Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-01-11
FIDELITY CT A FRENCH WIFE.

She Ciirgs to Her Disgraced Husband and
Will Not Be Comforted-Young De Les
seps Gives Ep e Book of Cyphers That
Contains Terrific Revelations - The
Charges Against the Panama Canal Bood-
lers-Bepo-t That Bandits Have Cap
tured Austria's Empress.
PARIS, Jan. 10.-On the eve of the open
ing of the great Panama trial, the govern
ment has taken another decisive step by the
arrest of NJ. Baihaut. ex-minister of public
works, He was put under arrest after a
low interview with Magistrate Franque-
vile. Baihaut has heretofore been allowed
to go about under surveillance There
was an exciting scene before the magis-
trate examining the accused men yester-
day, and in the course of it Charles de Les
seps, either in temper or for revenge, final
ly, said to the judge: an your search OF
my house there was one thing you did not
find. In false bottom to the drawer OF
my desk is memorandum book written in
cipher. will write here now the key to
that cipher and you can send for the book
1t will yield you information about some
things which have been said here"
Some Terrific Revelations.
De Lesseps wrote out the key and an
officer brought the book. The revelations
which is yielded are described as terrific,
1t is indeed declared that the exposures
thus far made in connection with Panama
| are as nothing compared with what is now
at hand. The magistrate would not allow
| Baihaut to leave the room, but after ses-
- .s1 O - Il I, tt1l
| him to Mazas prison. 1t remains to be
/ seen what will be done after the niagis
| trate has made known his discoveries to
the minister of justice and the rest of the
| cabinet.
NLd Grief of a Devoted Wife.
NJ. Baihaut wasa coomparied to the Office
| of NJ. Franqueville by his wife, whose face
showed that she feared the worst Nine Bal
haut waited outside the office all day long,
and as the hours passed and her husban did
not appear she grew more worried and anx-
| ious. Finally NJ Baihaut, who, as above
stated, had been placed under arrest, left
the Office in charge of two detectives He
/ passed close TO his waiting wife, who when
she saw him, threw herself at his feet and
| attempted to cling TO him She was almost
hysterical and il was with great difficulty
that her husband and the officers persuad-
! 81 her 10 arse, After a time she became
more calm and her husband was taken to
! tbe police bureau. Nine Baihaut refused
| to return to her home Weeping bitterly,
| she followed her husband to the police bu-
reau, where sie was compelled TO leave
, him.
Charges Against the Accused.
! The Indictment against the accused
| charges, first, that Charles de Lesseps
| Marius Fontafne and NJ. Cottu employed
fraudulent means to persuade people to be.
| lieve in the existence of fallacious enter.
| prises and imaginary influence or credit,
thus causing divers persons TO remit sub
scriptions that would not otherwise have
been given. That they tried to obtain sub.
! scriptions on false pretenses; that they mis-.
! appropriated what money they did obtain.
1t may here be said that the accused say
that they had to bride the press and officials
to prevent them from "sandbagging" the
! enterprise.