Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1894 — VARLAM AVENGED. [ARTICLE]

VARLAM AVENGED.

Fifteen Persons Injured in a Paris Restaurant. Anarchist* Active—Deapermts Struggle With the Police—Tne Criminal Captured. At Falls, Monday, a young Anarchist named* Breton exploded a bomb in a restaurant. The place was full of people. The occupants of the room were parayzed vrith terror. Tha bomb landed upon a table around which a party had been sitting and this article of furniture was reduced to splinters. The person! grouped at this table suffered the most The injured numb red fifteen. Nearly all of them were wounded in the legs. Somt of them were grievously hurt and were removed to a chemist’s shop near Dy where they were cared for. In the meantime the man responsible for this cowardly act had not boon allowed to escape. As soon as he had thrown the bomb he ran out of the place and darted away. The alarm was given by persona outside, who had heard the noise of the explosion, and chase was at once given to the fleeing figure. A number of policemen joined in the chase. The fugitive drew a revolver and when he saw his purBuers were getting too close, turned and fired several shots. Killing a workman and wounding a number of persons. One oi the men struck was a policeman, and hia wound Is considered fatal. The man was captured when 150 yards from the case. He proved to be au uudersized, pale-faced and beardless man of thirty years. His name is Leon Breton. Ho had been employed in the case as a waiter, but had been discharged for misconduct. Directly after t!ie expjdsion the case was cleared, the iron shutters lowered and the place was closed. Excitement existed in the vicinitv and an immense crowd ga h Ted to discups the outrage. A mob gatheri d and demanded the prisoner from the officers so that they could lynch him, but he was protected from their fury. Breton admitted that he was an Anarchist, and told the doctor who dressed the wound he received from the policeman’s saber, that his main object was to avenge Vaillant. His liatrei toward the proprietor of the case was but a minor reason. He said there are others who will follow his example, the object of his associates being to destroy the bur geoise society. Breton speaks English and French fluently.