The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-17
And Claims that but for Him the Mine
Would Have Been Successfully Fired and
the Imperial Party Destroyed.
Admiral COurbet Claims to Have
Gained Another Victory.
The King of CambOdia Protests Against En-
fOrcement of the Treaty Which lie Was
Compelled to ~Sign-Cable Notes.
THE NIEDERwALD CONSPIRACY.
How the EmperOr's Life Was Saved by a
Weak-Kneed Dynamiter.

How the Emperor's Life Was Saved by a
Weak-Kneed Dynamiter.
LE1PsIG, Dec. 16.-The names of the Anarch-
lists, besides Reinsdorf and B%acnmann, whose
trial began yesterday for attempting to cause an
explosion at the unwilling of the Niederwald
monument to Germany, are Kuechlen, Rrpsch,
Holzhauer, Soehngen, Rheinbach and Toellner.
The trial will last a week. Four counsel are
employed for the defense. Rupsch confessed
that Reinsdorf ordered him TO fire the mine.
This consisted of a large stone jar and a glass
bottle filed with dynamite furnished with peg
cussion caps. To these a fuse was at
tached, and the whole placed in a drain
which crosses the road about ten minutes
walk from Niederwald. He was ordered to fire
the train when Emperor Williams carriage was
fifty feet distant from the train, by applying a
lighted cigar to the end of the fuse placed at the
side of the roadway. Rupsch asserts that he
was unwilling to effect the explosion, and only
applied an unlighted cigar. Kuechlen upbraided
Rupsch for his failure, and the latter gave as an
explanation of the failure, that the fuse was wet
and failed to light. Kuechlen then told Rupsch
to place new finder in the fuse and explode the
mine when the Emperor was returning. Rupsch
returned to the drain and fastened fresh finder
to the fuse, but cut the fuse two metres from
Ine cndfSe- Nnen lne Emperor returned 10 the
proper spot. Rupsch applied p burning cigar to
the fuse and walked awav. Kuechlen was very
angry at the second failure. When the road was
cleared of people he removed the dynamite to the
grand pavilion at Rudesheim, where a concert
was in progress. Kuechlen thereupon sneaked
away. Rupsch exploded the dynamite ten PAGES
from the pavilion and ran away. He declared
he only wished to see the unwilling of the monu-
ment without expense, and that he intended
from the first to Illustrate the murderous plan.
A witness named Palm testified that Reins-
dorf had threatened that any one who should
betray him would be killed by an emissary from
London or America. Reinsdorf, he SAID, had re-
ceived money from London through him. These
statements of Palm were denied by Reinsdorf.
A constable deposed hat Bachmannc confessed
that Reinsdorf promised him pay for exploding
the mine. A tinsmith identified Reinsdorf as
the man who bought the boxes of him that con-
tanned the dynamite found at Eberfeld.
Rupsch adds to his testimony the following:
"Kuechlen wished me to place the dynamite un-
der the Emperor's tent, but l refused to do so
because it would be dangerous. Through the
whole affair l intended to throw the dynamite
into the river Rhine. Kuechlen declared he
joined Reinsdorf in order to discover his inten-
tions and Illustrate the attempt on the life of the
Emperor"
Kuechlen's evidence agrees in the main with
that of Rupsch. Both testified that Reinsdorf
was the instigator of the plot. Kueohlen plays
the role of innocence. describing Rupsch as a
determined rufian- The trial will be resumed
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