Bridlington and Quay Gazette. — 1894-01-06 (Bridlington, Humberside, England)

IHE BARCELONA OUTRAGE.  THE BOMB IN AN OPERA HOUSE.  ' FULL CONFESSION OF THE MISCREANT. Harem, Wednesday. Salvador French, Anarchist, who WM arrested on Monday at Saragosia, has made a confession which clears up many points hitherto obscure regarding the dynamite outrage at Barcelona, when the bombs were thrown amongst the people in the stalls at the Lies) Opera House with appalling results. French, who is in the prison hospital at Saragosea, being treated fore 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 bombe, he explained, of which only one exploded. For eons° reason, which he could not understand, the other failed to go off. Possibly there was come defect in its construction. He carried them into the theatre in his sash, in the folds of which two infernal machines were easily concealed, for they were al small size. Taking his place in the ascend gallery French waited quietly until the opera was approaching its conclusion and all eyes were on the stage. Then he moved out into the promisee, where nobody was likely to observe him, and, taking a bomb in each hand, he hurled them with all his force down into the centre of the closely packed stalle where the bourgeois  to the collusion and panic which followed the explosion French, who was already clear of the wets, had no difficulty in escaping from the theatre, but knowing that the police, being oogniatnt of his Anarchist ideas, would be sure to arrest him he made at once for a place of concealment in a house near the cemetery. Here he remained for 2fJ days, and then deeming that the vigilance of the police would have relaxed, he left Barcelona, and set out on foot for his 11.11411,0 provnice of Ternew. For • short time he stayed with his own family at Castelseras, and then made his way to Saragossa to seek the hospitality of a friend living at that city. " '  French averred that he 'made this full con. leadon of his own guilt in order to save innocent people now in prison at Barcelona. As to the manufacture of the bombs, he had had no sasistance at all. He had mode them himself according to the prescribed formula. It was a matter of regret to him that no few people had been killed at the Liam Theatre. Several =were killed and about forty injured, Anarchists were resolved to exterminate the bourgeois. The prisoner further declared that he had first determined to commit suicide after having told the whole truth. He had undoubtedly made preparations for doing away with himself, for on ere a phial, a revolver, and an enormous knife. It is probable, however, that he had made up his mind to sell his life dearly, and that he would have used his weapons on others before turning them on himself it he had a chem.. Salvador French comes of a respectable family, but his personal antecedents 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 himself up to the plots and revolotionery designs of the Anarchiets, with whom be assumed .a leading position. It is now reported that he is married, sod that he has e wife and children of tender age living at San Martin Provensabi, near Barcelona,  The gaol surgeon will endeavour to extract the bullet in the side of the prisoner. If it is found impossible to remove him Senor Domenech, the special magistrate deputed to investigate all the circumstances of the Sarcelons plot, will come to Saragossa to subject him to searching interrogation.  A