New-York tribune., 1894-03-16
KILLED BY HIS OWN BOMB.
NOTHER EXPLOSIONIN PARIS
MARROW ESCAPE OF BIG CONGREGA-
TION IN THE CHURCH OF THE
MADELEINE.

r MISSILE ACCIDENTALLY EXPLODED AS THE
u.v CARRYING IT WAS ENTERING THE EDI-
r1cE-HE WAS NOTORIOUS ANARCHIST
NAMED PAUwELs-sEvERAL PER-
SONS 1NJURED-FoUR MEN AR
RESTED on SUSPICION AND
NEARLY LYNcHED.
paris March 15-At 2:3O o'clock this afternoon
% bon1b was exploded just inside the main door
NJ the Church of the Madeleine. An Anarchist
named Desire Joseph Pauwels. the author Of
the explosion was killed and several other per-
cons were wounded. The explosion. which was
evidently premature. mutilated in a horrible
manner the man who was carrying the bomb
Il &c generally believed that 1t was the inten-
.;or of tho rnjscreant TO throw the bomb into
,be midst of the worshpppers who were gather
,ng for the afternoon service. The Madeleine.
or Church OF 81. Mary Magdalene has large
congregation and is especially well attended our
,np the devotions Of the Lenten season The
,,asner services were about 10 begin and wor-
SINNERS were rapidly filling the ediice when the
oxnlosjon occurred. Many persons were pros
Grated nv the shock. and the detonation followed
nv the crashing of the glass of the windows. the
shrieks Of women and the horrifled shouts or
mon attracted an immense crowd
Tho nolice. who were quickly on the scene.
acted with the greatest coolness. Leaving the
.r,nosed injured persons 10 be cared for by the
MANY volunteers they at once set TO Work 10 dis
cover the authors of the outrage They soon
found mingling with the excited crowd. four
mon whose suspicious actions indicated their con-
rection with the explosion. and pounced upon
,beu When the prisoners We're taken into the
street on their way to the police station. the
crowd which constantly increasing set
I'D a howl Of rage and made rush FOR the sup
nosed dvnamiters. Several times the crowd sue
ceeded in breaking through the Gordon of gem
darmes surrounding the prisoners but they were
beaten back on each occasion. and had 10 con-
tent themselves with curses and denunciauons.
THE prisoners were finally landed in the station
where they were placed in cells
HOW THE EXPLOSION OCCURRED.
The Able Lerebours, who is attached to the
r,hurch of the Madeleine. was standing near the
inner swinging doors when the explosion oc-
curred His version of the affair is this: The
man carrying the bomb had passed through the
main entrance with the stream Of worshippers
who were pouring into the church and was
about TO pass the swinging doors. He had his
hands in his coat pockets one Of the doors re-
leased bv a person passing through rebounded
violently and struck the man on the arm. Ihe
blow upon his arm caused him to jerk MS manu-
from his pocket, and with II came the polIp'
which fell upon the floor Then came the eNPIo-
sion, Which hurled peIsohs H'"'"S AZ ca ~
tions. ., =. oroh,a
When sufficient order was restored to enable
an investigation TO be made. the BODY OF tle man nan
who had carried the bomb was found lying JUST
outside the swinging doors. His clothing hau
been torn into shreds. and there was great hoie
in his abdomen while the walls b ana stond near
were bespattered with blood ana fragments oi
the mans flesh. Upon examination OF the nor! nor!
ribly mutilated body. number OF nails ana DlIs
of iron with which the bomb had been chareeu'
were found mbedded in the flesh and IN the
cavity in the abdomen. -, .o
articles in his pockets Upon the body was found
a pocketbook which contained several chpplhss
from newspapers. together with pno,OeraRp"s %
the Anarchists Ravachol and Naiilant' ". ~
pine Prefect of Police, and NJ Rayha' Miilis'ei
of the Interior.
THE DEAD MAN WAS NOTORIOUS ANARCHIST
The body Of the bomb-thrower was exposed at
the morgue for several hours. after II had pee"
restored as much as possible in order to 1aclh-
tate Identification Early in the evening 'hiee
detectives brought workngman to the morgue'
and the body was identified as that or DESIRE
Insenh Pauwels Belgian. Pauwels was known
10 the police of Brussels and Liege as a preachei
of the propaganda Of the deed lie was an au- u
,,,irer of Ravachol and valiant, and is sald 10
have heen in communication with the Vloleh'
Anarchists who fed to London and switzerland
The identification OF the Douy Was cpihPis'',
II was recognized by man who formerly worked
IN the same shop with Pauwels and the measure
ments were found TO correspond exactly with inc
anthropometric record of Pauwels obtained u!
the police last year ,.--,
pamu,eIs was n tanner and worker in chemicals.
HIS advocacy of the propaganda OF the ieed had ma,
given him a bad reputation among ihe idiIH
police even when he was employed IN pIoNIi-
cial chemical factory. One OF MS 1ilehus Wds
File Reclus brother of Elisee Reclus the geogra-
pher ard father Of Paul kecius' lhe o, 1usI.lNe
Anarchist and associate OF valiant. fau"eis
was expellcd from France owing to the violence
of his speeches and the suspicion that ne was
concerned in dynamite plots and the ponce De-
Neved that he had gone 70 Spain to i've
THE DAMAGE DONE TO THE CHURCH
The havoc created in the church was not as
great as it would have been had the bomb
thrower succeeded in getting further into the
edHce before the bomb exploded. AS 1t was
however the woodwork near the main entrance
was splintered, and heavy window panes OF rare
design IN the front Of the church were shattered
into atoms In the floor. where the man $1,000
when the bomb exploded, is an indentation sew
oral feet in diameter, filled with minute fragments
of the thing The money loss is not large
London March l6-Acting upon advices from
Paris the London police tonight nlade rdlu
on house in Bennett-st.. West, ana aIreSteu
a Frenchman who is to believed to have been
partly responsible for the explosion III t"e
Church Of the Madeleine. Paris, to-day
The police have at midnight three prisoners.
Nauret a newspaper hawker; Roquet. Vale,
them as the most suspicious character. He mas
told several contradictory stories, and IS deiiar'
and ugly AS yet, however, the police nave ho
positive proof that he was Pauwes accoinptcv hae
eyam,ned the fragments of the bomb He says
that he believes it was loaded with chlorauc
powder and not with dynamite