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A Conspiracy for the Assassination
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In the copious budget of news from Central
and South America which we publish this
morning we have reports of conspiracy for
the assassination of the President of Peru,
which recall the Internal machines contrived
to shorten the glittering reign of the First
Napoleon over France and to cut short the
Empire under Napoleon the Third. Between
these French cases, however. and this Peru
Wan undertaking in the line of wholesale
murder, there is this material difference-the
French conspirators against the Little Corpo-
raj and his nephew were successful, each
party, in carrying out their plans to the ex-
plosion Of their deadly combustibles at the
appointed time and place, and they each
failed only in failing to hit their intended
victim. In this Peruvian case, as in that of
the gunpowder plot of Guy Fawkes and COM
pany, the conspiracy is discovered in season
TO defeat the execution of the scheme.
1t appears that on the 26th of December
last, at the house of Senior Bogardus, in Lima,
Jose s. Heredia an old engineer of the navy;
that there was quarrel between Bogardus
and Heredia and violent language, which
attracted the attention of the police; that at
length pistol report drew the police into the
house; that on inquiring into the cause of the
disturbance they could get no satisfactory
answer, but that, in the excited conversation
going on, hearing mention of torpedoes shells
and the assassination Of the President, the
Chief of Police, Freyre, without further cere-
mony, arrested Bogardus and Heredia and
took them to the Intendente; that to him
before he was asked by Pedro Beausejour (sus-
piciously Freuchy name) to prepare some
shells and torpedoes for him, but that he
(Heredia) declined the job, knowing that
these instruments were to be used in blowing
up the residence of the President, in order to
blow up the President himself. It next
appears that liberal reward was offered
Heredia for the preparation of the desired pro-
jectiles, and that then, falling in with the
scheme, he went to the house of Senor Pierola
to receive the first instalment of his pay, which
was promised as an advance; that he saw
there not the Pierola of the house-an ex-Min-
ister-but his brother at which point the
report of Heredia's statement ends.
Next, there is q woman in the case. She
bears the suggestive name Of Dolores Va
liente She was arrested, as in her house,
which is opposite the Penitentiary, were found
a number of deadly contrivances including a
case of gunpowder, Congreve rockets, torpe-
does wires, &c. This woman's story is that
Bogardus had in her house torpedo, and
that his design was to explode it as the rail-
way train from Chorillos came into Lima with
President Pardo on board but that, after
wards, Bogardus changed his mind and took
the instruments of destruction from her house.
Two other parties had been taken prisoners,
and they had oil made dispositions, upon
which there is to be searching investigation.
From these details it appears that there was
a conspiracy for the assassination of President
Pardo; that the conspirators first agreed upon
the experiment of blowing him up with the
railway train, on which he was to be a passen-
ger, as it entered the city; that next, consid-
ering this rather uncertain method, it was
agreed to abandon it and to try the plan of
blowing up the doomed public functionary,
with his own house-a plan which, once upon
time, was so completely successful in Scot
land as to commend its repetition, no doubt,
to these Peruvian conspirators. Great excite
ment prevailed in Lima, but after the terrible
tragedies there Of August last one would
think that the mere discovery of plot for the
murder Of the President would hardly create
public sensation.
Those August tragedies included first the
assassination of President Balta by the
Gutierrez brothers, one dictatorial member
of the Cabinet and two others conspicuous
army officers who, with file of soldiers,
literally riddled and cut the unfortunate
Balta to pieces The next performance was
from the outraged people of Lima, who took
two of the Gutierrez brothers captured in the
city, slew them, dragged their bodies through
the streets to the principal square, hung them
up on the tower of the great Cathedral, and
then lowered them to the ground and burned
them in the plaza. The third guilty brother
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slain, and his body, being dragged by the
mob to Lima was burned with the others.
few days later, with great popular rejoicings,
the distinguished Pardo now in Office, was
made President Of the Republic. Whether
there was or not anything in the character of
the vendetta in this conspiracy against his life
is a question which remains to be de-