Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-06-04
Morales, Who Attempted to Take
Life Of Spanish King and Queen
a Suicide Murdered Guard.
POSITIVELY IDENTIFIED.
Senior Cuesta Says Morales Is the
Man Who Hired the Room From
Which the Bomb Was Thrown
Victims of the Explosion Now
Number Twenty-four-More Than
Eighty Were Wounded by Machine.

MADRID, June 4.-The capture and
suicide Saturday night at Torrejon de
Ardos of Manuel Morales. the chief
suspect in the bomb outrage against
King Alfonso and Queen Victoria, adds
another dramatic chapter to the Incl
dents surrounding the royal wedding.
Morales was recognized in the little
town of Torrejon de Ardos, midway
between Madrid and Alcala. A guard
sought to detain him, but Morales,
drawing revolver, shot the guard
dead. Then he turned to fee, but a
number of the inhabitants of the town
were upon him, and, turning the re-
volver upon himself, he sent shot in
the region of his heart, expiring a few
minutes later. Senor Cuesta, proprie.
tor of the hotel from the balcony of
which Morales threw the bomb, view
ed the body and completely identified
it as that of his recent guest.
1t was 8 o'clock Saturday evening
when Morales, disguised in the garh
of workingman. entered the station
at Torrejon de Ardos. He asked a
child who was in charge of the Office
the time the next train would depart
for Barcelona. He then sought food in
nearby shop. His Catalonian accent
at first attracted attention to him. 1t
was then noticed that his workman's s
suit was entirely new and did not cor
respond in texture to that usually worn
by person of his station in life, his
face and manners showing him to be
man of some distinction.
The stranger sought to take road
leading into the country, but the watch
man intercepted him and demanded to
know his identity. Morales declined
to give this, whereupon a guard ar
rested him. Instantly Morales drew
a revolver from his pocket and fired,
the guard falling dead. Morales start
ed up the road, but small group of
villagers ahead barred his passage
Then, turning, he deliberately pointed
the weapon to his heart, fired and
pitched forward in the roadway.
The body of Morales was exposed
for the purpose of allaying public in
dignation. Thousands of persons surg
ed before the municipal morgue seek
ing to get in line to be admitted to the
room where the body lay, but cavalry
and infantry blocked the efforts of the
throng, which murmured imprecations
against the assassin. Public feeling
was intense, chiefly because of the
great number of victims. 1t is seldom
that a bomb explosion has had such
deadly effect, the casualties in this in
stance being twenty-four persons kill.
ed and over eighty wounded
The American envoy to the royal
wedding, Frederick w. Whtridge, and
his suit had an opportunity for brief
conversation with King Alfonso dur
ing the reception at the palace. When
the conversation naturally turned to
the attempt on the king and queen,
King Alfonso shrugged his shoulders
and made the following significant
statement, showing how he views the
future:
"Yes. fortunately 1t was unsuccess-
full. but it will come again. 1t may be
any time perhaps tomorrow, perhaps
within month, perhaps within year
but it will come"
The face of the king wore look of
calm resignation as he gave this fore
east of the future. Although he bore
himself splendidly throughout the ter
rible experience, the courtiers witness
ed trying scene as King Alfonso and
Queen Victoria hurried within the cas-
tie after the attempt was made to as
sassinate them. For a moment Al
fonsos nerves were completely un-
strung and, turning to Queen Victoria,
her dress spattered with blood, he ex-
claimed:
"Why did | bring you to this coun-
try? 1t was wrong. You never should
have come here"