21 APRIL 1894, Page 3

On the evening of Saturday last, the London police made

rather an important arrest. Inspector Melville and his plain- clothes men have been lately on the look-out for an Italian Anarchist named Polti, and on Saturday night at 8.30 they captured him in Farringdon Street, and took from him a parcel containing "a cylinder 7 in. long by Sin, broad, per- fectly hollow in the centre, with an iron screw knob at one end." The bomb was, however, not charged, and it is not known whether its " billet " was in England or on the Con- tinent. After Polti's arrest, his rooms were searched, and bottles containing various fluids were found, as well as the usual packets of Anarchist literature were discovered. In addition, there were papers and letters "which may be of service in tracing other Anarchists."