Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-12-17
A PITILESS PLOT.
startling Scheme to Assassinate Lead
ing Men aud Exterminatc the
Chinese in san francisco.
Tho Lender OF the Band Arrested md
Makes n Clean Hreast--Ann.Cooiy
Dynnmiters.

SAN Francisco, Cali, Dec. lG.--A most
sensational and startling plot for the
wholesale assassination OF some Of the
most prominent men IN the city came to
light here late last night. Some time ago
the Socalistic Revolutionary association
was organized. The police Kept strict
watch on their movements and succeeded
In obtaining thC minutes OF their meetings,
from which It WIS discovered that it was
the intention Of the association TO put out
Of the way about twenty men, including
w. +. Coleman, Congressman w. w.
Morrow, Gen. Barnes, Mayor Bartlett,
United States Judge Lorenzo Sawyer,
Leland Stanford, Charles Croker, Gov.
Stoucman the principal police officials and
several others. The executive committee
was to carry out the orders OF the aaso-
citation. The committee was to devise
the best mode OF accomplishing It's ends,
and was thus engaged when the work was
brought 20 sudden termination last
night by the discovery OF the associations
headquarters, and the arrest Of four men
found IN the rooms, where was also found
Il complete laboratory for the manufacture
Of internal machines. The men were
taken to the city prison, where they
boldly asserted that they were dynamiters,
aud proposed TO get rid of the citizens
named and then wipe out Chinatown. The
prisoners also belong to the German
branch OF the Anti-Cooley league. No
charge Is yet entered against them; fur
Their developments are expected.
The leader of the band is II. Weiscman,
a Bayarlan by birth and 4 theoretical
chemist by profession. He was induced
to join Coroner O'Donncll's Anti.Cooly
league, and finally became president oF
the German Antl.Cooly. "My mtcntionF
lac said, was merely to aid in cnforcbg
what 'ODOnncll tod us was the Jaw
against Chinese. He told us TINY the
state constitution prohibited Chinese
from living within the limits of Any in
corporatcd town, or city, in the fate. He
showed US the law and read fG myself
He never told me that w supreme
court declared the law Institutional,
and | believed that IL vas the law,
although have since beep told it was
not. We had meeting N the sand lot
Thanksgiving day and r%olved that we
would call on the municipal authorities
to enforce the law or Aslgn. O'Donncll
told us that we had fight to do this, and
he always boosted tbkt he was the second
highest officer in thScity. | supposed he
NH'N 1Hh' DNAiNNHA NtlN luuulSlbal duIuOil-
ties would be compelled to order them to
leave the city.F The only thing that
troubled me Vas that O'Dounoll was
always lettngHbn that the Chinese were
supplied witg superior arms, that they
had armori$ in Chinatown and were
drilling cyeE night with Winchester ri
hes supplifd them by Col. Bee, the Chi
ncse conSul. Most of our people are
working /peobic, aud had no arms. ! |
was afTGid when the Chinese were or
dercd to 90 they would resist and attack
our people, and resolved to egperim emit
and see If | could not invent u superior
weapon. ! commenced my experiment
about twelve days ago, and bought some
dynamite. My idea was TO make
weapon that would be thrown like Il hand
grenade. ! experimental at different
times under rocks near the ella house,
but the results were not satlsfaCtory
O'Donnell knew We were experiment.
ing"
koosher, also known as Lowalski is u
Russian jew and was driven from that
country, owing to prosecutions of his pco-
pie by the Russian government. He
Identified himself with the Anti-Cooly
league on coming TO this city. the
house IN which the dynamite was found
was occupied by him. The prisoners
nave been charged with misdemeanor for
unlawfully storing giant powder. The
severest penalty is six months imprison-
ment and $1,000 fine.