Omaha daily bee., 1894-01-03
SAFER TO HAVE HIM JAILED
Arrest Of One of the Barcelona Dynamiters
on Yesterday.
aABlD SPANISH ANARCHIST IN CUSTODY
Difficulty of the Police in Trailing Him
Ills Demeanor In Court-Confosses to
the barcelona Outrage-Danded
over to the Doctors.

MADRID, Jan. One of the most Sensa-
tional arrests ever made in connection with
anarchist conspiracy was accomplished yes
terday at Saragossa. The police have for
some time past had the majority Of the rank
and file of the anarchists in custody, but the
most dangerous leaders OF those pests of So
cicty have in several cases succeeded
in GLIDING the police. Among the
anarchists still at large and very
much wanted by the authorities
was a notorious and excessively violent and
dangerous anarchist known as Salvador
French, who has now been captured. This
man, strongly suspected of being concerned
in the Lyceo theater dynamite bomb out
rage, vanished from Barcelona Immediately
ater the crime was committed, and week
after week all efforts to find him proved
fruitless. The police frequently came upon
his trail, but French seemed to be well in
formed as to the movements of his pursuors
and frequently escaped when they were
about TO place hands upon him.. This series
OF almost miraculous escapes made the pc.
lice think that anarchists must have some
means of obtaining information of the move
ments and plans of the authorities.
Desperately Violent.
When taken before the magistrate the
demeanor of the prisoner was desperately
NIOltuJ' II SGIuBBlcu WIJh Ills CiDbOIS duu
continued his anarchist threats and curses
and loudly avowed his completely in the
Lyceo theater outrage, expressing tiendish
regret that more people were not killed and
that he was not able to carry out further
and more bloody outrages. This seemed to
be the prisoners only regret as he cursed
and swore, claiming that the existing state
of society must be destroyed even If the
people had to wade In blood in order TO do so.
After.the prisoners preliminary exam1na-
n Al M "a fIn yNt ~ t.Dt n In ,ryar r1n1A IN
the DOCTORS hands and almost Immediately
reduced to a state of insensibility in order
that efforts might be made to save his life in
the interests of justice. The examination
showed that his wounds were moro danger
Gus than at first supposed, though 1T is
thought that his life will be saved. AS soon
as French is able to be moved he will DO
conveyed under a strong escort to Barcelona,
where his trial will take place upon several
charges, first of which will be completely,
already confessed to, in the LyCeo theater
outrage.
The result of his arrest was q searching
and thorough investigation and several
members of the Barcelona secret police
were arrested, to join the anarchist gangs
awaiting transportation to the penal settle
ments. After this cleansing out of BARGE
lona's secret police force the authorities
found themselves much strengthened and
arrest after arrest of important anarchists
was made, but French still remained at
ASi ~ biiObSh wv DOliIS liOtS ~
to capture him than any other anarch-
list in Spain, for he was known to
be a man capable of carrying out any
terrible plot which might be determined
upon and in every way a leader among
the leaders of the anarchist conspiracy. 1t
known, for instance, that Salvador
French had planned ana almost succeeded
in executing an attempt to blow up a portion
OF the prison at Barcelona where a, majority
of the anarchists of the city were confined.
discovered in Time.
Thu plot was nipped in the bud by the
police, who arrested a number Of conspira-
tors, though French succeeded in making
one of his usual clever escapes. BY dint of
hard work and by keeping, continually,
night and day watch of the anarchist leader,
Salvador French was finally located again
Yesterday in a house situated in a quiet and
highly respectable quarter OF ~Saragossa.
The police then made the most careful
and thorough preparations to capture the
long wanted anarchist. A strong force of
policemen in plain clothes were detailed
tributed so as to gradually surround the
house and in addition, as the hour for max
ing the attempted capture drew near, a
detachment of police in uniform was sent to
the spot and the police net was gradually
closed around the house where the notorious
anarchist had sought refuge. Slowly, but
surely, the net was closed, the police
entered the house unobserved and q number
of the most daring of the officers suddenly
burst in the door of the room occupied by
French, and, revolvers in hand, dashed into
the apartment and called upon the anarchist
to surrender, at the same time covering him
with their pistols.
French, though taken by surprise, was
upon the point of killing the leader of the
police, when he rapidly changed his mind
and turning the pistol toward his own right
side. shot himself beneath the arm. This
however, had been noticed by
the police and they grappled with him in
toprevcnt the anarchist from killing
himself, though the bullet which he fired
into his side, penetrated his chest, but the
lcaden missile came out again three inches
from where il entered.
struggled with tho Police.
A terrible struggle between tho policemen
and the anarchist followed, the officers
being covered with blood by the time they
reduced the desperate man to anything like
subsection. When this was accomplished
the policemen began to search their captive,
him to he too weak from loss of
blood to make any further effort to take his
life. In this, however, they were mistaken,
for French. watching his opportunity, SUD
denly drew n tiny phlal. of poison from Il
secret pocket and before the police could
prevent him he hud placed it to his lips.
This movement was noticed ~ the police
who were searching him ana they succeeded
in knocking the bottle of poison from his