THE WEDDING TRAGEDY.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1765, 5 June 1906, Page 2

THE WEDDING TRAGEDY.

TWENTY-FOUR KILLED AND

FIFTY WOUNDED,

NAItBOW ESCAPE OF KING AND

QUEEN,

B® ftelesncH. l’»» AmX Co»yrl K bt Madrid, Jane 2. The polioo are oonvinced that tho perpetrator is Durao, alias Mateo Moral. He hired a room three ago on ‘bo iourth floor, and bought a bouquet da ly. The police declare tho bouquet thrown oontaiood two bombs. One atruok the baloony or oxplodod in mid air, killing ana wounding people on the neighboring baloonkß. Tho other exploded downwards, scattering bulletß in a oirole of whioh the royal oarriege was tho oentre, but praoncally escaped. Duran, walking a™ 1 ? 848 " 8 ’ asked a servant why guns were find. Bbe replied that it was a bomb and many were killed. Ho replied calmly, " I will go help tho soldiers to seoute the raffian. Duran soon disappeared in the crowd. The Britisher arrested is Robert Hamilton, not Rifijerts, a bank olerk tourist. The new British Ambassador, with four officers of the Sixteenth Lanoers, who witnessed the exploßioD, rushed out and surrounded the carriage. The faces ° f friends in British uniforms reassured Queen Ena, who, recovering from the first sbooa, waved her hand out of the coaoh to show she was uninjured, and, smiling through her t°ars, took her husband’s arm. Alfonso qoiokly covered her face to prevent her seeing the dead and wounded. He exclaimed, “ Infamous oowardioe. If they wish to kill me, let them meet mo faoe to face without shedding others blood. Bunsen helped both into an empty coach. Queen Ena’s shoes and dress were spotted with blood. Alfonso, in the words of one B'itith Lanoer officer, gavo her a “ thumping great kiss,” spoke reassuringly, and showed splendid nerve. A tremendous ovation was given them at the Palace. There Alfonso yielded to an emotion of gratitude, and sobbed nearly a minute. The Alexander Battery attended the funeral, and Queen Eoa sent wreaths. Alfonso has pensioned the families of the dead. . , There was a great demonstration of loyalty throughout Spain. All Governments have expressed their sympathy with the King and abhorrenoe of the deed. Thousands on Friday signed the visitors bo k at the Palace, and twenty thousand oards were loft. Queen Ena’s blood-stained dr.ss is to be deposited at Ibe Church Abmaduna, opposite tho scone of the explosion. The authorities wholly discredit the s*o y that the plot was hatched in Lcndon. S x per=ous, including Couutess Adernero, dm A-itonio Gouziles, and Marquito Toloso, were killed on the b-loonies btl&w tho assassin’s window. Tolotsa has left eight chil Iren. Oue regimsnt lost three officers, a corporal and a private k lied, and twenty-Boven wounded. The newspaper Apcoa sajß that thirteen soldiers and eleven civilians wore killed, and twenty-six ODd twenty-feur respectively ee.iously injured. A Palace offioial infoimed (be Telegraph’s correspondent that fragments of the bomb broke the glass panel of tbe oirriage and struok Alfonso on tho shoulder. It snapped a link of the chain of the Golden Fleece he was wearing, but only mfl cted tbe very slightest pirsonal injury to Alfonso. Foreign. P incoi were specially represented at the funeral of the eight military viotime. Thero was an extrsoidira-y demonstration of popular sympathy duiiDg tbeprcocss o i, which was in strang'contrast to Thuraj day’d. It transpires that G.nsval Weyler I was seriously injured. , Doran was well dressed a~.d had plenty of money and valuable luggage. All mirks have been obliterated on his linen, and nothing wa3 left to i stablish his identity. The authorities consider it probable that the attempt was intended to ohange the dynastic eucc s>ion. The State banquet, to have been held on Friday at Madrid, and the ball, have been abandoned. Don Ca los’son, Jaime, telegraphed as a couitcous adversary : ” I congratulate you on esoaping from an odious outrage. I King AJoneo and Qieen Eos, looking | out.' Trri-o-irn'Uticaiiy Bcfliai'meo,'’ Xitoneb visited the wouaded soldiers in the hospital. King Alfooso and Queen Eia on Saturday afternoon, after at’ending a thanks giviDg service in the oburoh of Bueoa Buooo, drove to a bull-fight, aod received an immense ovation. Ministers dießuaded King Alfonso from at'endiDg the funeral of the viotims of the outrage. The police are convinced tho criminal is sheltering in Madrid,

Madrid, Jane

Hamilton, arrested at Madrid on suspicion, has been released. He proved to be a harmless tourist. The British Minister protested at his treatment at the hands of tbe mob. The Government apologised for the error. Reuter reports that Mateo Moral, the esoaped assassin, was oomered by tbe polioe at a village outside Madrid, and committed suioide.

Sydney, June 2,

The Spanish Consuls in tbe various State capitals hold receptions in honor of the Royal marriage.

Melbourne, June 2,

The Governor-General and State Go-, vernor dispatohed cables to Madrid expressing horror at (he attempt on their Majesties, and thankfulness at the escape

CAPTURE OP MORAE. HE MURDERB CONSTABLE AND SHOOTS HIMSELF.

By telegraph, Pveia Ae#’n, Copyright Received 9.23 p m., June 4.

Madrid, June 4,

Moral was the eon of a wealthy manufactu er at Snbadell. He was partly eduoated in Germany. He inherited in January last 10,000 pesetas.

Details of his suioide show that be entered an inn at Torrejas. The condition of' his boots and his generally slained appearance suggested that he bad tramped country. He had a forlorn look, and inquiries he made regarding trains for Saragossa exoited suspicions, espec'ally of Benito Reyes, a small manufactirer of preserves, who quietly quitted the tavern and oommunioated with tho slationmaster. The latter summoned Vega, a p. lineman. Moral becatuo ala-med at the ouriosiiy aroused. He paid his bill and confronted Vega outside. 4 i ' When his papors were dematd)d Moral calmly replied that he had left them at Madrid. He offered to telegraph for them. Viga’s proposal to go to the Mayor was accepted with alacrity. Turning tho first corner of a lonely road Moral ehpi Yega dead. The so,und was heard in the tavern, feasants rushed in j pursuit aoross the fields. Moral approach' ing a stream and finding escape fmpos sible, placed the revolver over his heari aod shot himself dead.

' One hundred and fifty paper peseta, seventeen in silver, a few coppers, and a eteel watch were found in his pookets.

£IOOO REWARD GOES TO WJDOW

Bjr telegraph, Presp Aes’n, Copyright Received 0.45 p.m,, June 4,

Madrid, Jane 4

Conooaled in Moral’s olothes was a receipt bearing tho Portugueee rsi’way stamp relating to a parcel the contents whereof was unknown.

Benito Reyes motored to Madrid to oonvey the intelligence to the Madrid authorities. Be returned io the motor to Rercjon with the landlord of tha flat win pae the bomb was thrown. The landlord unhesitatingly identified the corpse as that of the perpetrator. The corpse was brought to Madrid The public were admitted to view it in (Jj courtyard of the military hospital at Bui n euoeso Tho remains are those of a man of aboot tbiity, with sunken checks, an angular aod bard mouth, reoeding forehead, and abnormally largo, coarse ears.

The reward of one thousand EterliDg for the discovery of tbe criminal goes to Vega's widow.