The Spanish Marriage.

Woodville Examiner, Volume XXII, Issue 3882, 4 June 1906, Page 3

The Spanish Marriage.

\ A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY. * SHOCKING END TO THE FESTIVITIES. BOMB CONCEALED IN A BOUQUET. Madrid, June 1. The Archbishop of Toledo, the Rt. Rev. Robert Brindle, D. 5.0., Archbishop of Westminster, and other prelates officiated at the wedding of Ring Alphonso and Princess Ena. There was a marvellous pageant in brilliant sunshine in the presence of vast, tumultuously enthusiastic crowds. Returning to the Palace from San Geronins Church, the procession halted temporarily in Gaile to greet the Mayor. Bouquets were showered from balconies in the bouses, including one concealing a steel bomb,* which exploded towards the right and between the hindormost horses and the front wheels of the Royal carriage. The explosion was terrific. It killed a groom and two horses and damaged the carriage; also slightly wounding the Marquis of Sottomayor, the equerry riding on the right. It also killed a lieutenant standing at the salute and four soldiers lining the route, and decapitated a police bugler, besides killing two female spectators and injuring numbers. The Duke of Corumachnllos, rushing to open the door of the carriage, dragged out King Alfonso and then Princess Ena who exhibited great emotion. Both reached the palace uninjured. A strange feature of the occurrence is that the bomb was thrown from the only house owned by the Queen Mother and which was bequeathed to her by a philanthropist. The building was let as a grocery shop on the ground floor, with a boarding establishment above. The attempt, which marred the wedding, was on the anniversary of the Paris attempt on the life of King Alfonso. The supposed bomb thrower, Manuel Duran, a well dressed Catalonian and many others were arrested, Messages of sympathy and congratulations were received at the Palace from all countries. The populace was furious and nearly lynched several foreigners, including a French detective suspected, during the confusion of the authorship of the outrage. At the moment of the explosion, recovering himself immediately, King Alfonso spoke through the broken windows of the carriage and enquired what the damage was. He forthwith sent an orderly to reassure the Princesses Beatrice and Christina, and raising his voice ordered the procession to proceed. Princess Ena was deathly pale, but smiled courageously as soon as King Alfonso and Princess Victoria were helped out. They continued their journey in another coach. Princess Ena broke down on reaching the palace. The courtiers pressed forward, but King Alfonso waved them back and tenderly supported his weeping wife. The Prince of Wales’ carriage was some distance ahead of that of King Alfonso. THE PERPETRATOR ESCAPES. SPANISH GRANDEES KILLED. A GRIM WARNING. Madrid, Juno 1. Some people were on the first floor of the balcony. It is believed that Duran was lately living in London. The perpetrator of the outrage, though known, is not yet arrested. It is reported that Duran alias Mateo Moan, after hurling the bouquet concealing the bomb, changed his bat, and escaped in the confusion. He left behind a bat with the name of a London maker. London, June 1. The Standard states a number of foreign anarchists left London for Madrid on Saturday to attempt the assassination at a number of different points along the route of the wedding procession. A telegram since received in London by an'anarchist states that Don Jose, a notorious desperado, threw the bomb fruitlessly. King Alfonso was warned that he would be killed within half an hour of his marriage. The scene of the explosion was a very narrow street in a most respectable quarter within a few hundred yards of the Palace. The Marquese Tolose and her daughter were among those killed. The children of the Italian Ambassador narrowly escaped. King Alfonso attended the funerals of the victims of the explosion. Queen Ena is suffering from shock, London and others cities, the Pope and all the Sovereigns telegraphed their sympathies. The dominant note in the newspaper comment is one of gratitude at the provincial escape of the King and Queen. It is interpreted as a good augury for the sovereigns’ happiness and for Spain’s prosperity. All the papers agree that it is high time society took energetic measures to protect itself from the danger of high explosives falling into the hands of Anarchists and homicides. They also urge reconsideration of the laws and attitudes towards secret societies. The Daily Telegraph’s Madrid correspondent says three officers, seven men, and five spectators were killed, and a hundred were more or less seriously injured. An Englishman named Roberts has been detained at Madrid on suspicion of being an accomplice.