Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1895 — BOUTEILHE AND HIS BOMB. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BOUTEILHE AND HIS BOMB.

The Recent Outrage at MM. Rotha* child’s Bank in Paris. The man who threw the bomb at MM. de Rothschild’s bank in the Rue Lafitte, Paris, is not am anarchist. He is one of those discontented individuals who consider that their talents ought to have raised them to high positions, and who neglect the humbler work they have before them. Marie Andre Victor Leou Bouteilhe—to give the criminal's name in full—is the son of one of the “officers” of the Commune. He was educated at a Paris lveee. but he never distinguished himself, and at the age of 18 he enlisted in a regiment of Algerian Tirailleurs, with whom he remained five years. On his return he found some employment, and in 1893 he was taken into the service of the Western Railway Company, and passed into several offices at Courbevoie, Saint Cloud and Asnieres. It appears, however, that his conduct was anything but satisfactory, and after several reprimands from his superiors Bouteilhe left his situation. Being thus thrown out of employment, and

greatly in want of money, he went to live at his mother’s house in the Rue Montparnasse. Mine. Bouteilhe, who lives with her two daughters, is much respected by her friends and acquaintances, while her daughters are hardworking girls, one being employed in a bank, the other in a telephone office. The extravagant talk of Bouteilhe went unheeded by his mother and sisters, and they experienced a great shock on hearing who the perpetrator of the Rue Lafitte outrage was. One of Bouteilhe’s favorite topics was the absurdity of the country giving a man an education and then leaving him without employment. The bomb was fabricated by Bouteilhe alone in a thicket in the Bois de Vincennes. The prisoner at first hinted that heliadaccomplices, andalso gave a false account of the composition of the bomb. The three tradesmen of whom he" purchased the- materials have recognized him, and subsequently Bouteilhe declared that he committed the 1 deed as a protest against the rich, and without any assistance, but he denied that he sent the explosive letter. He was a great admirer of Vailiaut and Emile Henry, and sometimes expressed himself in favor of their sort of “propaganda,” and of a general strike. He was a conceited fellow, and on one occasion, when advised to go into trade, he exclaimed, “Trade disgusts mo.” Bouteilhe detested work that soiled his hands, and on the same occasion he cried, “Was I made for those jobs?” Ilis ambition was to enter one of the big Parisian stores as a clerk.—New York Herald.

LEON BOUTEILHE.