Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1897-08-20


and his wife were present at the
celebration Of mass ia the chapel
attached to the baths. After mass
the Premier was reading and con.
versing with some reporters, when
the assassin approached and fred
three shots at him with a revolver,
hitting him in the forehead, chest
and left ear. The wounded man
fell Co the ground crying, CAS-
sassin! Long live SpaiDw The
Premier was carried to his room,
and expired at 1:3O p. M, after ex-
IRENE unction had been admins
tered him by priest of the DO.
minican Order.
The murderer, who was imme-
diately seized by people in the
vicinity, was severely handled and
must have been killed had it not
been for the protection of the
civil guards. The prisoner, who
declared he had killed the Premier
Gin the accomplishment of just
vengeance" gave the name of
Rinaldi aud claimed that the
deed was the outcome of an extern
sive anarchist conspiracy.
Later, however, the assassin
confessed that his real name was
Michele Angeline Coli, that he
was rs years of age, a native of
Boggi, near Naples, and that he
left Italy and came to Spain in
1896. After reaching Spain, Coli,
according to his confession, re-
sided at Barcelona, and partici-
pated in the doings of the various
anarchist societies of that place
and vicinity.
Sonora Canovas, wife of the
Premier who was but short dis
lance from her husband when the
crime was committed, rushed to
his side upon hearing the shots.
As the Premier lay dying on the
ground she bitterly reproached
the murderer for his crime.
Coli, in reply to the agonizing
words of the distracted wife, said:
II respect you. because you are
an honorable lady, but l have
done my duty, and l am now easy
in mind, for l have avenged my
friends and brothers of Mont
iuich."
Montiuich is the fortress of
Barcelona, outside of which the
anarchists who had been sentenced
to death for recent outrages had
been executed by being shot in
the back. The anarchists recent
ly executed outside Montiuich
we're the last batch of the fiends
who were guilty Of throwing
bomb on June 7, 1896, into re-
ligious procession about to enter
the Church of Santa Maria de
Lamar, upon the occasion of the
Corpus Christi celebration, Twelve
persons were instantly killed and
about fifty others, several of whom
since died from their wounds,
were injured. For this crime
twenty-six anarchists were SEN
fenced to death and many of them
were executed. The condemned
men invariably shouted "Long
live anarchy just before the Or
d'rs to fire were given.
Madrid, August 9.--Goli, the
anarchist who murdered Premier
Canovas del Castillo yesterday at |
the baths of Santa Agueda, today
admitted his guilt, and said that |
be killed Senior Canovas to avenge
the Barcelona anarchists and the |
nsurgent leader, Don Jose Rizll,
who was executed at Manila,
Philippine islands, on December
30 last as the instigator of the
Philippine revolution. DIR. Rial
ienied that he was rebel leader.
'ut he admitted that he had
Ira WIN up the statutes of the Phi
ippine League.
Facts learned today prove that
he assassination was undoubtedly
arefully planned. Coli watched
or an opportunity to kill the
panish statesman, and he only
red when he had no chance of
In fact, the assassin,
Tho was arrested almost immedi.
tely after the Premier fell dead
t the feet of his wife, has de-
Jared as much to the examining
Magistrate.
DISPATCHES from Rome, corrob.
rated by dispatch from Paris,
avs that the real name of Coli