Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1896-06-27
SECRET OF THE RAID
TnE CONsPIRATORs EXPECTED TO
MAKE MILLIONs.
Sensational statement PublI.hed at
Cape Town which Il Tn
cOntradicted.

London, June 13.-The case for
the prosecution against jameson
and other officers of the Trans.
vaal raiding force, which was con-
cluded before a Bowstreet magis-
trate yesterday, is unanswerable
in the opinion of nearly every
lawyer. The evidence has proved
conclusively that the raid was
planned in cold blood by gang
of stock exchange manipulators,
in which the redoubtable, pure
souled, unselfish patriot Jameson,
must now be included, and that
the talk about the endangered
women and children of Johannes
burg was the veriest twaddle.
Nobody now makes even a pre-
tense of denying the completely
of Cecil Rhodes and his Char
tered Company. The only matter
of interest that has not cleared is
the relative money profit which
the leading conspirators expected
to make. .h
1t is impossible now to deny
that money was at the bottom of
the conspiracy. According to a
statement published in Cape Town
recently, so far not contradicted
and which was reproduced here
yesterday, one firm alone cleared
S3,U0O,O00 on a single line of 100,-
600 shares, and the same firm be-
lieves that if the raid had been
successful it would have made $780,
100000. .... . ...
1t viii be remembered that
the Chartered Company's 81
shares were run up to 90 last aut-
umn, and it is stated that this was
done by a syndicate, which had
absolute confidence that Rhodes
and Jameson's generalship would
secure the annexation of the gold
en- Transvaal to the Chartered
Company's territory by Christ
mas, by which time the Company's
stock would have been worth ESQ
per share. Whatever the finan-
cial arrangement was old Presi-
dent Kruger is aware of it now,
and it must have been grim salts
faction to him to bleed the prison
ers to the tune of over million
dollars and then kick them con-
temptuously out of Jail.
1t is evident that Edward Clark,
the cleverest lawyer now at the
English bar and who is leading
counsel for the defense, means
to try and win on technicalities,
failing which he will reserve his
strength for the jury trial, to take
place at the Queens bench. Ii
Sir Edward can secure a special
jury of well-to do Londoners nine
tenths of them are sure to be
Tory in politics, and nobody here
believes that jury SO composed
would convict the raiders of any
ofrense whatever.
Financially President Krueger
has done a great stroke of bust
ness. The fines of the Johannes
burg reformers total up 81 900, 900
equal to one-ffth of years in.
come of the South African Repub.
lie. 1t is the opinion that he will
not apply the money to the relief
of taxation, as in that event the
Uitlauders would get the most oi
it back.
johannesburg, June I3.-Lio
mel Phillips and George Farrar
recently released leaders of thu
Johannesburg Reform Commit
tee, upon their arrival here were
carried on the shoulders of thei
admirers to the Stock Exchange
where they received an ovation
The building was invaded by ex
cited outsiders and business wal
suspended.
New York, June 13.-Th'
Worlds Cape Town cable says
Colonel Francis w. Rhodes, broth
er of Cecil Rhodes, has been es
corted to the border of the Soutl
African Republic by Boer Off
cials. He has been banished TO,
fifteen years, having refused t.
take an oath not to take part il
Trausvaal politics.