The Saint Paul globe., 1900-12-16
CRIMINAL COURT N PARIS
HOW JUSTICE IS ADMINISTERED
BY THE BAR OF
FRANCE
TRIAL OF ANARCHIST sALsoN
A Running Conversation Between
the Judge and Prisoner in Which
the Bench Draws His own
Conclusions.
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Line trial of Salson yesterday for at
tempting to assassinate the shah Of
Tered no unexpected features. He ad-
mltted, from the first, premeditation
and was taken in the act. But the
prosecution tried to exclude the extenu-
atlng circumstances put forward by the
defense. Interest, therefore, lay in
the interrogating, and the fight Salson's
counsel was prepared to make
Salson is dark and squat, but lean. He
has strong features, hollow cheeks, and
projecting cheek bones. The eyes are
small dark, and harsh, but not wanting
in intelligence His fana ticism-for he
Is fanatic-is not of the dreamy but Of
the active sort. He comes from st.
Antique in the Aveyron, and is the son
of respectable peasant freeholders, Who.
however, through bad years and bad in
VeStments, lost their homestead and the
land around it. His father died before
mortgage was foreclosed, which re-
duced his mother to want
Salson first went to the communal
School, but he was chiefly educated by
the Christian Brothers, and left them
after passing all the primary standards
He then obtained a post of office men
at the register of mortgages at St.
Afrlque, and gave satisfaction, but his
employer was astOnished to notice how
as mere youth Salson pored over "I
revolution Sociale'' of Prudhon. which
lay on the Office table Salson left him
10 go with an attorneys clerk to Mont
pelller why he went there he refuses
to say. At Montpelier he was employ
ed as officeman by a wine merchant. but
left at the end of two months for AL
geria.
Why did you go?" asked the presiding
judge: Was it not to spread anarchist
1deas? CThat happened in 1892, when an
arch1sts were openly busy)
Salson-My one object was to lead a
freer life
Judge-The information given about
you at Marseilles was favorable in re-
gard to morality, but you struck people
as taclturn and too deep there You
came, out as an anarchist on the day
the news of President Carnot's assas-
sination was published. You danced for
joy.
salson-I did not kept my thoughts
to myself
Judge-Be that as It may, you left
your place on July II, 1884 to so to
| France, and you stopped at Lyons
Salson-Because it was on my way.
| Judge-You left at the nm there, in get
ting out for Paris, a boxful of anarchist
| pamphlets and papers
| Salson-No pamphlets; only 14Intra nsi-
geant and La Libre Parole.
Judge-You came to Paris and were
| taken up as a vagAn0nd. in the ial]
| at Fontainebleau you told one IF Your
| felloW-prisoners that your notion was a
! revolver for dealing with the police a
rope for your employers, and the gull
Iobne for the bourgeois and judges You
| hoped to equal Caserio.
Salson-That Is all untrue
Judge-You were sent to a disciplinary
establishment in Algiers. There you
behaved we'll. In the army you never
preached anarchism, but showed respect
for discipline.
salson-Yes, for was serving France,
not an employer
Judge-On hearing of the ssassination
of the king Of Italy you again danced
for JOY in .our room. Is that true?
Salson-How could 1 feel sorry at the
death of an enemy of anarchists?
Judge-Your correspondence shows you
. to be thorough anarchist, yet you would
make believe you never joined an anar-
chist society.
Salson-And I never did
Maitre Lagasse asked the judge to
read a list of the books found in Sal
sons room. 1t is remarkable as to not
containing a single work of natural his
tory, mathematics, chemistry or general
history. All were works appealing to
the imagination or intended to arouse
a militant spirit against the existing
state of things. They included Victor
Hugo's ''Chatiments,' Silvio PelIfcos
prison Journal" Joseph Reinachs 8
Rapport sur les Cas- des Cinq Detenus
des Isles du Salut," Col Lavroff's PRO
pagande Socialiste,'' Krapotkine's Mo
rale Anarchiste'' and Elisee Reclus'
"Anarchie''
The judge next asked Salson to ex-
plain feelings toward M Casimir-Pe-