The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-01-10
BAIHAUT UNDER ARREST.
The Former Minister of Public
Works Imprisoned.
REVELATIONS OF cHAs. DE LEssEPs.


the Panama Canal Company More
Arrests Expectod-Trial of the Prison.
Begins To-day.
PARIS, Jan. 10-M, Baihaut former |
Minister of Public Works, was arrested
last evening and locked up in Mazas
rison. The consequences OF this arrest
| win be most important
NJ. Baihaut was arrested after long |
| interview with Magistrate Franqueville ,,
| lie has heretofore been allowed to go
about under surveillance The authori
! ties are said to have been moved to stern
pr 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 M. Tiburce Franqueville Ex-
aiming Magistrate, "a 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 a key with which all have been
translated.
The consequent evidence is exception
ally important. L sgvws 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 x-Ministers are said to be among
those compromised
These revelations are expected to lead
to more arrests
Although Gen. Sausser has taken all
precautions to prevent street dcmonstra-
tions, and the ranks in the Paris garri-
SONS are kept full every effort will be
nude TO avoid anything like 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
aToid street or saloon rows with civilians,
n order that the Anarchists and Social
ists may have no excuse to incite tumult
md popular demonstrations against the
military.
Similar instructions have been given to
the police Otherwise, both police and
5 military are under no exceptional orders
or to-day
The parties put on trial to-day are NJ
Charles de Lesseps, Director of the Pnna-
ma Canal Company; NJ. Marius Fontane,
Secretary General of the company; NJ.
Jottu, of the firm of Reinach, Kohn & Co.,
md nj. Gustave Eiffel, the distinguished
engineer.
Charles de Lesseps has caused three
English directors of the Suez Canal Com
2any 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
CT credit, and persuading divers persons
to remit subscriptions that would
rot 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.
12, 1888 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
the bondholders, effects and money given
into their charge as trust deposits for
specific purposes.
NJ Gustave Eiffel is indicted as an ac-
cOmplice in the alleged swindling opera
tions, and is accused Of having wilfully
and knowingly received a share of the
money unlawfully procured from the pub
lie, and with having wilfully and know
ingly shared in the profits of the fraud.
M. Eitfel is also accused OF having mis-
appropriated funds entrusted TO him for
the mandatory purpose of expenditure
for salaried 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
nent. So far as made apparent, there is
not the slightest evidence OF corrupt com
plicity in Panama swindling on the part
of NJ. Carnot, the utmost alleged in any
definite way being that he may have per
functorily and ministerially given off
cial sanction to a transaction on the part
of other officials who were corrupt.
The enemies Of the Republic have from
the first been endeayoring to involve M.
Carnot, believing that, by bringing about
a Presidential crisis, they would strike
fatal blow at the Republic
Besides there are several candidates
for the Presidency in the field, who would
be delighted to see M Carnot forced to
resign.
Dead from a Dynamite Exnlosion.