At Madrid on Monday evening there was a bomb outrage
which fortunately miscarried, but which suggests that an attempt was to be made on King Alfonso's life. A police. man was standing in the Calle Mayor, opposite the monument erected to the victims of the bomb thrown by Morral on King Alfonso's wedding-day, when he heard an explosion and saw a man running away. He gave chase, and the man on being overtaken shot himself dead with a revolver. It seems that the bomb exploded unexpectedly while the man was carrying it in a bag. He himself was seriously wounded, and three passers-by were slightly injured. The bomb was almost exactly like Mon-al's, and was contained in an iron jewel-case. It is thought that the Anarchist, who was a hunchback, would have met the King at the railway station had not the King left the train at Escorial and driven into Madrid in a motor-car.
