The Red Cloud chief., 1884-07-25

The Csassssses ee Dee - ne Aesers - .
Conspiracy 60 Msrs~r the E@Psrsr.
Css~s rrtsrs sd Osher~
Loxrox. JAY is-pe<piis the strenuous
Efforts % The German authorities 20 sup
pres the fact u IL evident that there i .
very substantial basis for the general belief
that = desperate effort was made 10 murder
the Emrerot and other angus; ~pcr>cnagrs
al the Inauguration 81 the GsrmAnlx monur
men; In the Nixi.rwaA. last September.
The first hint of Tive conspiracy b.rranss
public when the workmrn ~ho were COM
piefing the cInam~nicd approaches 10 TIE
monument this spring found . small guam
iI;y Of dynamite ooac-aissi ia y drain psp-.
The discovery proioesd a great ~rnziion
and a Government comms>Slon, consisting
VI military officers and snxine~r~ vas APP
pointed Ia investigate. frosn iime ,o time
f~ragHsen,sTy reports Of their discoveries
leaked out notw outstanding the esscsts made
10 keep iis-lr ptVss>iings scrrri and !, BE-
came known that they had found traces %
a mine Of explosives directly under The
road irsyer~d by the Emperor. which
might have blown the entire cortesr
skyward except for the fortunate accident
that the mine had become saturated by .
heavy rain slonn which prscsSts>i THE UNI
yelling. These revelations were followed
by th~ arrest Of q Dumber of susy-rtcd con-
spirators, who were nri before
the Commission md then imprisoned az
Stuttgart The arrests revived the excite
inent and IL seemed necessary Ia do ~ouse
thing Ia ahate the alarm Consequently.
when the official report of th. Commission
was made and the newspapers sought Ia
learn it, contents. they were oficiAiy In
formed that the Commission had failed 10
ind any evidence OF a conspiracy. and were
told that no information beyond that state
ment would he given Ia the public. The
Stuttgart Sissfs .Iuzsay,T, however. managed
20 obtain the outline of a confession made BY
one Of the alleged c~onspsraiors imprisoned
at Stuttgart, aIpd printed IL a. a maits Of
news. This provoked a fresh dental from
official sources. coupled with an intimaiAun
that the public prosecutor at Berlin Was
making inquiries with a view of detecting
and Furnishing those Who were engaged tn
circulating lies calculated Ia disturb the
public mind. Spssiai allusion Was made io
the reports of attempts upon The Emp-roI's
life az Ems, nj Graft. az Eihrrfeld, and In
the Ni,-l.rwald- The Stidfs -iaSehsT ~
gariri this attack upon il yeracity as =
challenge, and ST Ia work Ia verify and
complete It's report of The confession. IL
has just published the results of the latest
Investigations. which show that the chief
prisoners confined at Stuttgart are two
anarchists, named Rump>eh and Knech-
Ter. The one who has confessed
is RnmpSch. and In his COMES
sion he admits that there was a
we'll considered plot. having for lts object
the ,errorizing Of all Europe by a whole
sale murder, of which the Emperor, The
Crown Prince, Chancellor Bismarck. and
Others of the distinguished asseinblage ex-
pectssl To be- present were Ia he among the
victims. The chief mover In the conspiracy,
he SAYS. was knechlcr. aud they dug and
filed the mine. connected 10 10y q long
fuse which would enable IL to he fired
from a safe distance. and did actually
set fire la the fuse. with the full
intention and expectation Of causing
an explosion with the most dire re-
suits. The only reason that the explosion
did not take place, according Ia Rump<ch's
sworn statement, was that ir himself be- !
came conscience stricken at the last mo
ment and secretly cut the fuse which was
meant To fire the mine. This story pre-
ciseiy confirms the reports published
during the sessions uf the commission up to
the point Of i,ump>ch's explanation Of the
failure Of the explosion. TN this point the
evidence a. Ia the prevention 81 the dis
aster by flooding the mines seems too plain
10 be- questioned. and the Ingenious eIpla-
nation If Rumpsch. which was obviously
made with a yiea Of saving his own neck, Is
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