Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-09-19

Indictment Read.
Furnishes Some Amusing Incidents
For the Spectators Defendants
Not in Court.
Paris, Sept. 19.-The trial of Dereloude
and others charged with conspiring
great interest in France The public
and press galleries are crowded. Not
one of the accused was presnt at the
opening proceedings yesterday. Nine
cells have been fitted up for the prison
ers in the library of the senate.
President Fallieres opened the pro-
ceedings amid general silence by read
ing the degree of the president of the
republic constituting the senate into a
high court to try the charge against the
accused of making an attempt on the
security of the state.
NJ. Fallieres then declared the senate
constituted as a high court. and the
clerk of the court called the roll of sem
ators, who answered with the word
present The leading absentees We're
NJ. Constants, Scheurer-Kestner and
MERCER
Then NJ. Bernard. the procurator gen
eral, began to read the indictment in a
monotonous voice. The indictment
commenced by reciting the facts of the
arrest of NM. Deroulede and Marcel
Habert and said the inquiry had showed
1.-the existence of conspiracy to change
the form of government, to which the
disorders of last February We're due,
and in which NM. Deroulede. Marcel
Habart and some members of the
League of Patriots, NJ. Guerin and some
members of the Anti-Senitic League.
NJ. Du Buc and some members of the
Society of Anti-Semitic Youths, NJ. Buff
fet Godfrey and Chevilly, and members
of the royalist party We're inculpated
All the societies mentioned, since 1898.
it was pointed out, had abandoned cleo
toral action for revolutionary action,
and the League of Patriots openly pur-
sued the object of overthrowing the
constitutional government. Deroulede
and Marcel-H bert seeking to attain
their ends by the union of troops in the
street. The Anti-Semitc League, it was
also claimed. has Joined the insurrec-
ltipnal organization wherewith are asso-
ciated the nationalists. royalists and
| imperialists leagues and the Anti-Sem-
| tic Youths has as mission the propa-
| ganda in the provinces of the revolu-
| tionary movement. NJ. Du Buc. ii was
! further charged, is the link between the
| Anti-Semitic and Patriotic Leagues.
| The Indictment then gave a few par
Iticulars of the provincial organization
referring to the I3oyalist League 1t sait
1T was worthy of attention, because
4 though the idea of a monarchic restora
4 ton appeared inconceivable. it hat
played preponderant role in the re
cent events, its leader being the Duke 0
Orleans himself and its managers hi
i accredited representatives All tn
4 leagues. it was asserted, seek to chang
The form of government by street ris
4 ings
< letter from the Duke of Orleans t.
Il his representative. NJ. Buffet, writer
4 from Marienbad in July. 1896. instruct
4 ing him to commence royalist organiza
tion. was read. and then other secret in
structions, in which it was stipulate'
that the sum TO be spent was not to ex
eee1 100000 francs. The mention of thi
sum evoked laughter.
The Indictment proceeded with re
capitulation of the royalist maneuver
land declared the royalists led and pal
a mob to insult President Loubet on tn
day of his election.
Letters seized at the residence of n
lchevfily showed hat the funds We're be
coming exhausted by February lS9
and promises of money. mostly from Ia
dies. were found in the corresponding
The culmnatory point of the royals
conspiracy was reached February 2
when NJ Deroulede made his notorior
attenlpton the Place de la Nation to j,
duce a brigade of infantry to march c
the Elysee Palace, Everything. it seem
was prepared to carry out the royals
plan that day, but NJ Deroulede's fai
ure spoiled all. and the Duke of Orlean
who was waiting a Brussels the sign
TO come to Paris. received instead te
legraln from NJ. Buffet SAYING @Usele
10 come. Send you further news tolno
row
The Duke of Orleans then wanted
so farther away, and the fact that Il
royalists wished to carry out their Coz
spiraey If possible. was shown in a tie
egram which NJ. Buffet sent him. be
cling him 10 remain, .'as the governme
did not know what TO do with NJ. -
roulede.'
, The Indictment then explained tn
the conspiracy was not abandoned wi
the failure of Feb. % but that the m
chinations continued in secret and pu
lie meetings were continually held.
NM. Deroulede and Marcel-Habert,
July. at St Cloud, and in the Theat
de la Republique. Paris, outlined t
plans still existing for the overthrow
the parliamentary regime by mob
rising, aided by several chiefs OF I
g army and troops on whom they cou
count.
The Indictment evoked frequent OF
bursts of derisive laughter and ironie
4 comment at the expense of the royals
especially on the reading of the vario
kilograms and the failure of the plots
At the conclusion of the reading of t
Indictment, NJ. Falleres ordered
senate to sit behind closed doors.