The North-Eastern Weekly Gazette. — 1894-01-06 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THE BOMB THROWING IN A THEATRE.  FULL DETAILS BY THE MISOREABT.  Salvador French, the Anarchist, who was arrested on Mo%day at Saragossa, has made a confession which clears up many points hitherto obscure regarding the dynamite outrage at Barcelona, when bombs were thrown amongst the people in the stalls at the Lice° Opera Rouse. French, who is in the prism hospital at SaraRoves, being treated for the wound in his side inflicted by himself At the moment of arrest, has informed the magistrate that he and he alone was the thrower of the bombe. There were two bombs, he explained, of which only one exploded. For some reason he could not understand the other failed to go off. Possibly there was some defect in its construction. He tarried them into the theatre in his sash, in the folds of which two infernal machines were easily concealed, for they were of a small SIM Taking his place in the second gallery, French waited enietly until the opera was approaching its conclusion, and All eyes were on the ! stage. Then he moved out into the pas.sage, where nobody was likely to observe him, and taking the bombs one in each hand, he hurled them with all his force down into the centre of the closelypacked stalls, whore the bourgeois were sitting. In the contusion and panic which followed the explosion, Francb, who was already clear of the revile, had no dittirulty in -soaping from the theatre, but knowing that the polies being cognisant of his Anarchist ideas, would be sure to arrest him, lie at once  MADE CUR A PLACE OP CONCEALMENT in a house near the cemetery. Here he remained for twenty days, and then, deeming that the vigilance of the police would have ceased, he left Barcelona, and set out on foot for his native I province of T. rind. Fur a short time he stayed with his own family at austil' seras, and then made his way to Saragossa, 'to seek the hospitality of a friend hying at that city. Franeh averred that he made this full confession of his own guilt in onier to save innocent people now in prison at Barooloua. As to the fabrication of the bombe, he had had no assistance at all. H 1 had made them himself, , according to the proscribed formula. It was a ' matter of regret to him that so few people had becn killed at the Linen Theatre (2:3'persoos were killed, and about 40 injured I, because the Anarchists were resolved to exterminate the bourgeois. Tim ' prisoner further declared that he had first deter mined to commit suicide after having told the whole troth. He had undoubtedly made prepare.Cons for doing away with himself, for on him , were a rmial, a revolver, and an enormous knife. ' It is probable, however, that he had made up his mind to  SELL MS LIFE DEARLY, and that he wculd have need his weapons upon others before turning them on himself if he had had the chance. Salvador French COMM of a respectabie family, but his personal anteeeilents are bad. At the age of 14 he left his home and went to Barcelona, where he had lived since, doing no settled work, and giving hininelf up to the pots and revolutionary designs of the Anse, cinch., with whom he mourned aleading position. It is now reported that he is married, and that he had a wife and a child of tender age living at San Martin Proven's*ls, a- w Barcelona. The gaol surgeon will endeavour to extract the bullet in the side of the prisoner. If it is found impniiihle to remove him, Senor Dontinecii, the special magistrate deputed to itiveestigate all the circumstances of the Barcelona Mot. will o ime to Ss raguess to subject him to a searching interivga The Anarchists Delhoehe. Ferrier,, and Munzoy havebeen sentenced to sevenyears penalservitude. On heanng the sentence Ferris-es fainted, but Delboche, on the contrary, maintained an onconcerned demeanour. whilst Munr.oy appeared disgusted at being sentenssel to the same term as his fellow prisoners. seeing that be hied turned King's evidence. A man named Pour was arrested at Demaxeville on Tuesday owing to the diwrxwery at his lodgings of a quantity of gunpowder and Anarchist publications.  Sentence on a Poor Law Official.—Arthor Ginenway ex -Relievine Officer of Cheltenham Union, was charged at G I oneestershire Quarter Sessions on Wedneedity with falsification of books and false pretences. It twes alleged that the name of pediments of relief bad been kept an hie book after their death, and that flreenway kept money allowed for them—He was convicted and sentenced to three months' imprisonment.