CITY CLERK AS ANARCHIST.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8200, 2 August 1906, Page 3

CITY CLERK AS ANARCHIST.

FORLORN TEARS IN A MADRID PRISON CELL.

Mr Robert Hamilton, the English tourist arrested on suspicion of being the author of the Madrid bomb outrage, has narrated bis adventures to the "Weekly Dispatch." He heard ouly by report on the redding evening that a bomb had been throwr, and had not the least idea where the Oalle Mayor waa. Early next morning he went to the lailway station, and had taken bia seat, when a detective requested him to alight. He was taken to the booking office, where HE WAS SEARCHED. and questioned, the contents of his •pockets confiscated. Esoorted by two policemen, he ■was then led away towurds the police station. Small boy b and women, catching sight of him, raised cries of 'Viva el Rey !' and 'KILL THE ASSASSIN' 'Suddenly a blow from a stout walk'ng-stiok smashed in ray bat, and caused an immediate effusion of blood. I stood and tamed to the man who struck the blow, and, with of forgiveness, asked him not to repeat it. As we proceeded I soaked up the blood with my handkerchief. Another blow from a stick on the right concertinaed my hat. ! EXCITABLE WOMEN shook their fists at me, and used maledictions.' After many hours' confinement he was seen by an English detective, who said to him: •Wow, look here, Robert Hamilton, you are very much to blame. Sou oometo a foreign country, yon go about as if you w re in London, and wbeu you knew there had been a bomb thrown, instead of remaining quietly at home, you go about as if nothing had happened, and you, who Bpeak the language and know ' the state of excitement in which the people must be, go to a bull fight. I consider you have ACTED LIKE A LUNATIC. You have no oonneotion with the bomb; that's all right. You ought not to be locked up for that, but you ought to be locked up aa a 'wandering lunatic; you have acted as if you were out of your mind.' 'Oh. sir,' I said, 'do not say that." Unable to control myself, 1 burst into tears the first time that day. 'Sir,' I said, 'I am sorry for breaking down, but if you will be good enough to make enquiry into my case on behalf of my Government, 1 shall be grateful. I have een twelve hours without food, looked up. tN A, PRISON CELL, bat at flight of a representative from my nation I have been so overjoyed that, doubtless, I apeak like one not quite in his right mind. I have been unable to trace any hereditary taint. My father died at eighty-one, my mother at seventy-six. My brother and married sisters are' alive and respectable citizeis; please do what you oan for me.' At three o'clock the next afternoon Mr Hamilton was released, and took the express train for London.