The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-15
Visit of the Car and Czarina to
Victoria the Time Set for
the First Explosion.
sCHEMERs ARE TRACKED FROM
THE UNITED STATES.
Scotland Yard Detectives Discover
the Plans of Assassination in
Time to Prevent Them.

cation of a semi-official character was
issued this afternoon. touching the arrest
OF the alleged dynamite conspirators. The
communication says, among other things,
that the Scotland Yard officials have been
fully aware for some time past that gang
OF desperadoes has been engaged in
America in preparing the details and
arran2ing the Iamifcations of an exlen-
slve and dlabolical ploE to perpetrate a
dynamite outrage in England and estab-
lish reign of terror.
Chief Inspector Melville of the Metro
politan police has had charge of the Scot
land Yard arrangements for frustrating
the designs of the conspIrators, and grad
ually and with great secrecy drew net
work around the plotters. The fact was
known to the police that the conspirators
were In close communication with promi-
nent Russian nihilists in the United
States, and through this information the
police were enabled to discover upon
almost undoubted evidence that the con-
spiracy had recently developed a scheme
to perpetrate an outrage upon the Car
upon the occasion of his visit to England
The prime movers of the plot were Fe-
mans in America, and when they had car
ried their conspiracy as far as they could
in the United States lyman and the other
principal agents were sent to Europe to
put the designs of the plotters into execu-
ton. They left America as secretly as
possible, coming by different routes. Their
arrival was known, however, and their
every movement was logged by the Scott
land Yard detectives.
After treating of the arrests of the dyna.
miters and the capture by the police of all
OF their documents, etc., the communica-
ton adds that Bell was esgnated to go to
Scotland Yard to direct a series of out
RACES there, the necessary explosives to be
sent to him from Belgium as they might
be required. When Bell was taken into
custody he had between E300 and 9400 in
cash upon his person, together with Amer
lean letters of credit.
The Central News says that the plot in
which it is charged lyman, Bell and
Wallace were implicated, was Matched in
the United States, and that it was wide.
spread in its ramifcations not only in
England but in various Continental
countries. The conspiracy was started
months ago and although those connected
with it thought they were working with
the utmost secrecy so far as the authors
ties were concerned there were among the
plotters two or three agents of the British
Governme mt, who kept the London police
advised of every move that was made or
proposed by the conspirators from the
very inception of the plot.
The police here knew even the names of
the men who were selected by the Ameri-
can Revolutionary Society to cause ex-
pIosions here and on the Continent It
was well known that ever since the defeat
of the Irish home rule bill the physical
force party had been active in the spread
of its propaganda, and steps were at once
taken to closely but secretly watch
those who it was anticipated would be-
likely to enter into con nspiracy against
the Government. Thus the tact of the
conspiracy was learned, the British agents
in the United States completely deluding
the chief'plotters into the belief that they
were bitter enemies of the British Govern
ment and would go to any lengths to
secure the freedom of Ireland. 1t was
learned that the conspirators were in
alliance with the Fenians, anarchists and
nihilists, and that they were all working
together. The nihiEists, who do not ap-
pear to have been specially interested in
freeing Ireland from the British yoke,
subscribed funds and dynamite for the
leaders, but only on the express condition
that "business" should be done on the
Continent.
The visit of the Czar and Czarina to the
Queen at Balmoral and their subsequent
journey to France were deemed by the
nihilists to be the most suitable occasion
on which to attempt the lives of their I'M
perial Maiesties. The donors to the funds
in America, however, insisted that blow
should first be struck at England. 1t can
be stated in this connection that Inspector
Melville recently went TO Paris, where it is
supposed he conferred with the police as
to the best means of circumventing the
plans of the conspirators. At that time
the English papers were not aware of the
existence of the plan, and in their COM
ments on the inspectors journey to Paris
they stated, while pointing out the exist
ence in London of large anarchist coll
ony, that the Czar would, without doubt,
be TAR safer in England without any police
protection than he would be in Paris with
all the safeguards that might be adopted
by the police of that city. The result of
the knowledge obtained by the police does
not appear TO bear out the claims made by
the newspapers.
1t is stated that the conspirators before
they left the United States were taught
how to mix chemicals to form high explo-
sives and to use clockwork to cause explo-
sions. The teacher was Russian profess