The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-08-15

Wholesale Arrest OF Royaiists In
France - Evidence Of fntrigues by
Orleanlsts

France - Evidence Of sntrigues by
Orieanlsts
Paris, August I'm. Deroulede. foun-
der Of the League OF Patriots and a
member of the chamber Of deputies for
the Angouleme division Of Charente.
was arrested at 4 O'Clock this morning
at his estate at Crossey, near Paris.
A number OF members of the ante
Semitic League and Patriotic League
were also arrested this morning.
NJ. DeRoulede was taken into custody
by four gendarmes and was driven to
Paris. On his arrival here he was in
carcerated in the Conciergerie prison.
The arrest of NJ. Mariel Habert is
expected.
The police have closed the offices Of
the Patriotic League, which are now
guarded by gendarmes.
When an attempt was made to ar
rest NJ. Guerin, president of the Anti
Semitic League, he refused TO surrender
and baEricaded himself in his house. He
says he is prepared to hold out for
three weeks, having good stock of
| food and fire arms. The doors and win
dows of his residence are barricaded
| and NJ. Guerin announces he Will blow
UP his house before he surrenders.
! On the application of NJ. Fabri, fresh
! searches of various houses were made
this morning, including the headquar-
| ters of the Anti-Semites, where only
! unimp0rtant papers were seized.
! Altogether sixteen members of the
Anti-Semite and the Patriotic Leagues,
and the young royalists have been ar
! rested. NJ. Guerin, as this dispatch is
sent, armed with revolvers and knives,
still holds possession of his apartments,
! the headquarters of the Anti-Semite
| League, to which entrance is secured
only after running the gauntlet of a
strong guard of antiSemites.
! 1t is reported that NJ. Andree Buffet.
| vice president of the Young Royalist
League, has been arrested.
| 1t appears that the officials unearthed
kilograms sent to the Duke of Orleans
from Brussels al the time President
! FaureS funeral, the first saying: "All
our men are ready" The second tele-
gram was dispatched the following day.
saying: 1T is useless to come"
| The attempt at an insurrectiOn
against the government had in the
! meanwhile failed.
Later. during the trial of NJ DeRoul-
ede, traces were discovered of a fresh
plot and of consultations at which the
question was discussed whether the at
tempt should be made to change the
form of government before or after the
! RenneS icOurt-martial
| The government thereupon, judging
that the time for action had arrived
| ordered a number of arrests to be made
all of which apparently have not yet
been effected.
| The ministry of the interior declines
to give the names of prominent per.
sons already captured or who are tc
! be taken into custody.
When arrested, M. DeRoulde shout
ed: ut is a rascality on the part OF
| the government, which is trying to i'm.
plicate me in the same affair as the
Orleanist, whose adversary 1 am
! A semi-official note issued this morn.
ing reads as follows:
"A certain number of arrests wer.
/ made this morning as the result of &
magisterial inquiry and by virtue o
Article 80 of the penal code, regarding
a conspiracy organized for the purpose
of accomplishing a change in the form
of government. Persons implicated be
| long to the group of the royalist youth
and the Patriotic and Anti-Semit'
| Leagues At the trial of the Meuilly
barracks affair facts relating to tha-
incident alone were used as the baSi:
of the prosecution; but searches Were
! then made and documents were seiZ
ed which led to the discovery of an or
ganization, dating back to July, 1898
and of a plot to seize the government
by force. The documents leave nr
room for doubt either in regard to tn,
existence of the plot or as to the chic
actors therein. After very close watcl
organized proof was obtained that th'
same groups were preparing for
fresh attempt at an early date, tn
proof being such as to enable the dis
turbance to be averted by immediate
measures. The inves tigation of the af
fair is entrusted to NJ. Famre. examin
ing magistrate.''
A police commissary called at o'clocl
in the morning at the residence of NJ
Thiebault, on the Quai Voltaire, and
number of policemen surrounded tn
house. But NJ. Thiebault escaped by
balcony to an adjoining house.
The police have seized The Drahe1
! newspaper office
The house of Andre de Duffet, repre-
sentative of the Duke of Orleans an,
vice president of the Young Royals
League, was searched and a number o
! papers were seized. Buffet was arrest
ed at Feiguier, on the frontier, as h
t was about to cross into Belgium.
The police have placed seals upon tn
doors of Jules Guerin's residence, i
/ which he still defies them.
At Macy man named Pisson was ar
rested on the charge of espionage an,
has been condemned to three years
imprisonment, 500 francs fine and to b
deprived of civil rights for decade
OF the seventeen warrants of arrest is
sued only fourteen were executed.
According to rumors current in off
cial circles the affair is likely to pro
duce serious consequences II is stat
ed that the government possesses pre-
else and detailed instructions from tn
Due d'Orleans to his agents
Measures have been taken TO pre-
vent N. Guerin from communicable
/ rx-ifI - H.
the water. gas and telephone connec
tons have been cut off
The League of Patriots is organizin
a meeting for Tuesday next to protes
against the arrest of NJ. Paul de Rou
lede. Further arrests have been mad
at various places in the provinces.