The Spanish Horror

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3656, 7 June 1906, Page 2

The Spanish Horror

ASSASSIN’S DISCOVERY.

Madrid, June 5.

Moral was the son of a wealthy manufacturer at Subadell. He was partly educated in Germany, and inherited in January last tern thousand pesetas. Details of the suicide show that he entered an inn at Torre)as. The condition of his boots and his general stained appearance suggested that he had tramped the country. His forlorn look and the inquiries he made regarding the trains for Saragossa, excited suspicions, especially those of Benito Reyes, a small manufacturer of preserves, who quietly left the tavern and communicated with the stationmaster. The latter sum* inched Vega, a policeman. Mora 1 became alarmed at the curiosity moused. He paid Ki bill and was confronted by Vega outside. Wbe.l ff rs demanded, Moral Cjtoly he had left them at Macu ltt - we offered to telegraph for them, . Vega’s proposal to go to the Mayor was accepted with alacrity. Turning the first corner of a lonely road Moral shot Vega dead. The sound was heard at the tavern. The peasants rushed in pursuit across the fields. Moral approaching a stream and finding escape impossible, placed a revolver over his heart and shot him* self dead. „ One hundred and. fifty paper pesetas, seventeen silver coins, .a few coppers, and a steel watCß were found in his pockets. Concealed in Moral’s clothes was a receipt bearing a Portugese railway stamp relating to a parcel, the contents whereof were unknown. Reyes, who was the first to be suspicious of Moral* motored to Madrid to convey the intelligence to the Madrid authorities. He returned in his motor to Torre jas with the landlord of the flat whence the bpmb was thrown* The landlord unhesitating identified the corpse as that of the perpetrator of the outrage. The corpse was brought to Madrid. The public were admitted to view it in the courtyard of the Military Hospital at Buensuceso.

The remains are those of a man about thirty, with sunken cheeks, angular, hard mouth, receding forehead, and abnormally large coarse ears. The reward of&1000 for the discovery of the criminal goes to Vega’s widow. ' It is believed that Moral is idea* tical with Farras, alias Alvino, the thrower of the bomb in the Rue Rohan, Paris, last year, when King Alfonso was visiting that city. The bombs used in Paris and Madrid were identical. They had glass tube detonators. It was reported on Friday that Moral was wounded, as a bloodstained handkerchief was left behind. It is supposed the glass tube broke causing a preliminary explosion of the bomb in mid-air* The Torrejas suicide had a wound on his little finger. A WOULD-BE ASSASSIN. A man arrested at Madrid on suspicion of complicity in the plot against the King was found to be ui possession of a dagger impregnated with copper sulphate. The Prince and Princess of Wales and the members of the British Mission did not go to the bull fight. Queen Ena’s mother was present. London, June 4,' The Times’ Madrid correspondent reports that Moral was known for months in Barcelona as a dangerous anarchist. It is understood he financed the last Barcelona attempt on the life of the 1 King. The correspondent adds that it is discreditable to the Madrid police to have allowed him : to enter Madrid.