The Dickinson press., 1897-08-14

vas arrested almost Immediately after
the premier fell at the feet Of his wife,
has declared as much to the examining
magistrate. The prime minister lin
gered for some time in agony and
passed away with o cry of ''Long Live
Spain"
Further details of the assassination
show that Senor Canovas del Castillo
and his wife were present at the cele-
bration Of mass at the chapel attached
to the baths. After mass the premier
was reading and conversing with some
reporters when the assassin approached
aud fired three shots at him with a re.
volver, hitting him in the forehead,
chest and left ear.
The premier was carried to his room
and expired at 1880 p. M, after extreme
JUNCTION had been administered him by
| . priest of the Dominican order.
Assassin Immediately Seized.
The murderer, who was Immediately
seized by people who were in the
vicinity of the scene of the crime, was
severely handled and might have been
killed had it not been for the protection
afforded him by q number Of civil
guards, who soon ran to the scene of
the assassination. The prisoner de.
clared that he had killed the premier
'.in the accomplishment Of just
vengeance" He at first gave the name
of Rinaldi and claimed that the deed
was the outcome of an extensive an.
archist conspiracy. Later, however,
the assassin confessed that his real
name was Michele Angine Coli, that
he was. 28 years of age and a native of
Boggia, near Naples, and that he left
Italy and came to Spain in 1896. After
reaching Spain, Coli, according to his
confession, resided at Barcelona and
participated in the doings Of the various
anarchist societies of that place and
vicinity. After sojourning at BARGE.
Iona for some time, Coli visited France
and Belgium, and returned to Spain in
July last. After his return the an.
archist seemed to have completed the
plans for the assassination of the prime
minister. He left Madrid for Santa
Agueda at the same time as Senior
Canovas del Castillo and awaited an op-
portunity to assassinate the statesman.
In appearance, Coli is of medium
height, wears full beard and specta-
cles, and his demeanor is that of quiet,
law abiding citizen. He says he is sat-
isfed with having done "his duty, !" and
asserts that he had no personal grudge
against the premier, and was merely
obeying orders received from his supe-
riors in the secret society to which he
belonged.
Sonora Canovas, wife Of the premier,
who was but short distance away
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 re.
preached the murderer for his crime.
Coli, in reply to the agonlzing words
Of the distracted wife, said:
Avenged His Brethren Of Montjuich.
II respect you because you are an
honorable lady, but have done my
duty, and I am now easy in mind, for I
have avenged my friends and brothers
Of Montjuich."
Montjuich is the fortress of BARGE
Iona, outside Of which the anarchists,
who have been sentenced to death for
recent outrages, have been executed by
being shot in the back. The anarchists
recently executed outside Montjuich
were the last batch of the fiends who
were guilty of throwing a bomb on
June z, 1896, into religious procession
about to enter the church of Santa Maria
de Ia Mar, upon the occasion Of the Cor
pus Christi celebration. Twelve per-
sons were instantly killed, and about 50
others, several of whom since died from
their wounds, were injured. For this
crime, 26 anarchists were sentenced to
death and many Of them were executed.