The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-08-18

LONDON, Aug. 17-[Copyrighted,
1895, by the Associated Press. Ever
since November 4, 1885, when a GER
tain Guy Fawkes and others engin-
eered such a scheme but were deferred
and hanged, the possibility of a plot to
blow up the house of parliament has
been one of the pet scares of the Brit
ish officials and regularly, year after
year, ever since, the vaults of the
houses of parliament, previous to the
reassembling of the body. are formally
searched for powder barrels with old
time ceremony and minuteness. This
year, however, there was some slight
show of cause for the apparently I'M
necessary precautions taken, for with
the opening of parliament comes the
discovery, real or imaginary, of
scheme to sendsthe commons and lords
unexpectedly skyward in a body
Whether the story be true or not, the
afternoon papers yesterday made quite
sensation out of the affair and the
inhabitants of this great metropolis
have not done talking about it.
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 weeks
ago the manager of a local printing
and lithographing company was asked
by foreigner described as dark look
ing and mysterious" (of course) to
Autograph a weekly paper for a Turk
ish company. AS no knowledge 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 being
however, two detectives from Scotland
Yard arrived, called at the lithograph-
ing establishment and asked to see
the manager. The latter appeared, all
smiles, seeming some new business,
but his jaw fell and he turned very
white when asked if he was aware
that he was suspected of being impli-
Gated in a plot to blow up the house
of parliament, and that his Wis
itors hailed from Scotland Yard.
In reply to the unfortunate
managers protests of innocence,
the detectives explained that he had
been printing in the guileless looking
Turkish weekly-a red-hot anarchistic
sheet-literature calling upon socialists
and others to combine for the purpose
of blowing up the houses of parliament
sion. One article actually stated that
sixteen men were already on their way
to England from various points to
make the necessary arrangements for
sending the members of parliament
and the peers of the realm skyward.
Simmered Down.
In spite of his protests the terrified
manager was escorted to Scotland
Yard by the detectives, where he was
confronted and examined by the chief
of detectives and a police commission
er. To these officials, the thoroughly
frightened manager explained all the
circumstances of the case, gave a full
description of the dark and mysteri-
ous-looking'' foreigner and explained
his innocence of any completely in the
reasonable publication and went on
his way much relieved on promising
not to Autograph any more Turkish
weeklies without first ascertaining the
nature of their contents. According to
the Globe the police got 'wind of the
affair owing to the boasting of some
London anarchists. But the story of
this latest ''gunpowder plot is far
from being as thrilling as it might
have been and there is a strong sus-
picion in more than one quarter that
the Scotland Yards authorities have
unearthed a mares nest of the rankest
description