Show THE anarchists ID IN PARIS Rava chol and others tried for life THEY SEEK TO POSE AS MARTYRS the cafe explosion has stricken the jury with a panic and great mastbe the evidence to convict PARIs april 26 the trial of the anarchists Rava chol charles achille simon james heal iteal charles ferdin and ahau martin aud the girl rosalie rosalle Sou bere began today to day S bo 0 many threats were made that friends of the prisoners would attempt some desperate P erate act that admission to the court was be severely verely restricted the mot most mo t desperate precautions ions were taken to guard against any attempt to interfere with the course of justice the guards about the de la justice were redoubled redouble dEvery livery part of the approaches to the building were closely watched when hen the judge entered he at once sum trion etl th eury eJury who presented ted a greatly dk disturbed appearance the threats of the tile friends of the prisoners 0 evidently greatly frightened the jurors and the journalists present expressed the opinion that it would require very evidence to force them to render a verdict of guilty in ili the tile face of the threats of death made against them if they decide against the prisoners the explosion lait last night no douht doubt had much to do 49 with the very apparent unwillingness of the jurors to erve in the ease case for it was taken as a proof that the police would not be able to protect alieu the jurors J bors after the trial was finished after S ter the jurors had taken their places the an prisoners s boners headed by Rava Ilava chol were brought in guarded by an immense number of police the proceedings were w ere at once commenced by the reading of the indictment which occupied consi considerable m erable time everybody the court room stared at the prisoners rs bathey they stood listening to the reading ea ing of t the he indictment indictment they bore the scrutiny compo composedly y and appeared more disposed to poe pose as heroes her oes than to pay attention to the clerk of the court as he lie read the history of their crimea crimes as set forth in in the indictment in the center of the court room was a table covered with bombs and the apparatus with ft ith which they were made and every everything thing the police had captured ap nall when it the reading of the indictment was aa concluded jud jude go guese examined Rava chol concerning the murders murder which it Is charged he lie committed also concerning the explosions Hava chol in lit a nonchalant manner admitted his guilt guilt and took upon himself the entire responsibility sili lity for the tile boulevard st german and hue elicha clichy explosions when judge buea questioned Rava chol he admitted in lit an insolent manner his criminal history BO so lar far as it is known to the police but added that if he be was questioned concerning the tile crimes of which he lie is suspected and not accused amused he be ft would not nt re respond thug the judge d ge asked him if the tile sum m of I 1 5 francs I 1 bancs found in his roo room m wh when n arrested were the proceeds ed of the murder of the old man at Cham chambly blea lM precisely answered gla glancing nellif around as though enjoying enio ying 1 th the e e effect fr ec ti the le answer ard produced cw agin Rava ego chol al also 0 admitted he intended to kill the policeman stationed in fronton front of the police station at chichy clichy but was prevented anted by friends in hla ilia a address ress t the h public prosecutor declared the prisoners 0 ne r s to bt b assassins not anarchists d that ta the tile trial therefore was a matter of common in on law he ile caused a sensation nen aaion when he lie read a letter from a belgian magistrate informing him that anarchists were bending sending in c cartridges 1 ir bridgen to pans paris he ile concluded by calling 12 9 on the jury to return a it verdict i e t against Rava Ilava chol and also to sign it without a any ny reco recommendations rn ions of mercy and to cretu return rn a severe verdict against beava the other two prisoners were left to the discretion of the jury A lorce of municipal guards was kept under arms at the prefecture all day lay while the tile palais de la justice fairly swarmed with republican guards ready to crush any attempt at demonstration or to blow up the place ath th dynamite at up y p m ohp the court reassembled after recess lacasse began his address for rava chol he ile insisted the prisoner of fences were political and no not a common law crime Rava chol only wanted to assist the p poverty stricken class to w which aich he himself belonged he ire appen appealed led to the jury to imagine themselves in the worlds words misery with which Rava chol was acquainted quain ted and said one must be of great strength of minato mind to resist beco becoming mingan an a anarchist rc inthe in the face of euch such scenes and ac acta tit s 0 of injustice lac lacasse a concluded an impassioned oration al almost anost amounting to a defence of anarchism arell ar ism by asking a verdict in accordance with what he be considered extenuating circumstances cum stances simons attorney next addressed the jury after this the attorn attorneys evs of the other pry four our prisoners prin onera addressed the jury Rava chol was permitted to address the court he lie declared t 1 himself of full confidence that hla his actions would bear fruit adding may my unintentional victims understand and pardon my acts the tile judge summed up the evidence el dence briefly and the jury retired their verdict found Rava chol and simon guilty and sentenced them to penal servitude for life the other prisoners were acquitted I 1 I 1 I 1 1 1 1 j ka I 1 1 1 1 pait PARIS is april to state that the explosion he on last a at n night ight at the ca cafe fe of sl 31 very at the corner corne r of the