A Desperate Plot.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 22 July 1910, Page 2

A Desperate Plot.

, As recent cables haw indicated, a desperate plot against the life of ; vmg Alfonso has been, discovered ; It has now been definitely established that the man who' carried • the 'bomb which accidentally oxpoded in the Callo .Mayor and, who - afterwards committed si<ioido by ' shooting himself, ]>ad dteturmined ■ to make the attempt on his Ma jesty s life. '' He had been seen during tho <«»V in the neighbourhood of the ■ palace carrying tho bag which contained the bomb. He chatted with several soldiers, and asked the time at which his Majesty was expocted to arrive. He had taken great precautions to conceal his identity. Initials were cut from his linen, and he earned no papers giving any information about himself. Despite this, however, he was identified as •Jose Carengia Tobarelli, an Argentine who came to Madrid from Barcelona in January. He was twen-ty-seven years old. The.,body was recognised hy Luis Gonzalez Calderon, who sa'id he was a fellow medical student. They had lodged in the same house, loharelh was an intensely nervous man, and half mad, .said Calderon. the mans apafoments werv thoroughly serened and two similar bombs \yer.e discovered, as well as a quantity of obemicals which are used m the manufacture of explosives. The bomb which exploded was fitted into a jewel ease of ,teel and was six inches long and threo and a half inches hraad. It was identical with the one which was thrown on the day of the roynl wedding, and by a strange coincidence exploded near the same spot. A double-barrelled pistol was attached to the bomb, and } m th chambers emptied themselves into tho Anarchist's legs when the explosion took place. Fortunately the street wvr empty but the explosion was seen by 'a, policeman, who jumped off a tramear and ran after the Anarchist. Hie wounded fugitive was soekiiif' the sanctuary of the Church o? Wa Maria, hut on glancing beMiid and seeing that there was no hope of escape Ire drew a revolver ■uid fired two shots into his head. He lell to the ground dvin" and n passing priest, ad.ministered'absoiution.