evidently prema-
ture, mutilated in horrible manner the
man who was carrying the bomb. 1t is
generally believed that it was the inten-
tion of the miscreant to throw the bomb
into the midst of the worshipers, who
were gathering for the afternoon service.
-Four persons have been taken into Gus
tody on suspicion of being accessories of
the man who was killed. The police had
the greatest difficulty in getting their
prisoners to the station, the mob which
had gathered making several attempts to
seize the prisoners and lynch them.
As the smoke cleared away and the peo-
pie regained their presence of mind it was
seen that the remains were those of man
who was so shattered by the explosion
that his intestines and brains lay in all di-
rections, while his blood was spattered
over a large area, Upon the body of the
man were found a number of papers and
portrait of Ravachol, the executed an
archist
J The Internal machine had apparently
exploded prematurely while in possession
of the anarchist, and therefore had done
| but very little damage to the edfce.
The door by which the bomb thrower
entered the church was the probable cause
of his death This door opens and shuts
! with heavy swing, and it is believed
that the bomb thrower, pushing open the
door and having the bomb upon his per-
son, forgot or did not know of the strong
swing of the door, and in closing it struck
him and exploded the bomb,
The corpse of the bomb thrower was at
once removed from the Church of the
Madeleine to a morgue. After it arrived
there DR. Alphonse Bertillon made an an
thropometrical measurement of the body,
and found that it comedies with the an.
archist Pauwells, who was an intimate
friend of the anarchists Bastard and Paul
Reclus.
A number of rivets, similar to those
used by skin dressers, was found on the
body, and Pauwells was a skin dresser.
Pauwells was born at Courcell, Belgium,
in 1864
When the corpse was lifted up to be
taken to the morgue it was found that
one of the hands tightly clenched a re-
volver Both hands were badly injured
though there were no wounds on the face
The news of this latest anarchist out
rage has created a feeling of decided con
sternation in official circles, as it was be
lieved that the wholesale arrest of anarch
lists recently made, the untiring efforts o.
the police in visiting residences supposed
to contain anarchists, the documents
found by the police, and the repressiv,
Legislation which followed the explosion
of Vaillant's bomb in the chamber of dep
uties led everybody to believe that thu
government had succeeded in crushing
out all the most dangerous seeds of an
archism.
When the news reached the chamber o
deputies it created feeling of consterna
ton. NJ Dubost minister of justice, sale
that everything pointed to the fact tina
the man found dead inside the church wa
the person who had the bomb in his pos
session, and who undoubtedly intended Il
throw it into the midst of the large con
gregation which was expected to be pres
ent at the lenten services,
The police last night searched the lodg
ings of Pauwells' mother, who lives at st
Denis, and seized a large amount of cor
lrespondence and anarchistic documents.