The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-07-21

BY A. Dupin.
Special Correspondence to The Press.
PARIS, July 21.-The small ball of
metal in the shape of a pine cone
picked up in the Rue de Rivoli by
NJ. Chavigny a few minutes after the
attempt against Alphonso XIII and
President Loubet was made, was
really one of the famous bombs sent
to France by the anarchists of Bar
celonia.
How many bombs were sent to
France? That question created agi-.
tation.
Nallina, the chief of the associa-
ton, admitted there were five. 1t is
certain that these objects proceeded
from a foundry-labeled as con-
structing material---for cones are us
ually used as ornaments to be screw
ed on the ends of bars of grille work.
NJ. Chavigny, happening to see this
cone, of which l had the good for
tune of obtaining photograph, little
thought he was in the presence of a
deadly machine. Being a great col
lector of relics, he evidently thought
1t was a piece of grille work torn off
by the explosion that had just hap
pened, and put it carelessly in his
vest pocket.
The police charged and dispersed
the crowd, the guards clearing and
encircling the corner of the Rue de
Rohan.
NJ Chavigny, not caring to be
jostled in the crowd, and of being
found among the first witnesses
taken by the officers, disappeared to-
ward the opera, and went to call on
friend In tavern situated on one of
the boulevards
He told his friend about the ex-
plosion and exhibited the piece of
metal he had picked up and so care
lessly thrust into his pocket.
The head of a bolt covering the
| lower aperture of the pine cone drew
the friends attention, and they start
ed to unscrew this bolt An end OF
waxed thread, holding in place a
glass tube, appeared.
1t was fortunate that one or the
| other of these curious ones did not
light a match to better investigate
| the article Then NJ. Chavigny
| thought that this ball of metal was
not the result of the explosion. ut
| is another of those machines thrown
| by an anarchist, the author of the
attempted assassina ton in the Rue
RIVAL; it is one which failed to eX-
plodc," thought NJ. Chavigny.
I'VE must take it to the commits
| sioner," said his friend, as he realized
| the danger that he and the 400 guests
of the establishment were In.
| With the greatest of precautions
! the head of the screw was replaced
| and 10 minutes later NJ. Chavigny
| placed the pine cone on the desk OF
NJ. Peschard, the police commissioner
| of the Gallon quarters, who immedi-
| ately informed Nj. Grard, director of
the municipal laboratory.
| There was not a moment to spare,
as criminal hands had touched the
bomb: it was liable to explode from
one moment to the other. and 1t is
| miraculous that NJ. Chavigny was
not the first unsuspecting victim.
NJ. Girard unscrewed the bolt, and
by pulling the waxed thread drew
forth two small glass tubes, -four
centimeters long, filled with concen-
trated sulphuric acid
| These tubes were plunged into a
| mass of illuminate of mercury, and
| were maintained certically by two
| small fragments of metal.
| The director of the laboratory had
| everyone vacate the building. Nj. Cir
| ard, having first taken off small
| quantity of illuminate of mercury
| (for all that was necessary was but
| one grain of this dangerous product
| to kill a person, and this machine
| contained 400 grains, had a pail of
| water brought to him. He then pro-
| ceeded, with the greatest of precau-
| ton, to plunge the bomb into the
| water Sheltering himself in the in
| closure of the porte-ocche) that
would shield him in case of an eX-
| pIosion, the noted chemist let the
dangerous bomb slide into the water
rendering il harmless.
| Broken into pieces, by "A hydraulic
| press, in the barracks of BerCy, uu-
der the supervision Of NJ. Girard, as
sisted by Messrs. Morcal dc Brova.s
and Sangle Terrier, the bomb was
again closely examined, and the re-
| suit OF this examination was the SUI