Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-01-10
BAIHAUT UNDER ARREST
The Former Minister of Public
Works Imprisoned.
REVELATIONS OF CHAS. DE LESSEPS.

He Gives Up His Cipher Notes Regarding /
the Relations of Many Public Men With
the Panama Canal Company More /
Arrests Expected-Trial of the Prison
ers Begins To-day.
PARIS, Jan. ION. Baihaut, former /
Minister of Public Works, was arrested |
last evening and locked up in Mazas |
prison. The consequences of this arrest |
will be most important
NJ. Baihaut was arrested after a long
interview with Magistrate Franqueville. |
He has heretofore been allowed to go
about under surveillance. The auth orr |
ties are said to have been moved to stern
er measures by the reports coupling Pres
ident Carnot's name with that of NJ
Baihaut, the arrest being intended to
prove that the government is not afraid
to take action against any one.
PARIS, Jan. 10.-Charles de Lesseps has
given to NJ. Tiburce Franquevlle, Ex-
aiming Magistrate, pocketbook in which
he kept notes concerning the relations OF
the Canal company to many public men.
The notes are in cipher, but NJ. de Lesseps
has add ed key with which all have been
translated.
The consequent evidence is exception
ally important. 1t shows conclusively
the connection of many Senators and
Deputies with the illegal operations of the
company. Two celebrated writers on
economic and international questions and
| two eX-Ministers are said to be among
| those compromised.
| These revelations are expected to lead
| to more arrests.
Although Gen. Saussier has taken all
precautions to prevent street demonstra-
| tions, and the ranks in the Paris garr-
sons are kept full, every effort will be
| made to avoid anything like a public dis
| play of troops.
At the reassembly of the Chamber to-
| day fewer troops even than usual We're
| seen in the streets
The men have received special orders,
moreover, to take exceptional pains to
| avoid street or saloon rows with civilians,
| in order that the Anarchists and Social
| lists may have no excuse to incite tumult
| and popular demonstrations against the
military.
Similar instructions have been given to
| the police. Otherwise, both police and
| military are under no exceptional orders
| for to-day.
The parties put on trial to-day are NJ.
| Charles de Lesseps, Director of the Pana-
ma Canal Company; NJ Marius Fontane,
| Secretary General of the company; NJ.
| Cottu, of the firm of Reinach, Kohn & Co.,
and NJ. Gustave Eiffel, the distinguished
| engineer.
Charles de Lesseps has caused three
English directors of the Suez Canal Com
| pany to be summoned as witnesses in his
| behalf.
The Indictment against the accused
charges NJ. Charles de Lesseps, Fontane
and Cottu with having employed fraudu-
lent means to persuade people to be-
lieve in the existence of fallacious
enterprises, and imaginary influence
or credit, and persuading divers persons
to remit subscriptions that would
not otherwise have been given, for an
issue of Panama Canal bonds made on
June 20, 1888. The defendants, by the
fraudulent means thus alleged, cheated
and defrauded others out of all or part
of their money thus Subscribed
The second section of the Indictment
relates to the Panama Canal loan of Dec.
10, 1885, The accused are charged with
having tried to obtain subscriptions to
| this loan on false pretenses, their at
tempted swindling being only frustrated
| by circumstances independent of their in
, tentions.
Thirdly, it is alleged that the accused
had misappropriated or expended, with a
| view to prejudice the interests of
|
into their charge as trust deposits for
specific purposes
NJ Gustave Eiffel is indicted as an &C
complete in the alleged swindling opera
lions, and is accused of having wilfully
| and knowingly received share of the
money unlawfully procured from the pub
lie, and with having wilfully and know
ingly shared in the profits of the fraud.
NJ. Eiffel is also accused OF having mis-
appropriated funds entrusted to him for
the mandatory purpose Of expenditure
for salared labor.
Nothing is said in this Indictment as
to the bribery or corruption of public
officials
NJ. Cottu, it is said, persists in asserting
his innocence. He asserts that Baron de
Reinach never placed in the Golfers of the
bank the sums he was accused of having
received from the Panama Company for
distribution. Baron de Reinach had an
account at the bank, varied between two
and three million francs, but precisely at
the moment the distribution of money
was alleged to have been made it was di-
minished by one million francs.
The attempt to involve President Car
not in the scandal causes much excite
ment. So far as made apparent, there /:
not the slightest evidence of corrupt com
plicity in Panama swindling on the part
of NJ. Carnot, the utmost alleged in ans
definite way being that he may have per
functorily and ministerially given Off
cial sanction to transaction on the part
of other officials who were corrupt.
7 The enemies of the Republic have from
! the first been endeavoring to involve NJ
8 Carnot, believing that, by bringing abou
: a Presidential crisis, they would strike {
fatal blow at the Republic.
: Besides, there are several candidates
!; for the Presidency in the field, who would
4 be delighted to see NJ. Carnot forced tc
resign.
Dead from q Dynamite Explosion.
PoUaHkEEps1H, NJ Y, Jan. 1O.-Simp
son Woolsey, of Highland, Ulster