THE BOMB OUTRAGE.
THEIE MAJESTIES' POPULAEITY. BEPOBTED SUICIDE OF THE SUSPECT. Mamib, June 8, King Alfonso and Queen Ena on Saturday afternoon, after attending thanksgiving servioes in a ohureh ai Buena Succo, drove to a bull fight. They reoeired an immense ovation. Ministers dissiuded King Alfonso from attending the funeral of the Tie. tints of the outrage. The police are oonvineed that the criminal is sheltering in Madrid. Hamilton, arrested in Madrid, Lai been released. He proved to be a harmless tourist. The Brinish Minis. ter protested against the man's treatmeat at the hands of the mob. The Government apologised for the error. Beuter reports that Mateo Moral was eornered by the polioe in a village outside Madrid and committed suicide. ASSASSIN BUN TO EAETH. SHOOTS A POttCEMEN DEAD. AND COMMITS SUICIDE, I Received 4, 9,28 p.m. Madbid, June 4. Moral was the son of a wealthy , manufacturer at SubadeU. He was j partly educated in Germany, and in--9 herited, in January last, ten thousand 8 pesetas. Details of his suicide show that he g entered an inn at Torrejas. The con- „ dition of his boots and his generally [. stained appearance suggested that ha j had tramped about the eountry. His 6 forlorn loot and the inquiries he made t regarding trains for Saragossa excited suspicions, especially of Benito Keyet, a small manufacturer of preserve, who quietly quitted his tavern and com. munioated with the stationmaster, The latter summoned Veija, a police, mm.
Moral beoanic alarmed at the curiosity lie had aroused and paid his bill. He was confronted by Vega, outside, when Ida papera wen demanded.
Moral oalmly replied that he ■ had left them in Madrid, and offered to telegraph for them. Vega's proposal to go to the Mayor was accepted with alacrity.
Turning the first corner to a lonely nad, Moral shot Taga dead. The sound was heard at the tavern and peasants rushed in pursuit across the fields. Moral, approaching a stream aud finding escape impossible placed the revolver over his heart and shot himself dead. A hundred and fifty paper peseta, seventeen in silver, a few coppers and a steel watch were found in his pockets. THE ASBASSIN IDENTIFIED. BODY CONVEYED TO MADRID. A CRIMINAL'S PHYSIOGNOMY. Received 4, 9.45 p.m. Madbid, June 4, Concealed in Moral's clothes wast receipt bearing a Portagese railway stamp, relating to a parcel, the contents whereof are unknown, Reyes motored to Madrid to convey the intelligence to the Madrid authorities, and returned by motor to Torre* jas with the landlord of the fiat whence the bomb was thrown! The landlord unhesitatingly identified the corpse as that of the perpetrator of the outrage. The corpse was brought to Madrid and the publio admitted to view it in the courtyard of the Military Hospital, The remains are those'of * nun about thirty, with sunken cheekii angular hard mouth, receding forehead J and abnormally large ooarse Mil, The reward of one thousand sterling for the discovery of the orlndulgpei to the constable Vega'e widow.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8126, 5 June 1906, Page 2
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499THE BOMB OUTRAGE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8126, 5 June 1906, Page 2
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