The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-10
Coli, the Assassin of Premier
Canovas, COnfesses
That His Purpose Was to
Avenge the Barcelona Affair.
He WAS SUSPECTED
Of Being a Participant in the
Bomb Throwing
But Made His Escape From the
Police at the Time.

Madrid, Aug. 1O.-Go1li has confessed
that he killed Senior Canovas to avenge
the Barcelonian anarchists and the in
Surgent leader, Don Jose Rial, who
was executed at Manila, Philippine Is
lands, on December 80 last, as the insti-
gator of the Philippine revolution. DR..
Rial denied that he was rebel lead
err but he admitted that he had drawn
up the statutes of the Philippine league
In COLTS room the police found
large double barreled pistol. 1t appears
that when he left the house he carried
parcel which is believed to have con-
tanned a bomb. The theory is that he
MD this somewhere in the fields.
dispatch from Barcelona says that
Coli arrived there in December 1895
coming from Marseilles He was en-
pIoyed in the printing office of the Re
view Social Science, managed by the
anarchist engineer, Tarrida Neil, for
merly imprisoned in Mont Juich fort
resS at Barcelona.
Coli was implicated in the terrible
crime of the celebration of the Corpus
Christi, although he left Barcelona a
Few days before it occurred.
He was denounced to the police for
completely, but he had already disap-
peared.
1t appears that Coli represented
himself as a correspondent of Ell Pop
The prisoner cannot be tried under
| the laws providing for the trial and
punishment of anarchists, as this law
is so framed that a person prosecuted
under its provisions must have used or
attempted to use explosives in Che COM
| mission or attempt to commit the crime
| charged against him. However there
| is no doubt Coli will be summarily
| tried and sentenced.
The public demands the adoption of
| stringent measures against anarchists
| and also against those who are in SYM
| pathy with them.
| In the course of an interview this
afternoon. Senior Sagasta, the liberal
| leader, said:
1.-The country's politics must not de-
| pend upon an assassin. The cOnServa-
| tiVes ought to remain in power under
| the guidance of men like Marshal Cam
pos, Senior Pidal and Senior Elduayen.
| Nevertheless if the queen regent ap-
peals to the liberals they are ready to
| respond
The funeral of Senior Canoyas will
| Meanwhile the remains will lie here in
| state. The Spanish newspapers, with
| out regard to difference. of political
| opinion, express their horror and indig-
| nation at the crime and their satisfac-
| ton that the assassin is not Spaniard
| There is a great deal of speculation as
| to the effect of the loss of CanOvas up
| on the conservative party. General
| Azcarragahas acquired great popular
| ity and prestige through his skill in or
ganizing the country's resources for
| the Cuban and Philippine campaigns,
and he may be able to keep the party
| together.
| London, Aug. 10.-The assassination
| of the prime minister of Spain has
| caused great excitement and activity
| among the police of all branches of this
| city. All the men absent on leave have
| been recalled, and constant commun1-
| cations are going on between the Brit
| ish police headquarters here, Scotland
| yard and the headquarters of the
| Spanish police at Madrid.
| Foreign comment upon the assassina-
| ton is less occupied with the pol1t1cal
than with the anarchist aspects of the
| case. The press of all countries give
| vent to the strongest denunciation OF
| the crime and advocates stern meas
| l1res against anarchists. Some of the
| French socialist newspapers indulge
| in a rather heartless vein. For instance
La Petite Republique says:
| struck The history of the Canovas
| 1ninistery is written in blood. He re-
vived antique barbarism, so deserved
| his fate''
This, however, Is exceptionally cyni-
| cal. All the respectable journals ex-
| press sympathy.
| La Patre declares that all the plots of
| such murders have been arranged in
| London and suggests that the powers
| should combine to watch the country
| that protects the criminals
Without going far as this. many
| German and other papers advocate
| combined European action to suppress
| anarchiSm.
| The Vienna papers take a pessimis-
| tic view as to the effects of the crime
on Spanish politics
| The italian press heaps execration
| upon the miscreant who has put to