The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-09-29
WAS THERE A PLOT
ToAssAssINATEPREslDENr TO ARTHUR
Sensational Story of Department CLERK of Con-
spIraey Overheard to KIN the Sew Presi-
dent In a Month General BsIIefthat the
Report Originated in Imagination

II WASHINGTON, September 2S.-A MIR
Bayley, who is employed in the Army
Medical Museum, has created something oi
a sensation in police official circles by filing
a sworn aGidavit with the chief of police,
that he had overheard plot to assassinate
President Arthur. Bayley's affidavit is in
the effect that about midnight last Monday
while laying in his bed, which was in the
lower front room fronting on Missouri
avenue, he heard two men talking of the
assassination of President Arthur Bayley
states that his window blinds were closed ;
the two men were leaning against a tree
box Immediately in front of his room; that
one of the men said it would happen in
one month; that he referred to some man,
whose name was not mentioned, had sworn
to kill President Arthur within that time;
that man who had thus sworn was Gar
field Republican.
Bayley says he was so much agitated tn at
he did not know what to do; that the next
day he informed the chief clerk of his Di-
vision of what he had heard, and he
advised Bayley to report the facts to the
police Upon this advice Bayley filed his
sworn statement. The police authorities
do not attach much importance to this
matter, but they have quietly taken some
precautions for the protection of the Presi-
dent. There seems to be no doubt that
BaYlev overheard the conversation he re-
ports, but it was probably some half drunk
en- fellows talking. Bayley is nephew OF
Hon. P. H Bayley, of Virginia, who was
the Republican candidate for Congress last
fall; and was appointed to theoffice by Sem
ator Logan. He has written Senator Lo-
gan an account of the affair.
LATER.
The rumor in circulation of plot to
assassinate President Arthur arose from
sworn statement filed in the Police De
partment of q man named Bayley, an at
tache of the Army NIedica, Museum of the
Surgeon-General's department, to the effect
that while living in bed in his room in
house No. 46I Missouri avenue, Monday
night, he heard two men, who were stand
ing in front OF the house, plot the assassina-
tiOn of President Arthur. One asked the
other If he would swear to do it, and the
other answered that he would kill him
within month. Bayley says he saw the
men as they walked off, and can fully rec
ognize them. No arrests have been made.
STILL LATER
The reported plot to assassinate the
President has put the police on the qni
rire, although the impression is there is
more imagination than reality. Tonight
four officers are on duty in the vicinity of
the Jones mansion, and visitors were cloae-
" scrutinzed. The Presidents household
are disposed to ridicule the report Mr.
Reed, Private secretary to the President,
requests the press to deny the reports that
the President has suffered from malaria.
Ills health is god aud he has suffered from
licthing but fatigue and anxiety during
the summer. lie Will not occupy the White
House till December ut the earliest, much
preferring Capitol Hi, especially in such
weather as that now prevailing.