The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-08-18
PLOT rs NIPPFD.
.Prominent Frenchmen Under Arrest
for Conspiracy to overthrow
the Republic.

founder of the League of Patriots and
member Of the chamber Of deputies,
for the Angouleme division of Char
ente, was arrested at four o'clock Sat-
urday morning at his estate at Crois-
sey, near Paris. A number of members
of the Anti-Semite and Patriotic
leagues were also arrested.
M. Deroulede was taken into custody
by four gendarmes and was driven to
Paris. On his arrival here he was in
generated in the Conciergerie prison.
The arrest of M. Marcel-Habert is ex-
pected.
The police have closed the offices of
the Patriotic league, which is now
guarded by gendarmes.
NM. Deroulede, chief of the League
of Patriots, and Marcel-Habert, mem
Der of the chamber of deputies, were
arrested on the evening of February
% last on the charge of melting SOL
diers to INSTRUMENTATION in connection
with the election of President Loubet.
On May 81 the prisoners, who had
been on trial before the assize court
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ing the proceedings NJ. Deroulede' adj
mitted he wished to lead brigade to
overthrow the parliamentary republic,
that his action was fully premeditated
and that he would not cease his at
tempts to overthrow parliamentarism.
He acknowledged he was guilty of all
the charges exceptathe allegation that
he wanted to lead the soldiers astray
without leader. He said:
II wanted general at their head. I
would have preferred the commander
in-chief. Unhappily, had no choice -
He finished his harangue by demand
ing plebisciary republic, asserting at
the same time that he never. intended to
turn the soldiers from their duty, but
only wished to carry Gen. Roget, who
was in command of the troops, with
him. NJ. Marcel-Habert also admitted
that he wished to cause a revolution,
but denied having melted soldiers to
disobedience. He said he only sought
to lead Gen. Roget to the Elysee pal
age and that the men with him had
been merely following the officers.
Paris, Aug. 14:-A semi-official note
issued this morning reads as follows:
"A certain number of arrests made this
morning as the result of magisterial in
quiry and by virtue of article 50 of the
| penal code regarding conspiracy organ
lied for the purpose of accomplishing a
change In the form Of government
1.-THE persons implicated belong to the
groups of the Royalst youth and theoPa-
triotic and Anti-Semitic leagues. At the
trial of the Neuilly barrack affair facts
! relating to that incident alone were used
as the basis Of the prosecution, but
searches were then made and documents
were seized which led to the discovery of
an organization dating back to July, 1sss,
and of plot to seize the government by
| force. The documents leave no room for
doubt, either in regard to the existence
of the plot or as to the chief actors therein.
| After very close watch organized proof
was obtained that the same groups were
preparing for fresh attempt at an earlv
date, the proof being such as to enable
the disturbances to be averted by imme-
date measures. The investigation of the
affair is intrusted to M. Fabre, examining
magistrate"
When an attempt was made to arrest
M. Guerin, president of the Anti
Semitic league, he refused to surrender
and barricaded himself in his house
He says he is prepared to hold out fo1
three weeks, having a good stock OF
food and firearms.
The doors and windows of his resi-
dence are barricaded and NJ. Guerin an.
nounces he will blow up his house be.
fore he surrenders.
On the application of M. Fabre fresh
searches of various houses were made
Saturday morning, including the head.
quarters of the Anti-Semites, where
only uni1nportant papers were seized.
Paris, Aug. Recommendations oc-
Cured Sunday evening outside the Of
fees of the Anti-Semite league, where
Jules Guerin, president of the league,
and Max Regis, the former Jew-baitine
mayor of Algiers, against whom orders
of arrest were issued Saturday on a
charge of conspiring to bring about q
change of government, are still be-
sieged by the police. Fifty anti-semites
took up position in restaurant oppo-
site, and M. Guerin harangued them
from a window. Finally the police
closed the thoroughfare to prevent the
demonstration becoming serious. In
the course of the evening NJ. Godefrey,
president of the committee of the len.
nesse royalists, was arrested and dis
patch from Saint Lo, capital of the de.
partment of Manche, announces the ar.
rest of NJ. LIE Menuet, secretary of the
League of Patriots. Out of 81 warrants
issued some rs have been executed.