The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-01-10
Auguste Valiant Arraigned
in the Assize Court,
Paris, Today.
MEANT TO KILL DEPUTIES.
Santiago Salvador Farther Ex-
amined at Barcelona-Shield.
ing His Accomplices.
By Gable to the United Press.

and jury in the Assize Court today. Police
men, in couples and threes, were stationed |
every ten yards around the immense block |
occupied by the Palace of Justice, in which |
the court sits Every door of the Palace |
was shut, and guarded by sentinels with
fixed bayonets. Nobody was admitted un-
less they had special card of identity.
At twenty minutes to twelve o'clock an
usher announced ''The Court; all rise"
The crowd in the court room, who had
been lucky enough to get seats, stood up as
the Judge entered. Grave and serious look
ing, the five Judges, attired in their red
robes and black, gold braided caps, walked
slowly so the bench. The procession was |
headed by President Gaze AS soon as the |
Court was seated M. Bertrand, standing be-
fore the right of the bench, asked the Court |
to appoint an additional juryman to re-
place NJ Jugie, who was i'll and unable to |
be present A doctors certificate to the eff |
feet was presented, and the Court excused
Mr.. Jugie.
THE PRISONER sELF-PesSEssED.
The usher verified the presence of the jury
men. Those present in the court room
watched the least movement made by any OF
the principals in the case with feverish in
terest. The cynosure of all eyes was the
prisoner, who stood in the dock with an
officer on each side of him. He was, like
Ravachol entirely self-possessed, and gazed
about the court room as though he gloried In
the interest he was creating. Several times
he seemed to be seeking the eyes eff some
body, specially scrutinizing the people who
were standing at the back of the court room.
Exactly at twelve o'clock Presiding Judge
Gaze began to question Valiant as to his
name, age, profession and residence. The
prisoner gave his age as thirty-two years.
To fho
readily.
After this formality had been complied
with, Judge Gaze read the names of the jury
men NJ Rothschild's name was not on the
list, despite the assertions made that he was
to be one of the jurors.
THE ACCUSATION.
Registrar Hovoch then read the Acte
d'Accusation, which charged Valiant with
premeditated attempt at assassination, coup
led with an endeayor to destroy the Cham
ber of Deputies. The Acte dAccusation
furthermore recited the details of the event
and the evidence given before the examining
magistrate.
Judge Gaze reviewed the details of the
manufacture of the bomb, Vaillant's visit to
the Chamber, and his throwing of the bomb.
He said that the people who had been hurt
the most were not the members of the
Chamber Of Deputies, but spectators of the
proceedings
'sThat was not my fault" retorted Vail
lant. ssThe Deputies are in the highest de-
gree responsible for the social misery pre-
vailing 1t was them I meant should feel
their responsibility"
When questioned as to his attempt to
escape during the confusion following the
explosion, Valiant denied the story that a
sentinel stopped him at the door by threat
ening to pierce him with his bayonet if he
advanced a step. The prisoner declared en-
ergetically that he didn't wish to flee, and
even if he had it would have been utterly
impossible for him to have done SO because
he was wounded in the leg
MERELY STOLE THE WIFE.
When the Judge came to the recital of the
relations that had existed between Valiant
and Madame Marchand, the prisoner denied
that he had taken furniture or money be-
longing to the womans husband Madame
Marchand had left her husband because the
latter i'll treated her. She was without
money and when she went to live with him
(Vaillantl she brought nothing belonging to
Marchand.
Valiant was emphatic in his denial of the
statement that he had taken Marchand's
property as well as his wife, evidently con-
sidering the former charge to be dishonor-
able one He said he desired to clear him
self of this reproach. When asked how he
obtained money he replied
'sAs 1 declared before the examining
magistrate repeat now. A burglar gave
me hundred francs
The judge stigrnatized Vaillant's subter-
fuge to obtain entrance to the Chamber of
Deputies as fraud. Valiant asserted that
it was.
Judge Gaze here read extracts from the
prisoners declarations to the effect that he
had become convinced by studying philo-
Sophical works, including those of Herbert
Spencer that anarchism was the logical out
come of the oppression of the poor by modern
society.
In regard to the outrage, the prisoner ex
planned that he had chosen the Chamber OF
Deputies as the place to throw the bomb, in
order not to hurt innocent persons. Unfor-
tunately he did not succeed.
He regretted that he had hurt irresponsi-
BILE persons.
Describing the manufacture of the bomb,
Valiant declared that owing to the dimen-
sions of his apparatus he had the alternative
of putting in a number of small projectiles
which would wound many persons slightly,
or a smaller number that would do more eff
fective work He chose the former plan SO
that the projectiles would kill few people out
right.
At this point the court took recess for
luncheon.
AFTER RECESS.
When the proceedings were resumed,
Vaillantas gaze was again fixed on the peo-
pie gathered in the back of the hall. Occa
sionally he threw glances over the army of
newspaper men who occupied the body of
the courtroom. When not thus engaged he
would lean over and talk with his lawyer
The prisoners appearance created a some
what favorable impression. He wore a dark
blue overcoat, with an astrakhan collar. His
complexion was sallow. The ends of his
brown moustache were twisted. His beard
was pointed, and his whiskers cut short. He
is slightly bald
Judge Gaze continued his questioning,
asking the prisoner to tell of his past life.
Valiant admitted that he had been con-
demned five times for petty thefts, but, he
added, mendacity and theft were the neces-
sary results of the present social conditions
of the poor.
Recurring to the manufacture of bombs,
Valiant said he decided to put nails into
the missile, believing that it was more inn
portant to accomplish his purpose to
wound many persons than to kill few.
Therefore he used nails and not bullets.
WANTED TO WOUND.
Judge Caze:-"Then you put nails into
the bomb in order to wound and not killg'
Vaillant-ssYes; put nails in because |
was able to get most of them into my small
engine When was hunting in America
noticed that nails would make a graver
wound and kill less often than bullets. The
bomb burst almost directly it was out of my
hands,
Judge Gaze Were you not afraid that
Won would Be hurtg'
Valiant The bomb was quite as Likely