The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-09-18
HARRISON'S FATE.
viii it Possibly be that Of the
Murdered Garfield?
SOME VERY MYSTERIOUS THINGS.
Threatening Letters are Received by the Prssi.
deDs-He is Followed by Detectives
The Tanner Incident

Especial to FHE HERALDEzarniner Dtsptach.7
WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.-Win President
Harrison share the fate of G;tsfe9ds
This question was being asked more than
once in official circles yesterday. When he
left the city On Saturday for Deer Park his
immediate companions were his son Russell
and Congressman Grosvenor, of Ohio. The
three were driven hurriedly to the Balti-
more & Ohio station and were noticed bv
only few of the waiting passengers as
they hurried through the station and then
out the side gate 30 the special car which
was In waiting. But all the way from the
White House to the depot the Presidents
| carriage was followed by coupe, the
driver Of which kept his horses nose al
most touching the rear of the firsD men
toned vehicle. The Presidents party had
not time to alight when two men jumped
quickly from the coupe and hurrfedly
glanced up and down the street and then
in the direction of the station
| One of the strangers nodded to the Occu-
| pants OF the carriage and President Harri
son and his companions got out and fol
lowed him through the station. The other
stranger followed closely in the rear and
initiated the example of his comrade by
passed on the way to the train The two
mysterious men boarded the Presidents
car and that was the last seen of them.
IL was learned to-day from trustworthy
authority that the two mysterious members
of the Presidents party were agents to see
the President safely to Deer Park, and
that their espionage did not cease until Mr.
Harrison had crossed the threshold of his
cottage at the mountain resort.
For several days intimate friends of Mr.
Harrison have been much agitated on &C
count of the bad feeling manifested III Ger
tain quarters over the Tanner case. Several
very ugly anonymous letters were found
in the Presidents mail, and threatening re
marks by desperate and iniudicious friends
of eX-Commissioner Tanner have reached
their ears.
This matter has assumed so serious an
aspect that it was thought best to take
some action to prevent such calamity as
has been limited at. Accordingly, after a
conference among the close friends OF the
President, it was decided to summon Rus
sell Harrison and make him acquainted
with their grave apprehensiOns. On the
arrival OF the President, q consultation was
held and the situation thoroughly dis
cussed and young Harrison made known t.
his father the apprehensiOns of his friends
AT first the President refused to entertain
the proposition to engage the services of
detectives, holding that it would be doing
the soldier element of the country an IL
repairable injustice to cast such a reprOach
on them. But after the gravity of the
situation was pointed out to him and the
possibility of some half dementcd iudi-
vidual, excited over the Tanner case. Great
ing scene, he agreed that his friends
might take such action as they deemed
best, but cautioned them to avoid all pub
Lefty IN their movements.
This decision was reached Friday morn
ing, and those in the secret We're confirmed
as to their judgment by an incident which
happened at the White House at noon. A
half drunken man, wearing a faded blue
, blouse with brass buttons, made his way to
the entrance of the executive mansion and
began to abuse the President in loud tones,
saying, among other things that the Grand
Army would get even with Harrison for
his treatment of Tanner. The intruder was
hustled out of the grounds, and the visitors
about the building who were of an inquir-
ing turn of mind were given to understand
that 1T was ''Only drunken man" De
! tectives were placed on duty Saturday
morning, and while they were not engaged
directly by the President or by any of his
official family, he was aware of the steps
that had been taken to protect him. Every
effort is being made to keep the circum-
stances from the public.