The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-04-29
IA LAUGHS AT DEATH
rb Demon Henri Is Merry
Over His Sentence.
!. DYING IN HIS CRIMES
a.. Ne Didn's Kill More of the Bour-
~.ole-In.oienee Of the Anar.
ehist fn Court

...se aprI 2s.-Emii Henri. the bomb
1870. hiss been convicted and sentenced
S1s.sA. DURING the trial be replied TO
- ss6xe's questions eoolly and impu-
.nx He admitted that he tried TO
- hat Only III order TO resume the
8-.sf.esure Of bombs the next day. Con-
-. 10 said: al aimed AZ the mob at
- s.ssrr Of the cafe, where the orchestra
-. .Ixyisr, bat threw the bomb too
60 Judge Potter here remarked:
#srossvsr. you killed one person and
..suaSed twenty others" The prisoner in
s-,sued. crying, No, injured only seven
- In any case" the judge con-
<.sed. ayou intended to kill twenty"
~.rt.iaiy." replied Henri, with ossen.a-
|.s.. aCer.ainly did" s'You took great
80. IA making the bomb" vas the nex.
sssr..rk Of the Judge. valiant declared
~ If he meant to kill he would have pu.
irlIsss ard no. nails in his bomb. You
- 10 bullets In yours" Precisely"
- tie calm reply: II wanted to kill and
a wound" ''rhe jury will form Its own
1eson on this subject. They have seen
= vain. ingIorious cynicism with which
- syowed your intentions. The pris-
- here inierposed, exclaiming hotly:
81 i not eynicism. It is conviction. Il
| sinit that wanted to kill some of those
E1syxsoises, and tried TO kill my pur-
fnws" "And you desired to destroy q
En3dingp asked the judge. In reply 10
- question he replied contemptuousiy
Il id no. care snap for building. l
nuek u the bourgeoises." you mean
- deliberately tried TO kill innocent per-
apsf" "So,' exclaimed Henri, mo
Efnrsoise - innocent.
The prisoner, refusing later to relate his
[nonsction with the anarchist chief Ortiz,
as Judge warned him against maintain
~ silence. which caused Henri to ex-
dam eontemptuously: "Pooh. pooh,
- eertan Of being condemned to death.
|sbslher maintain silence or whether /
bno,"
The Judge then resumed: '.You are
,ams because you do not wish to admit
~ your hand 10 stained with blood. You
NJ money from thief"
/ This caused the prisoner to retort inso-
|intiy: III my hands are stained with
Nod red as your robe am proud Of what
jhase done"
A waiter OF the cafe. who was wounded
b the leg. testified to seeing Henri throw
iAs bomb. The other witnesses included
s9sliceman Poisson. who was seriously in
hrd by the bullets fred at him by the
1iscner. When other wounded witnesses
sppeared Henri turned his back upon the
ssdgs and affected to utterly disregard the
SEocsedings.
Thereupon Judge Potter reproached the
)essoner with his callousness in the face
b bis victims. many of whom were poor
working people.
ssntsd to strike at the bourgeoises, and
= satisfied that did so. As to my COOL
IN. II any body 10 passive 1t is you"
y. Dupay, who was q witness. testified
hat Henri, while in his employ, absented
1tnself tor An hour and half on the day
4 the explosion, but the witness did not
live the prisoner could have deposited
De Internal machine ia the office of the
Crmaux Mining Company. on the Avenue
sf0pera. Henri interrupted NJ. Dupuy,
frying: II affirm thar | carried IL there
nyself, NJ. Gaupit. a witness for the de-
Vase, expressed the opinion that Henri
vas mentally affected. This called forth
q excited protest from the prisoner,
sho asserted that be was perfectly sane.
A. TO the Terminus affair he said IL was
o revenge wholesale arrests of anarchists.
Ne wished the bourgeois to understand
Us, starving men had no respect for
human life. and had no mercy in tho war
eesinst the bourgeois.
Henri's address ended with tho words:
You have killed anarchists, but what
fsa can't kill is anarchy. which will end
b. killing the bourgeois. NJ. Boutel.
tuansel for the prisoner. made an eloquent
spesch in Henri's behalf.
The jury brought IN a verdict of guilty.
nd Henri was shortly afterward SEN
sneed 10 death. The prisoner received
be sentence laughing and shouting:
Courage. comrades; vive l'anarchy." lie
ss removed under q strong escort of Re-
Tabliean guards.
LospoN. April 3s.--The confession of
lFaaeis folti. the Italian anarchist, which
~ 10 the arrest of Faranana. the "No. |"
q the anarchists of London. has trus-
ssied TIA. murderous designs of the
anarchists against the detectives of this
ts'y. who have been working up the cases
sssinst anarchist leaders. Six of them are
taosn TO have lied Ia the continent and
sso others booked passage from Liverpool.