The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-06-18
: A PLOT EXPOSED.
Anarchists Plan to Blow
:: Up the Capital.
WERE WAITING FOR FRYE.
:: They Had Prepared a Most
Deadly Explosive.
=. THE CoNSPIRAToRs ARE KNOWN.
Had the Plot Succeeded Washington
Would Have Been in
Ruins.
THE CoNSPIRAToRs ARE KNOWN.

NEW YORK. June ia Washington
;: dispatch to a morning paper says:
A newspaper here will publish to-mOr-
row an exposure of q plot which had for
It's object the destruction of the Capitol
aud other Government buildings, which
has been slowly developing for several
weeks.
=. The secret service and police authorities,
however, have been kept informed of the
movements of the plOtters, and would
have been ableIto have thwarted them had
they attem pied actual violence.
Only once. says the newspaper, about
three weeks ago when the channel of in
formation was Unexpectedly interrupted
= were the Federal and district authorities
really alarmed.
They did not know at what moment an
attempt might be made to explode bombs
in the Capitol, the Treasury building, the
White. House and the War and Navy
building.
:: But as the days passed and nothing was
done, the authorities who had redOubled
their vigilance, restored the line of commu-
nication with the anarchists and were able
again to shadow every cOnspirator and
keep fully informed of anarchstic moves
both here and elsewhere.
According TO the story the plot was
formed at the time the Coxeyite Army
was marching to the Capital. and tips of
its existence came from various points,
Omaha, Chicago and Pittsburg among
them.
The prime mover in the anarchist plot
that is, the Washington end of twas
HOnore jackson. He came from Chicago,
and is still in the city. He is q profess
sfonai Indian and in Chicago be has been
a disturber for years.
At the time of the Haymarket riot he
narrowly escaped being arrested as
principal consDiratOr. and was shadowed
BY detectives for long time. jackson is
a half-breed of unknown tribal origin. He
was one of Louis Reil's lieutenants 10 the
Canadian rebellion some years ago.
The informant in the case was kept in
touch with the conspirators. and has given
tue police the names OF those engaged in
the plot, toget her with other facts These
have been communicated TO 1.-The officers of
other cities and they will probably act on
the information.
The fact that anarchists have committed
no act in Washington upon which they
could be convicted has prevented their
arrests. Their meetings have been small
and secret.
Their experiments with chemicals have
been such that thy hardly intended to re-
sort to extreme measures. They have
written 10 letters. In fact all along thew
have waited for something to happen,
something which would give them an op-
portunity to carry out their scheme of yio-
; lence.
-. Jackson's headquarters was the resi-
dence of a Frenchman named Savant.
The conspirators met there and at other
places, and about three weeks ago the
meetings became so frequent and so many
: strange men came and went that the
officers felt they were losing their grasp of
the situation.
There was great danger that the climax
might come at any time, and great alarm
was felt.
:: The Capitol officers. including the
Speaker of the House and the Treasury
people, including Secretary Carlisle, felt
very uneasy.
;: The discovery of the formula for making
the explosive which the conspirators pro-
pose to use. says the article in conclusion,
is probably the best piece Of work done by
the detectives.
Several chemicals are used, and the
proportions make hlgh explosive OF
new and most dangerous kind. AS soon
as the police obtained this formula they
took it to a well-known chemist and asked
him to make up a sample.
He did so in bis laboratory and placed it
on a wiDdow-sill in the sun. In a few mo-
q ments there was an explosion. great
. deal OF noise did not accompany the ex-
plosiOn. but there was a terrific coDcussioD
and most nauseating and binding smoke.
although the quantity of the chemical ex-
perimented with was very small.
-: A cat which was in the room died In a
few seconds from the effects of the vapor
= An occasion for the use of the
explosives, the anarchists hope, it
is said. will be furnished by the
arrival of that part of Frye's Industrial
Army now reported in the Cumberland
Valley. Under cover Of disturbance
produced by them the plot against the
ca pitol is TO be carried out.