The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1894-03-16
A BOMB IN CHURCH.
Terrible ACT Of a Oowardly French
Anarchist.
THE MIsoREANT HIMSELF KILLED

No Doubt That no Intended to Throw
the Internal Machine Into the Midst
Of tho worshipers. but Not Q Single
One was injured.
PARIS, March 16.--At $50 yesterday
afternoon bomb was exploded Just in
aide 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. It lie
generally believed that IL was the inten-
ton Of the miscreant to throw tho 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 1t was
seen that the remains were those of a man
who was SO shattered by the explosion
that his iutestines and brains lay in all d.
rections, while his blood was spattered
over large area. Upon the body Of the
man were found number of papers and
portrait Of Ravachol, the executed an
archist.
The internal machine had apparently
exploded prematurely while in possession
Of the anarchist, and therefore had done
but very little damage TO the edifice.
The door by which the bomb thrower
entered the church was the probable cause
of his death. This door opeus 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 nos 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 o morgue. After it arrived
there DR.. Alphonse Bertillon made AN an
thropometrieal measurement of the body,
and found that 1t comedies with the an-
Rrchist Pauwells, who WIS an intimate
friend of the anarchists Bastard aud Paul
Reclus.
A number of rivets, similar TO those
used by skin dressers, was found on the
body, and Pauwells was skin dresser.
Pauwells was born at Courcell, Belgium,
in 1864.
| When tho corpse was lifted up to be
taken TO the morgue 1t was found that
one Of the hands tightly clenched 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 feeling of decided con
steruation In official circles as it was be-
lieved that the wholesale arrest of anarch-
lists recently made, the untiring efforts OF
the police in visiting residences supposed
to contain anarchists, the documents
| found by the police, and the rcpressive
legislation which followed the explosion
Of paillant's bomb in the cham Der of dep.
mites led everybody 30 believe that the
government had succeeded In crushing
out all the most dangerous seeds Of TN,
Rrchism.
| When the news reached the chamber OF
1 deputies 1t created feeling of consterna-
| ton NJ. Duhost, minister Of Justice, said
that everything pointed to the fact that
the man found dead inside the church was
the person who had the bomb in his pos
session, and who undoubtedly intended to
throw 1t 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-
lings of pauwells' mother, who lives at st.
Denis, and seized large amount of cor
respondenee and anarchistic documents.