The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-11-29
Wo months for Algeria

why did you go?" asked the pres
ding judge. Was it not to spread an
archist ideas?" (That happened i
1892, when anarchists We're openl
busy)
salson-My one object was to lead
freer life.
Judge-The information given abou
you at Marsellles was favorable in re
gard to morality, but you struck PEG
pie as tacituIn and too deep there
You came out as an anarchist on thu
day the news of President Carnot's as
sassination was published. You danced
for joy.
Salson-I did not. I kept my thought.
to myself.
Judge-Be that as it may, you lef
your place on July H. 1894, to go t.
France, and you stopped at Lyons.
Salson-Because it was on my way.
Judge-You left at the inn there, If
getting out for Paris, a boxful of an
archist pamphlets and papers.
Salson-No pamphlets; only L'Intran
sgeant and La Libre Parole.
Judge-You came to Paris and We're
taken up as a vagabond. In the Jail at
Fontainebleau you told one of your fell
loW-prisoners that your notion was a
revolver for dealing with the police, a
rope for your employers and the gull
lotine for the bourgeois and judges.
| You hoped to equal Caserio.
Salson-That is all untrue.
Judge-You were sent to a discipline
ry establishment in Algiers. There you
| Lol all ~,
preached anarchism, but showed re-
spect for discipline.
Salson-Yes, for was serving
France, not an employer.
Judge-On hearing of the assassina-
ton of the king of Italy you again
| danced for joy in your room. Is that
| true?
| Salson--How could feel sorry at
! the death of an enemy Of anarchists?
| Judge-Your correspondence shows
you to be a thorough anarchist, yet you
would make believe you never Joined an
anarchist society.
Salson-And I never did.
| Maitre Lagasse asked the judge to
read Il list of the books found in Sal
sons room. 1t is remarkable as not
containing a single work of natural
history, mathematics, chemistry or gem
eral history All We're works appeal
ing to the imagination or intended to
arouse a militant spirit against the ex-
listing state of things. They included
Victor Hugo's "Chatiments," Silvio
Pellicos Prison Journal" Joseph Rel
nach's Rapport sur les Cas- des Gina
Detenus DIES Isles du salut," Colonel
Lavroff's propaganda Socialiste'
Krapotkines Morale Anarchists" and
Elisee Reclus' "Anarchie.
The judge next asked Salson to ex-
plain his feelings toward M. Casmir
Perier. Il had an edge up against him
for carrying through the laws of 1898,
but | did not until years after feel a
bitter hatred toward him"
Judge-You went to Pont Seine on
the 10Th of July, and hid whole day
behind hedge watching for him. Did
you not want to assassinate him?
salson-It would be hard to shoot him
with my bad revolver.
Judge-Then why did you go?
Salson-3ecause of a sudden irresist-
ibe impulse
Judge--And now about the Shah.
You went on the LIST of August to study
the approaches to the Palais des Sou
verains. Next day you We're there
some time before the Shah went out.
When his carriage came out motor
car went by The Shah, wanting to see
it, ordered the coaehman to go at a
walking pace. This enabled you to
jump on the step to aim and fire
Salson-T bore the Shah no grudge; l
only hated his royalty. In aiming at
him | only wanted to hit power and |
wealth, and to forward anarchism My |
life has been so wretched ever since |
1891.
Judge-You said you never regretted |
any of your doings.
Salson-Nor did T.
Judge-You deny that you belong to
any organization.
Salson--Yes.
Judge-How, then, was it that the |
Shah received, before your attempt,
letter, dated Naples but posted in Par
Is warning him that he would be fired
at?
Salson-How can I tell?
IeCnnlCdl evidence was lnPn given as |
to the mental heredity of Salson and
the quality of his revolver. His father
and grandfather were alcoholic. SAL
sons mother went out of her mind
when she lost her farm, The prisoner
had a pure brachycephalus head the
Iobes of his ears were Joined to the
cheek, and there was hypertrophy of
the lower maxillary. AS to the revolt
yer, the man who sold it declared it
was good weapon. When Salson
bought it the price was twenty francs,
and one franc for a box of cartridges. |
The detonator must have been filed, for,
instead of hitting straight, it now hits
he side of the cartridge.
Castor Reinette, the gunsmith,
)pined that the weapon was never
worth anything and the cartridges
we're hardly explosive. If one cart
'ldge went off in five, it was the most
hat could be expected. He saw no
race of filing. but an ill-set trigger. 4
The advocate general. Lombard, was
or the utmost severity. He spoke of
Harnot, the Empress of Austria, and
King Humbert as perishing by anar-
hists' knives. Casimir-Perier narrow
y escaped Salson's revolver. Nothing
vas said of Sipido and the Prince of |
Wales but a good deal about the Shah
eing the guest of France when Salson |
made his attempt, and France took |