New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-21
AN ANARCHIST NOBLEMAN.
Trial of ". Moldto Looked For7card
TO gIth Interest in Paris.
Paris Santannhnr Il

A sensational stage has been reached in the
investigation which the French police have been
conducting with respect to the anarchist plot
to murder King Alfonso of Spain and Presi-
dent Loubet Charles Malato, the we'll known
anarchist phiIosophic writer, has been commit
ted for trial together with two other alleged &C
completes of lesser note OH the charge of hav-
ing received explosive bombs and of having
aided and abetted the attempt to assassinate
the Spanish monarch and NJ. Loubet his host.
The actual culprit who threw the bomb. which
fortunately killed only cavalryman's horse
and damaged the presidential carriage. has dis
appeared. and the French police have no clew
as 20 either his whereabouts his identity.
Indeed. the theory maintained in the anarchist
and revolutionary clubs here is that the entire
plot was worked up by that special department
of the Spanish and French police whose bust
ness it is to watch the movements of anarchist
leaders
Several writer's and politicians of distinction
and influence are convinced that Charles Malato
is innocent Of the charge brought against him
and have not hesitated to say So Among these
are the Ahbe Charbonne the brilliant socialist
polemist. whose remuneration of the soutane was
an ecclesiastical nine days wonder a couple of
years ago; Jean Jaures until recently Vice Presi-
dent of the Chamber of Deputies. under whose
editorshtp NJ. Malato was constant contribu-
tor to the CoIlectivist organ. "IIHumanite'';
G6rault Richard Paris Deputy: Senator Georges
Clemenceau and others equally distinguished
and prominent. The fact is that Charles Maato
Notwithstanding his extreme and uncompronlis-
ing views. is popular with and even beloved by.
all who know him. He has the reputation Of
being the most extravagantly polite man in all
Paris. His charity is unbounded and although
he does not enjoy by any means large fortune
he eiy- he " of
and lives in extreme simplicity, not to say pow
erty. Although he has renowned his title, he
belongs to one of the oldest and most aristo-
cratic Neapolitan families. and has a right to
call himself Count Charles d San Malato dt
Corne. He is the grandson of the last COM
mander in chief and field marshal of the now
extinct Neapolitan kingdom, and his ancestor
distinguished himself by the ruthlessness with
which he suppressed a popular insurrection,
thus earning for his sovereign the nickname of
King Bomba' and the bitter denunciation of
the late Mr. Gladstone.
The family seems to have had an explosive
strain in its blood. for the field marsnars son,
the present Marquis di San Malato, Charles
Malato's father. throwing off all allegiance TO
King Bomba, came to Paris, where he figured
prominently in the Commune, and for his share
in that insurrectionary movement was SEN
fenced to Punishment for life in the French
penal settlement of New-Caledonia. 1t was here
that Charles Malato born. After brief
spell as an official of the settlement he returned
to Paris with his father, who had benefited by
amnesty, and quickly assumed leading part
among French anarchists. 1t then that to-
gether with Ernest Gegout who had married
near relative of President Grevy he SEN
fenced for anarchist propaganda to the old and
now vanished political prison, Saint-Pelagie
Their experiences were published in a highly
humorous work, entitled Prisons Ffn-de-Siecle.'
which was illustrated by Steinlen and other
brilliant ecarfca turists Of the once famous Chat
Noir. Gegout has now abandoned his anarchist
vocation and is assisting a wealthy aunt to
restore A feudal castle on the banks of the
Loire. MaIato, however, stood firmly to his
anarchist principles, and after brief exile in
London the outcome of which was another
humorous work, Les Joyeusetes de L'Exile,'
he acquired French naturalization and was thus
secured from expulsion. He Their went to Sicily
70 helm the revolutionists there, and finally set
tied down in a little cottage close to the Paris
Notifications overlooking by the way the rail-
wav line which King Alphonso travelled over on
arriving in the French capital. Surrounded with
books and with beggars. Charles Malato has
lived in this diminutive house in the society OF
his father who is over ninety, and with
the .Iadv companion" of the moment. for in
anarchist circles all marriage ceremonies.
whether civil or religious, have been abolished
The old Marquis di San Malato is still so rigid
a,,o1uttontst that he has to be put to bed by his
son if his attention should happen to alght in the
daily napers upon any fact incident which
seems TO imply social injustice. The lady
oo,,,nanion'' possesses what Charles Malato
o,oiabIv describes as "riche nature revolu-
+ionnatre" Ca vigorous revolutionary tempera-
roent In stormy weather, which affects hef
nerves the casual guest will hear the smash oil
crockerv. the thud of broken furniture or the
crashing of glass Malato after the most elan-
crate apologies for the unwonted noise never
fails to add with his suave smile, but my dear
sir what rich revolutionary nature f1er
nature is. in any case. an improvement upon
that or her predecessor. who was afflicted with
horoicidal mania in the acute phases of which
she would attack Malato with a carving knife
ta broop,stick being her favorite weapon when
she was "only little vexed.
,1a1a+o however is anything but poltroon.
Roth his moral and physical courage are pro
,,erhiaI among his friends and he is first class
e7-ordsman. having that also in the blood for
he Is a cousin of the great international cham
,,or fencer Baron Athos di San Malato- Owing
70 strong evidence that Malato had no connec-
ton whatever with the bombs dispatched TO MN
-, ao,,,, ,,1,sterious hand from Barcelona short
" before the attempt on the King OF SPAIN
,ffa there Is every probability that he will be
aa,,i.+ad Like the late Elisee Reclus the emf
800 oeogranher Maato is recognized in literary
.r,d r9bi,osorbical circles purely theoretical
s-,.rohis+ and personally incapable of harming
A.. lot alone throwing bombs The trial of
t,i-,,a hammered. exquisitely cultured and
80 oo5 italian nobleman is looked forward to
,,.;.t, genuine interest and with considerable
WIN c.. I. B.
amusement.
4LBERS CONVICTED.