The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-08-13
AN ORLEANIST PLOT.

A police commissary called at a. M
at the residence Of M. Thiebault, on the
Quai Voltaire, and a number of police
men surrounded the house But. M THE
bault escaped by a balcony to an ad-
joining house
The police have seized the Drapeau
newspaper) office.
The house of Andre de Guffel, repre-
sentative of the Due dOrleans and vice
president of the Young Royalist league.
was searched, and a number of papers
seized. Buffet was arrested at Feiget,
on the frontier, as he was about to cross
into Belgium.
M. Maillard, of the Petit Partisan staff.
was arrested on the charge of urging
soldiers to plebescite on the form of
government
The police have placed seals upon the
doors of Jules Guerin's residence. in
which he still defes them.
At Nancy man named Pieson was ar
rested on the charge of espionage, and
has been condemned to three years. i'm
prisonment, 500 francs fine, and to he
deprived of civil rights for a decade.
or the seventeen warrants of arrest
issued, only fourteen were executed.
NJ. Fabre began to interrogate PAM
Deroulede this evening.
AS the cells at police Headquarters
are all occupied several Of the prisoners
will be transferred to the prison De Ia.
Sante.
According to rumors current in official
circles the affair is likely to produce
serious consequences. It is stated that
the government possesses precise and de-
tailed instructions from the Due dor
leans to his agents. It IS pointed ou+
that when the arrest Of DerouIede wss
made, no outsiders knew that the narti-
sans of the Duke of Orleans were noixed
up in the affair
Cur1ously enough, Prince Victor Bona
parte has been closely watched bv the
Orleanists for several months +hev faor0
ing that he might disturb their scben,ae
1t appears that the officials nm
earthed kilograms sent by the Duke of
Orleans from Brussels at the time Of
President Faure's funeral, the first saw
ing:
Al our men are ready"
The second telegram was DISPATCHED
the following day. saying:
1T Is useless to come
The attempt at an instruction against
the government had in the meanwhile
failed. Later, during the trial of M
Deroulede, traces were discovered Of .
fresh plot and of consultations at which
the question was discussed whether the
attempt should be made to change the
form of government before or after the
Rennes court-martial The govern
ment thereupon, judging that time for
action had arrived, ordered number
OF arrests to be made all of which an
parently have not yet been effected. The
ministry of the interior declines to give
the names of the prominent persons al
ready captured or who are to be taken
into custody. When arrested M ne
rouIede shouted:
1T is rascality on the part of tho
government, which is trying to imn1t-
cate me in the same affair as the 0r-
leanists, whose adversary I ann
NJ. Deroulede, chief of the T,eao,,o -.
Patriots, and Marcel-Habert q member
of the chamber of deputies. were ~
rested on the evening of May % last On
the charge of melting soldiers to in
subordination in connection with the
! election of President Loubet. On Nav
81 the prisoners, who had been on trial
before the assize court in Paris, were
acquitted, although during the proceed
tngs NJ. Deroulede admitted he wished
to lead brigade to overthrow the par
liamentary republic; that his action was
fully premeditated, and that he would
not cease his attempts to overthrow
INSTRUMENTATION. He acknowledged he
was guilty of all the charges EXCEPT the
allegation that he wanted to lead the
soldiers astray without a leader, He
said:
II wanted a general at their head. 7
would have preferred the commander
in-chief. Unhappily, 1 had no choice. 4"
He finished his harangue by demand
Ing a plebisciary republic, asserting
at the same time that he never in
tended to turn the soldiers from their
duty, but only wished to carry Gen.