The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-04
THE GREATEST MURDER PLOT.
VICTORIA, NICHOLAS AND WILLIAM
WE'RE TO BE ASsAssINATED.

| Uncle Sam to Be King of the whole
WorId-The United States 10 Re
Turned Into a "Cecelia," or Heav-
en- For NihiIists-Secret Service
officers worked with Them For
Two Years and Exposed Their
Entire PIanS-A Bold stroke OF
Scotland Yard That Prevented n
Reign of Terror.
Copyright, 1896.
New York, Oct. 3.-"The greatest muir
der plot ever conceived, since the Reign
of Terror, has just been frustrated" said
one of the detectives of the United States
secret service bureau. ''In completeness
and breadth it surpassed anything that
could be imagined. 1t stretched from
ocean to ocean, until the nihilsts of the
entire world were working upon it, and it
reached north and south from Turkey to
| Siberia.
II do not even now feel at liberty to
| speak fully of it. for the reason that we
are not certain that it has been probed to
the bottom, but 1 can give You an idea
| of how the plan was laid.
For the past two years the French po
lice, the officials of Scotland Yard and the
United States detectives have been aware
that preparations were being made for
some great event. This was evident from
the branches Of the revolutionary society
| that were being established over the globe.
| Turkey, for example, which had no head
| quarters, established one at Constantine
| Pile, and Greece, considered without social
lists or anarchists, brought several we'll
| known nihilists from Russia to settle in
| Crete.
These facts were known only to the
detective bureaus of the different coun-
| tries, for all was done very secretly.
| But it is hard to keep anything from the
| secret service. When the suspected Rus
| sian Nihilist Dourgowski left ST. Peters
| burg quietly, and with his family settled
| in Madrid, we who keep watch Of these
| political suspects redoubled our guard
! upon him. with the result of finding he
was at the head of an organization in
| Spain to overthrow the monarchy there.
And so with the other secret societies.
We had our way of finding OUT about them
| ALL
"Within the last six months these or
ganzations all over the world were hold
| ing night meetings and there were mys-
| FERROUS communications between them
| and the suburbs of the towns. 1t is the
| custom of a dyna mite, society to conduct
| the manufacture of their weapons of war
| fare, which is always dynamite upon the
| suburbs Of a town. And from there the
rotten stuff is brought to the city when
| needed 1t was in one of the suburbs of
Boulogne that the largest gang of dyna-
| mters were recently captured.
"All was going along in this way when
we received a cablegram from Paris that
| the blow was to be struck. We could not
| tell where but advices said that the whole
| world was to receive its blow at the same
| time BY a preconcerted signal the dyn-
amite station in each country would take
| the life of the ruler, destroy the govern
ment and establish reign of terror. In
| a few weeks the anarchist government
would rule over the whole world. That
was the plan, now happily thwarted
THE thing that brought all to a head
1 was the liberating of the Irish patriots
| from Portland prison These men were
| placed in Portland on clrcurnstantial evil
| dence, as everybody knows. That they
! were nihilists, or had anything to so with
| mountaineering, has never been halfway
| proven. But the fact Of their being irish
| dynamiters,' reasoned the terrorists, was
| enough to hinge the explosion upon. They
would strike while the iron was hot.
Accordingly, from the United States,
where a very large dynamite factory is
| located and from different safe parts of
| patched in every direction, to be received
| by the societies. The blow was to be
| struck simultaneously. ,5e jef.r
But the secret service is a smart af-
fair. Working for the past two years in
| the dynamite gangs were men employed
| by the service. Their work was done at
the risk of their lives, and not once in the
last two years have they dared to com
municate with central. If the slightest
suspicion attached to them death and fail
ure to their cause would be certain
thing.
But when the critical moment came
| these men left the dynamiters, fleeing as
| fast as they could and exposing their se-
| crets In this way the governments of
| the whole world were preserved,
IF you doubt this, note the dynamite
gangs that were Immediately broken up
| Take the one in Paris, the great flourish
ing one in Boulogne, the recent seizure in
| Constantinople, the London dynamite
find and the activity in Chicago and
| New York in watching the dynamite sus-
| pects All this was told by these men so
| long working with the dynamiters Their
work might be called a questionable one
so far as honor is concerned, but one can
| not put too fine a point upon honor when
| the lives of thousands are concerned.
| "The most lamentable thing about the
4 dynamite outrages," said the detective,
| who is an 1rishman himself, sis the
harm 1t does the cause of Ireland. The
| Fenian party and the Irish societies are
| blamed for it, when as one of the leaders
told me, he would willingly have given his
| life not to have had it happen. 1t was a
/ clever stroke of the nihilists to select an
| hour when the Irish 'dynamiters' would
| be liberated from Portland and the Irish
! agitation present in every mind 1t Is
| a doubtful thing, they declare, IL any of
| the real dynamiters arrested ever belong
| ed to an Irish society.
1.-The plot of the murderers was re-
| markable thing from an American stand
| point" said the detective, because it all
hinged upon the United States.
| "In other countries America is known
| as the Land of the Free. This means
| to the Armenian that it is the land
| where no sultan can cut off heads and
1 where a man gets living wages for a
4 days work. instead of the Turkish sal
ary-two or three turnips and a fig
| In Russia, America means country
where a man can think and study, can
| walk and work as he pleases. And in
| France II means riches, for the French
can always make a good living in the