boulevard magneto and d hue has caused a beeline of con ste sterria mation tion in bi this city is putting it very mildly the troth truth is that the people of paris are panic stricken at the audacity of the anarchists the feeling of fear is heightened heighten by y t the e apparent impotency impotency of the police lieb to prevent r ent the abare anare 1 lists fro from in com m when and where they PI please be there here was a rea reason on for last nights out raze it af cafe that kava chol the anarchist whose trial is is fixed for today to day was arrested and it i t was w as to sl 31 very ver y and one of bis his waiters wait ers th that t the police were indebted for the information that tit t led to his capture bo so strong is the feeling feeling of fear that many residents of the city and foreign visitors tora are leaving or making hurried preparations to leave the scene in the vicinity of the explosion on surpasses description throughout the night and morning exalted times numbering filled the street and surrounded the wrecked restaurant the affair was discussed in loud and angry an gr voices v olce and sand everybody joined in condemning con de m n the outrage Ille 1 he opinion seemed to prevail among the crowd that the anarchists ats not only from prance but elsewhere are resolved to force the world to take serious notice of their existence and their boet doctrines rinea it la is very likely that the tile methods method a that th they are pursuing will ellece eil ct this end hut but iffa it 3 the general genera j opinion that it will will be 0 so o much the for them tile first rumor as told in these dispatches last night had it that the explosive was as thrown through the grating in ili front 0 of f the restaurant this statement is is sup ported by a passerby who says that he saw the serpentine name flame shoot across the pavement and that the tile roar of the explosion immediately followed the caurant re was wa wrecked as was also the shop of or madame loranze Iso No ranze dealer in second hand goods next door A few minutes after the explosion a man on boulevard Ila magenta genta shouted vell well done vivela vive la republic lie ile was abonce at once arrested but denied that lie had raided raised the tile cry nothing could be proven against him and in a few houra hours lie was relea released ed the report that INI very had died from the tile ef recta of his injuries was incorrect it is said at the hospital today to day that it is thought hia life recovery is possible his Ilia wife and daughter jeanne were badly burned about their fa facer c es but it is is not thought that their condi condition conditio tio n is serious though they are 8 suffering a afen n a areat deal from the tile shock 1 paul aul fla JI ammond nimond a printer who was in the restaurant atthe time of the explosion is horribly wounded in various parts of his body avye his ilia condition is critical another arother printer P t r named gaudoin keger was severely sever e li burned the other injured persona persons are pro rog grewing tow toward ard recovery 8 h erot thewalt lle walter crin in ai M rant wh who I 1 informed al the tile golice police of the habit of of dining t there ere received an anonymous letter yesterday in which it was said paid if is condemned tomorrow to morrow remember that at the same hour you will be attacked by the engine engi neof of our vengeance ge ance I 1 A are representative r e a tentative enta tive of the associated press had arpi an interview n with today to day and lie said that at about 8 last night a party consisting of three men and a woman arty dined ha in their restaurant they then engaged him film in conversation and asked whether in vi view ew of the part he had taken in the arrest of Kava chol he was not afraid that the friends of the anarchists would not seek v vengeance enge ance on oil him replied casually and then turned the conversation to another subject lie regarded the matter lightly a until all after I 1 the lie explosion then he recalled several signi significant fl incidents incidents that had occurred after dining the woman departed from the restaurant first one of the men paid the bill of the party and then went toward the tile door which he held open one of his companions placed a panel parcel under C ft ata table ble beside the counter while the third man ignited a match and lighted a cigarette e tie after lighting the cigarette ho lie held beld I 1 the he match watch under the table apparently to avoid the sulphurous vapor vapo r emitted after the cigarette was lighted both hastily joined their companion who alio was still at the door and all quickly departed down the hue dan dancey boon soon art afterward erward the explosion occurred mccu the theory that the explosion was occasioned in ili this manner does not agree with the result of the inquiry that has been made by the municipal engineers the engineers believe that a d dynamite bomb was placed at the threshold thres threshold holi of the restaurant which ahad had double doors one section which which was generally open was resting against the counter and the flooring at the door was covered with iron plate the bomb appears to have been deposited about four inches inch from tins this plate inside the restaurant the landlady of the hotel situated over the restaurant declares that half an hour before the ex explosion two men dressed as peasants carrying a bag between them a applied tober to her fora for a room shedid bhe did not re like their looks and refused to accommodate them A dynamite cartridge was found last night tit g ht under the staircase of a house in the hue t u e the contents of a number of small bombs found in the lodgings of anarchists were analyzed they were found to contain a kilogram of din dynamite amite all and I 1 a kilogram Ulo grini of sebastine sebast lne |