The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-08-19
A GUY FAWKES PLOT
Scotland Yard Detectives Dis
cover Another Attempt to
Blow Up Parliament.
SOME SLIGHT FOUNDATION
Though the General Belief Is
Fly Cops Have Unearthed
a Mares Nest.

LONDON, Aug. l9.-Ever since NOV.
4, 1905, when certain Guy Fawkes
engineered such scheme, but was
deferred and hanged, the posi- bility OF
a plot to blow up the houses of parlia-
ment has been one Of the pet scares OF
the British >>officials, and regularly.
year after year ever since, the vaults of
the houses of parliament, previous to
the reassembling of that body are for
mally searched for powder barrels, with
old-time ceremony and minuteness.
This year, however, there was some
little show of cause for the apparently
unnecessary precautions taken, Tor
with the opening of parliament comes
the discovery, real or imaginary, OF a
scheme to send the :commoners and
lords unexpectedly skyward in body.
Whether the story be true or not, the
afternoon papers made quite sensa'
ton out Of the affair, and the inhabi-
tants of this great metropolis have not
done talking about it.
Some Slight Foundation.
Simmered down to cold facts, it ap-
pears that there was some foundation
for the report, and it rested upon the
following basis Of fact: Some few
weeks ago, the manager OF local
printing and lithographing company
was asked by foreigner described as
dark looking and mysterious OF
course, to Autograph a weekly paper
for Turkish company. AS no knowl-
edge of the Turkish language was
necessary for the job, the manager OF
the English concern undertook the
contract and Autographed thousands of
copies Of the Turkish weekly, the paper
bsing mostly sent abroad. A few days
ago, however, two detective sergeants
from Scotland Yard called at the litho-
graphing establishment and asked to
see the manager.
Changed His Countemancs.
The latter appeared, all smiles, scent.
ing some new business, but his jaw fell
and he turned very white when asked
if he was aware that he was suspected
Of being engaged in plot to blow up
the houses of parliament, and that his
visitors hailed from Scotland Yard. In
reply to the unfortunate manager 9
protests Of innocence, the detectives
explained to him that he had been
printing in the guileless looking Turk
ish weekly, red hot anarchistic ltera'
ture calling upon socialists and others
to combine for the purpose of blowing
up the houses Of parliament upon the
occasion of the opening session. One
article actually stated that IL men
were already on their way to England
from various poins in order to
Make Necessary Arrangements
for sending the members of parliament
and peers of the realm skyward. In
spite Of his protests, the terrified man
aper was escorted to Scotland Yard by
the detectives, where he was confront.
ed and examined by the chief of de.
tectives and a police commissioner
To these officers the thoroughly fright.
ened manager explained all the cir.
cumstances of the case, gave a full
description of the dark and myste.
rious" looking foreigners and estab.
lished his innocence of any completely
in the reasonable publication and
went his way, much relieved, upon
promising not to lithograph any more
Turkish weeklies without first ascer.
tanning the nature of their contents.
According to The Globe, the police
first got wind Of the affair owing to the
.boastings of some London anarchists
but the story of this latest "gunpowdel
plot" is far from being as thrilling as
it might have been, and there is 1
strong suspicion in more than one
quarter that the Scotland Yard author
tiles have unearthed mares nest Of
the rankest description.