The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1894-02-15
BREToNE's BOMB.
2As Anarchist Who Dynamited q
French Cafe Did It to Ayenge
Valiant. f
Over Q Score Were Injured by the
Explosion and Five by Re-.
volvar Shots.
One Policeman Who Aided in His Ar
rest Decorated With the Cross of
the Legion of Honor. p. =.

PARIS, Feb. 14.-Leon Bretone, the
anarchist waiter who threw bomb
into o cafe situated beneath the Hotel
Terminus, opposite the St. Lazare rail
read station, behaves with the most Gym
teal s6rontery. When asked if he had
eyes appeared In police court, the
prissnssl snssringiy remarked:
'.Iti 3 net my. custom to frequent such
Nlac0a -
IN answer to further questions Bretone
said that he had fred his revolver at the
Yolics 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: -----.-, .' ~--
"You fred at Us when we were the
persons protecting you from being torn
10 pieces BY the people"
70 this Bretone replied:
THAT proves that people are a
wHstched lot. In any case, whether 1
de now or two months later does not
matter q straw to me-" The prisoner
Shsn resumed a coarse, chatting tone,
and seemed to glory in the netoriety
which he had earned by his desperate
conduct.
A Score or More Injured.
Il IL now estimated that there were 20
Or more people injured by Bretone's
bomb, and that five people were
wounded by the revolver shots which
he fred while being pursued by, or
struggling with, the police.
The cafe was filed with people, and a
band was playing, when Bretoae sud-
denly arose from one of the tables and
threw q bomb at the electric chandelier,
which It shattered, destroyed a marble
top table, overturned others, smashed
the plate glass windows, glassware and
everything within it's sphere and wound
cd about 20 people. After throwing the
bomb Bretone ran away, but was chased
b policemen, who attempted to arfest
him. 4 struggle followed, Bretone fired
his revolver right and left. Other
policemen were attracted to the spot,
and the anarchist was arrested and con-
yeyed to the nearest police station, the
crowd 10 the meanwhile clamoring for
his death by lynching. The bomb is
said to have been in the form of a
sArdins box, and to have been filled
With nails, pieces of horseshoes and
scraps Of copper.
He IL an Anarchist.
When questioned in regard to his
crime, Dretone said among other things:
II am an anarchist. The sooner the
bourgeois burst up the better"
After the explosion the police arrested
Q man who was found trying to con-
ceal himself about the st. LAzare rail-
road station, and who refused to give
his naIne. He is believed to be an an
archist, and may possibly turn out to be
an accomplics of Bretone.
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 wound inflicted
upon him by . saber in the hands of one
!os the policemen, that his hatred of the
proprietor Of the cafe was but a minor
consideration in causing him to throw
the bomb, and that his main object was
% aysngs Valiant. Bretone 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.
POlioeman's Reward.
PARIS, Feb. 14.-Policeman Poisson,
the officer who first attempted to arrest
Bretons, the bomb thrower, and who is
suffering from four revolver shot
wounds inflicted by the anarchist, has
been decorated with the cross of the
Legion Of Honor. The other policemen
who assisted in the arrest of the des-
psrats anarchist will receive as a reward
1ar their bravery sums of money