Morning journal and courier., 1893-01-10
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THE PANAMA Trial.

| THE PAN M TRIAL.
Many Witnesses Summoned for To-
morrow-The Specific Chargss-M.
De Lesseps one of the First TO be
Trted-Fontane Cottu and Eifel are
the Others-BrIbery Not Included I'm
the Indictment.
PARIS, Jan. 9.-The new procureur gen.
eral, NJ. Tanan, has summoned thirty one
witnesses for the great Panama trial, which
begins to morrow.
The parties to be put on trial to morrow
are: M. Charles De Lesseps, director of
the Panama Canal company: N. Asrius
Fontane, secretary general of the COM
pany; n Cottu of the firm of Reinach,
Kohn & Co, and II. Gustave Eiffel, dis
tinguished engineer.
Charles De Lesseps has caused three En-
glish directors of the Suez Canal company
to be summoned as witnesses in his behalf.
The indictment charges De Lesseps, Fon-
tame and Cottu with having employed
fraudulent means to persuade people to
believe in the existence of fallscious enter
prises, and imaginary influence or credit,
thus causing persons to remit subscrip-
lions that would not otherwise have been
given, for an issue of Panama canal bonds,
made on June 26, 1888; the defendants by
the fraudulent means thus alleged cheat
ing and defrauding others out of all or
part of their money thus subscribed.
The second section of the indictment re-
lates to the Panama canal loan of December
10, 1888. The accused are charged with
having tried to obtain subscriptions to this
loan on false pretenses, their attempted
swindling being only frustrated by circum-
stances Independent of their intentions.
Thirdly. 1t is alleged that the accused
had misappropriated or expended, with a
view to prejudice the interests of the bond
holders, effects and money given into their
charge as trust deposits for specific pur
poses.
NJ. Gustave Eiffel is indicted as an &C
complete in the alleged swindling opera
tions, and is accused of having wilfully and
knowingly received share of the sums of
money unlawfully procured from the pub
lilo and with having wilfully and knowing
ly shared in the profits of the fraud. N.
Eiffel is also accused of having missppro-
pristed funds entrusted to him for the
mandatory purpose of expenditure for sal
aried labor.
Nothing Is said In this indictment as to
the bribery or corruption of public Of
fcials.
The indictment against Gustave Eiffel
states that he secured 10000, 900 francs of
Panama money. 1t was supposed that he
had obtained but 62,000,000 francs The
parliamentary commission of inquiry has
discovered an hiatus in the sequence of
the company's check stubs. More than
$50 of the stubs are missing, and 1t has
trsnspired that in every case a large cum
was involved. One of the checks in ques-
ton was for 100, 600 francs, other for sums
between that and 10000 francs. If the
stubs of these checks are not found Felix
Cottu and Marius Fontane, as directors of
the canal company, will be liable to i'm
prisonment for three years each They are
suspected of having destroyed the stubs go
as to protect their reactionist friends.
ROME, Jan. 9.-Senor Russman, italian
am bsssador in Paris, has sent to the
government very pessimistic dispatch as to
the state of affairs In France on the eve of
the Resembling of the chamber. The
crisis, he says. has reached an scuts stage,
which quits possibly may be followed by
revolution. 1t behooves the triple alliance,
he continues, to be prepared for any
eventuslity. The manifesto about to be
Issued by Prince Victor Napoleon he re-
CARDS as probable sourcs of great danger.
THE AGREEMENT CANCELLED.
Withdrawal of the New Jersey Cen.
trail From the Reading Combine
The Court Petitioned for Permis-
sion TO Prove the Fact.
TRENTON, N. J., Jan. Civilian Y.
Johnston, assistant attorney general, this
evening said the report of the withdrawal
of the New Jersey Central from the Read
ing combine was true. The Central has
asked Chancellor McGill for permission to
prove this fact. 1t will then ssk for the
quashiDg of the proceedings for the ap-
pointment of a receiver. An official of
the Central says that Attorney General
Stockton is in possession of a communica-
ton in which 1t is acknowledged that all
agreements with the Reading and Lehigh
Valley roads are cancelled. This applies
also to the leases under which the coal
lands were recently absorbed by the COM
bine. What influences moved the Central
are not known.
President Mcleod, of the Reading. to-
night says: Jersey Central withdrew
from the combination some months ago by
order of Chancellor McGill. President
Maxwell, of the Jersey Central, who be-
came first vice president of the Reading
when the consolidation was an
has severed his connection with
the latter company. This is the frat an
that Mr. Maxwell is no longer
an official of the Reading"
OBEYED DIVINE INSPIRATION.
Cardinal VannutteIH Regarded ms the
Probable Successor to Pope Leo.
LONDON, Jan. GA sensation has been
caused by the letter of tine pope to the
people of Bologna in which the pontif
states that in nominating Cardinal V annut-
tell to be archbishop of Bologna he had
obeyed the divine inspiration. The usual
declaration on the pay of the pope is re-