There is not the slightest doubt that the murder of Senor Canovas was directly due to the publication, first in Paris and afterwards in London, of accounts of the tortures inflicted in the Spanish prisons on the unfortunate persons suspected of anarchist opinions. Galli, prior, hungry and discontented, with nothing to lose and 0 reason to care for his life, read these accounts and conceived it to be his duty to kill the man responsible for these tortures. The only wonder is that assassinations of this kind are not more frequent. If the statements of Spanish anarchists in Paris are to be relied on, Spain is honeycombed with anarchist associations. Subversive literature is distributed broadcast. A revolution is only a matter of time.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.