The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1892-04-09 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

THE FRENCH ANARCHISTS.  FURTHER DYNAMITE ROBBERIES.  Now that Ravachol has admitted that he was the author of the dynamite outrages in the Boulevard St. German and the Rue de Clichy, in Paris, it is probable that French legal delays will be avoided, and that he will be tried during the second frt• night of the present month. This would he a very wise course to adopt, as it would discourage any Anarchist riots on May 1. Although Ravachol began by declaring that he would not reveal the names of accomplices he was entrapped into an avowal that Gustave Mathieu, Bealat, and Marietta Joubert, the mistress of the latter, helped him to perpetrate the Boulevard St. Germain outrage. Another man, named Bastard, filled a parstrycook's mould wi h dynamite, and Marietta, who thought that the terrible parcel was a chicken, put it under her petticoat in the St. Denis tramcar as they were passing the °Arai. Madame Chaumentin has been liberated, and has gone with her children to her parents in the Rue d'Allemagne. She is a very zealous fern Lle Anarchist, but it is presumed that she has given valuable information to the police. She denies the alleged intimacy between herself and Ravachol. She says that ?he latter was only a tool in the hands of Gustave Mathieu, who is the most desperate of the whole gang. The latest report is that Mathieu has crossed the Belgian frontier, and has been able to reach England via Antwerp and Harwich. Another clandestine manufactory of dynamite has been discovered at Chagny, not far from Paris. The place has been in existence for nearly eighteen months, and is beieved to have been the headquits tern of Gustave Mathieu. Ravachol is reported to have confessed that the rest of the stolen dynamite has been burned by him, M. Atthalin, the examining magistrate, is convinced that l.is prisoner had no hand in the explosions at the mansion of the Princess de Sagan, or at the Lohau Barracks. Ravachol asserted that these were too ridiculous to be the work of Anarchists, and added that they had been organised by the police. M. Attilalie, Juge d'lnstruction, has etamined Ravachol. He was reading a book of travels when the magistrate entered, and on learning why he came asked what was the use of more crossexamination, since he had laid bare his life, and told how he got and used his dynamite. He did not fear punishment Ravachol declared himself impenitent, and said that his mode of war was not more immoral or cruel than the methods of Governments. They all killed and ruined to bring about their ends. He postured as an apostle. Gustave Mathieu, who, Ravachol says, kept watch for him when he was laying the infernal machine in the house in the Rue de Clichy, with born and reared in the Familistere, a Socialist barrack at Guise, instituted by M. Godin, mayor of that town. He delivered inflammatory lectures at St. Quentin and other industrial centres, and then came to Saint-Denis. He was received by the mechanical engineer Chaumartin and his wife, who understood that anarchy meant the duty of receiving and entertaining workmen in search of work. Madame Chaumartin has been released, and her husband is acquitted of complicity in Ravachol's sinister deeds, and will probably be let out of prison. They are an extremely respectable couple. Ravachol was constantly their guest. He boarded oaily with them for weeks gratis, and in return taught their two little girls to read. He appears to have talked like a sentimentalist, and to have been the tenderest soul alive towards animals. He would not let his little pupils kill a spider or a fly, and taught them that the insects were as much needed as human beings in the general plan of the universe. Madame Chaumartin knew him to save from his scanty meals to give to sick dogs, and was never more astounded than when she beard that three murders followed by robbery, and the dynamiting of two houses, were committed by him. Disquieting news comes from Lourdes that a large and weigh•y box containing ,i),:tairlite cartridges has been broken into while lying in a goods waggon at the station there. It had been booked at Toulouse for Pierrefitte, a quarrying place. A clandestine dynamite factory in the environs of Paris has been discovered. It has been at work for the last six months, and was managed by an Anarchist, who, on learning that he had been denounced, made off. A Nimes telegram also says it has been discovered there that upwards of 26 pounds of dynamite has been stolen from the railway works there.