The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1894-02-24 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

ANOTHER 10111 0111'RAGE IN PARIS. On Tuesdoy morning at isbotit 20 minutes to 2 the inhabitants of that part of the Rue St. Jacques in Paris which faces the stage door of the Theatre Cluny were alarmed by a load report and the noise of broken glass. This was caused by the explosion of a bomb in • room on the second floor. In the early part of the evening • young man giving the name of Etienne Rabardy asked for • cheap room, end paid 6f. as • deposit. He had • parcel in his hand, and was shown upstairs. The landlady, Madame Calabresi, not knowing lel ether her new lodger had gone out, determined to satisfy herself before closing up. On opening the door and looking round she perceived a small tin box on • shelf. She informed her husband, who immediately concluded that it was • bomb, and went off to the police station. While awaiting the arrival of Id. lielonino, the Commissary, and an official from the Munioipal Laboratory, If. and Madame Calabresi and two lodgers opened the door again. They had no sooner done so than the small shelf, which had evidently been loosened, gave way, and a terrible explosion followed. At this very moment the police arrived, but only in time to attend to the three men who were injured. Toe room was entirely wrecked. The furniture was smashed to atoms, the door flung upon the fragments of the bed, and the window blown out. All the other windows of the house were mere or less shattered. M. Lopine, the Prefect of Police, who had been told of the dieaster by telephone, was soon on the spot, accompanied by • strong force of policemen. The rest of the night was spent in keeping off the crowd and in endeavoaring to find out some details of the outraoe. Of the four persons injured two are certainly in no danger, but one of the polioe agents bad to be conveyed home. A Madame leraitl Detest', one of the lodgers, is in no danger, but her husband is severely hurt, whilst Madame Calabresi, the landlady of the hotel, is so badly cut in the abdominal region that her recovery Is looked upon as very doubtful. - -  The motive of this new crime would at first appear to be a brute! retort to the searches and arrests whioh have taken place. There was a good deal of excitement in the air, and two or three Anarchists made themsolves conspicuous in populous and frequented districts by threatening reprisals. The spot chosen by the perpetrator of the outrage is decidedly mysterious, The Hotel Calabresi is of the poorest kind, and its repute, according to the police, is none of the brightest. One explanation is that a woman living there had betrayed an Anarchist who had been arrested by revealing a former conviction against him. Another theory ss that the possessor of the bomb was anxious to be rid of it, and resolved to leave it in the first available place. A second attempted outrage was destined to lead to the discovery that the authorship of both oeuld be traced to the same hand. As a matter of fact M. Belouino, the Police Commissary, on reaching his office rather later than usual on Tuesday, after the fatigues of the night, found a letter awaiting him which announced in respectful terms that the writer, a certain Etienne Rabardy, had committed suicide at an hotel at No. 69, Rue Saint Jacques. Then followed the usual dying requests, amongst others that his body might not be taken to the Morgue. Almest simultaneously M. Dresoli, the police commissary who somewhat ineffectually watched the Café Very at the time of Ravachors explosion, and who eventually arrested that miscreant, received another missive signed by the same hand and announcing the same act of -self•destruction at the Hotel de la Renaissance in the Faubourg Saint Martin. On going to the hotel and examining the surroundings, it was discovered that another explosive had been left, and the Prefect of Police was imuiediately sent for, and arrived almost immediately, accompanied by M. Girard. After some heeitation the following course was adopted with the full °meant of N. Raynal, the Minister of the Interior. The premises were cleared, and to avoid all further danger the bomb was exploded, a small storage battery, some elec. trio wires, and a ossuple of dyntroite cartridges L being fetched from the municipal laboratory for ' that purpose. The noise was terrific, and tte • rumour at first spread that M. Girard had been Injured. Happily this was not the case. The explosion did conaiderable damaue to nruPerty. and if the fell intention of the miscreant had been ; carried out not only N. Drench, but most of those present in the hotel might have been killed on the  It is believed that the French police have diecovered the lodging occupied by the Anarchist Henry up to the time of his bomb-throwing and arrest in Paris. A burglary having been reported to the police in the Belleville quarter led to the premises broken into being visited cud searched. A number of garments stained with chemicals, some slugs of lead, traces of "green powder," and the handle of a saucepan were found, as well as a small stove, and a quantity of burnt paper. The burglary took pboe en the night of Henry's arrest. It is believed that it was at this place that the Anarchist made his bomb, and that the burglar was committed by Anarchists for the purpose of seising or destroying compromising papers. Some firmults for the manufacture of explosives have been found in the garden of Madame Henry, the mother of the Anarchist. Henry, it is believed, was acquainted with Bourdin' who is supposed, when he lest his life, to have been on his way to Paris. Bourdia is also said to hays been at Vaillant'm execution.  A Paris paper declares that Henry inteedc I to throw his bomb in the Cams lie Frantier, where the first performance of "Los Csbotins " was taking place. The preliminary investigatien of the prisoner is new ended, and he will probat•ly be brought before the lee is Court at the beginning of March. A bomb similar te that used by Vaillant and Henry has been found on the staircase of a Paris police-station. On Monday the French police made numerous visits to the lodgings ef Anarchists both in the provinces and in Paris where also a number of arrests were made. Paris, most notable of these was that of Sebastien Faure, who is known as the "father of the Anarchists," and in whose room a quantity of correspondence with Henry and other Anarohiats was sehasd.  A:797EIAX