The Forrest City times., 1894-02-16
ANARCHISTS IN PARIS

Another Job tn Prospect TOT Ms De FSffo
 and His Guillotine-Twenty Persons
 Wounded in the Cafe of the Hotel Ter
 minus, and the Place Wrecked by the
 Explosion of Bomb Hurled by Edon
 Breton, an Anarchist from Marseiiles-
 The MIscreant Captured.
 PARIS, Feb. 13.-Edon Breton. g years old, threw a bomb in the cafe of the Hotel Terminus, at the St Lazare railway station, yesterday evening. The bomb exploded in the middle of the room. and wounded twenty per sons.
 the cafe, which is on the ground floor of the hotel, at 8 o'clock
 Shortly before o'clock pale, thin young man with light, pointed beard, full of drink which he had taken at a table in the middle of the room, started to leave. When near the door he sud- denly turned. drew a bomb from his coat and threw it toward group of persons who had sat next to him.
 The bomb struck an electric light fixture, then fell on a marble table and exploded. The great hotel and station were wrecked by the shock.
 
 blown to atoms The ceiling and floor were rent and walls were cracked. A dense. offensive smoke filled tn. cafe for few minutes. and in the ob- scurity the bomb-thrower escaped.
 When the smoke cleared away five persons were found severely wounded and fifteen had slight injuries The bomb had been filled with bullets and rough bits of iron, which had riddled the furniture and walls and inflicted most of the wounds
 After leaving the cafe the bomb thrower started down the street on a run.
 Three policemen had just passed in an omnibus when the explosion oc- cured. They were going on duty and jumped to the street the moment they saw the fugitive. The young man turned on them as they called to him to stop. and fired five shots Police man Poisson fell. badly wounded in the side. Policeman Lenocran Bigot, however, continued the pursuit. and. with the help of Policeman Barbes and a waiter named Tissier. overpow-
  They took him to the police station in the Rue de Moscou. where. after some hesitation. he gave his name and ad- dress The prefect of police, M. Taur- ent. the chief secretary of M- Dubost. minister of the interior, and several other high officials, were summoned to the station. and the examination of the prisoner was begun. Police Com missary Gavrel taking the evide nee.
 At the scene of the explosion the smoke and the cries had attracted a great crowd to the Hotel Terminus. Doctors Serino, Bouffe and Thysun of- fered their services They obtained bandages and drugs from a nearby apothecary and dressed the wounds of the injured, some of whom had been carried to rooms in the hotel. others to the drug stores in the neighborhood.
 The United Press correspondent was admitted to the Rue de Moscou police office shortly after the arrest. Breton sat handcuffed between two police men. He showed the effects of his hasty flight and tussle with the police. Otherwise he looked calm and com
 
 coat had revealed collarless flannel shirt and the general garb of a work ingman. In his pockets the police had found pair of brass knuckles, dag ger. Swiss knife, six-chamber re- volver. a gold half louis, two francs, and a small silver locket containing a lock of brown hair tied with ribbon. At first he refused to talk. telling the police that it was their business to find out who he was. After giving his name and age he again became si- lent Eventually he added that he was a cabinetmaker. and had arrived in Paris from Marseilles yesterday morn ing. "Yes. l am an anarchist" the ex- claimed, in response to reiterated ques- rsouss and the more of the bourgeoisie ] killed the better 1t would please me-" AGarchisI Boisson. Convicted. Huria .
 Missils st the Judge.
 PARIS, Feb 13.-Anarchist Bois- Son, one of the many arrested during ths recent police raids on anarchist haants, was placed on trial yesterday and convicted of having explosives in his possession. The judge sentenced him to four months imprisonment Boisson stood in . defiant attitude while sentence was being pronounced upon hi,n- As the judge concluded.