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Show table beide the counter while the third man ignited a matc h and lighted a cigarette. cig-arette. After lighting the cigarette he b old the match under the table, apparently to avoid the sulphurous vapor emitted. t.,Af.te.r tae cigarette was lighted both hastily has-tily joined their companion who was still at the uoor and all quickly departed down the Hue d'Eneey. Soon afterward the explosion occurred. The theory that the explosion was occasioned occa-sioned in this manner does not agree with the result of the inquiry that has been made by the municipal engineers. The engineers believe that a dynamite boom was placed at the threshold of the estaurant, which had double doors. One section which generally open resting again t the counter flooring at the door was covered with iron plate. The bomb appears to have- been deposited about four inches from this plate inside the restaurant. The landlady of the hotel situated over the restaurant declares that half an hour before the explosion two men dressed as peasants carrying a bag between them applied to her for a room. She did not like their looks and refused to accommodate them. A dynamite cartridge was found last night under the staircase of a house in the Rue d'Enghehu. The contents of a number of small bombs found in the lodgings of anarchists anar-chists were analysed. They were found to contain a kilogram of dynamite and a kilogram kilo-gram of sebastine. ALL PARIS W The Wrecking- of M. Very's Cafe by a Bomb Last Nig-ht Leaves the Entire En-tire City Panic Stricken. The Impotency of the Police to Cope With the Anarchists Causing-Many Causing-Many to Leave the City. RAVACHOL WAS AVENGED, 'Twas in that Very Place that the Fiend Was Betrayed by the Proprietor and a Waiter. A SUSPECT IS ARRESTED. But as Xoihing Could be Proven Against Him He Was Released The Injured In-jured All on the Road to Recovery. Pab3, April 20. The trial of the anarchists anarch-ists Ravachol, Charles Achille Simon, Jas. Beal, Charles Ferdiu, and Chaumartin and the girl Rosalie Soubere, began today. So many threats were made that friends of the prisoners would attempt some desperate act that admission to the court was severely restricted. The mocl desperate precautions were taken to guard against any attempt to interfere with the course of justice. The guards about the Palace de Justice were redoubled. re-doubled. Every part of the approaches to the building were closely watched. When the judge entered he at once summoned sum-moned a jury, who presented a greatly disturbed dis-turbed appearance. The threats of the friends of the prisoners evidently greatl- frightened the jurors, and the journalists present expressed the opiii- ion that it would require very strong evidence evi-dence to force them to render a verdict of gu'lty in the face of the threats of death made against them if they decide against tho prisoners. The explosion last night no doubt had much to do with the very apparent unwillingness unwill-ingness of the jurors to serve in the case, for that was taken to prove that the police would not be able to protect the jurors after the trial was finished. After the jurors had taken their places, the prisoners, headed by Ravachol, were brought in, guarded by an immense number of police. The proceedings proceed-ings were at once commenced by the reading read-ing the indictment, which occupied considerable consid-erable time. Everybody in the courtroom stared at the prisoners as they stood listening to the reading read-ing of the indictment. They bore the scrutiny scru-tiny eomposidly and appeared more disposed to pose as heroes than to pay attention to the clerk of the court as he read the history of their crimes as set forth in the indictment. indict-ment. In the center of the courtroom was a tabie covered with bombs, and the apparatus appar-atus with which they were made and everything every-thing the police had captured. When the reading of the indictment!? .wy concluded, Judge Guese examined Ravachol concerning the murders with which it is charged he committed, also concerning the explosions, Ravachol in a nonchalant manner man-ner odmitted his guilt and took upon himself him-self the entire responsibility for the boulevard boule-vard St. German and Rue Clichy explosions. explos-ions. Paris, April 26. To state that the explosion explo-sion last night at the cafe of M. Very, at the corner of the Boulevard Magneta and Rue Sencey has caused a feeling of consternation consterna-tion in this city, is putting it vary mildly. The truth is that the people of Paris are pani; stricken at the audacity of the anarchists. anarch-ists. The feeling of fear is heightened by the apparent impotency of the police to prevent pre-vent the anarchists from committing out-rages out-rages when and where they please. There was a reason for last night's outgt rage. It was in M. Very's cafe that Rr t chol, the anarchist whose trial i fixedtVrH today, was arrested, and it was fcs, , M. Very and one of his waiters that tie j police were indebted for the informafc-a ! that led to his capture. So strong is ttie feeling of fear that many residents of the i city and foreign visitors are leaving or making hurried preparations to leave. 2- ' A The scene in the vicinity of the expA surpasses description. Throughout V!.. night and morning excited crowds',!;, retimes re-times numbering 20,000, filled the strej.'v01. surrounded the wrecked restaurapJ 'jtH: affair was discussed in loud an'C' I voices and everybody joined in ConSSfg the outrage. " " The opinion seemed to prevail among crowd that the anarchists not only f-France f-France but elsewhere are resolved to ft the world to take serious notice of their'?',"'-' istence and their doctrines. It is very lilji,,. that the methods that they are pursuing v of ' effect this end, but it is the general "vjfOaU; that it wih be 60 much the worse f t.tJt Ma The first rumor as told in these d "'fj!'" last night had it that the exph ""'T . : , thrown through the grating in fro eiJfitor restaurant. This statement is supp - Jm passerby who says that he saw tl L! n tine flames shoot across the paven Ht, i that the roar of the explosion im f"T followed. The restaurant was wi J was also the shop f Madame Nora: Bocot r in second hand i;oods n.:xt doer. A few minutes after the explosion-. I on the Boulevard .Vag.-nta shouted: ;f.i done, vive la republic." He was ;11 c arrested but denied that he had rail Ijle cry. Nothing could be proven agait IjWm aud in a few hours he was released. 1 A The report that M. Very had died rd Hhe effects of his injuries was incorrect.jtrBis said ai the hospital today that it is thj "fBiit his recovery is possible. His wif H,d daughter Jeanne were badiy burned i,dBjt their faces, but it is not thought that TBir condition is serious, though they are sUrfBr-iug sUrfBr-iug a great deal from the shock. J Paul Hammond, a printer, who was in tBhe restaurant at the time of the explosit sVis horribly wounded in various parts Ci3 body. His condition is critical. Anc-B ;r printer named Gaudoon Reger.was sevi burned. The other injured persons are H gressing toward recovery. H Sherot, the waiter in M. Very's rest:' ur B who informed the police of the habiH,j Ravachol of dini.i then', received an ancM mous letter yesterday in which it was s jpj "If Ravachol is i-otidemi:ed tomorrow, ;;. member that at the same hour you will olC attacked by the engine of our vengeance ! H, A representative of the Associated Pi 'Kr had an interview with Sherot today, and lB8 said that at about 8 o'clock last night a pa.B consisting of three men and woin.ipt dined in their restaurant. ThiMp then engaged him in couversati and asked whether in view of the i-artr-Kf had taken in the arrest of Ravachol he JM not afraid that the friends of the anarcblpj would not seek vengeance on him. M Sherot replied casually and then turtoB the conversation to another subject. W? regarded the matter lightly until after V'K, explosion, then he recalled several si.",'m, caut incidents that had occurred. A.Mg dining the women departed from the res ,M rant first. One of the men paid the bit Mk the party and then went toward the dooW which he held open. One of hiaJ companions placed parcel thl erriknj |