The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-13
PLAN TO OVERTHROW
REPUBLIC OF FRANCE
Leaders of the Conspiracy Are Arrested By the
Wholesale and Thrown Into Prison.
Paul Deroulede, Founder of the League of Patriots the
First to Be SieZed.

Paris, Aug. I'm. Paul Deroulede,
founder OF the League of Patriots and
a member of the chamber of deputies.
for the Angouleme division of Char
ente. was arrested at o'clock this
morning at his estate at Croissey, near
Paris
4 number of members of the anti
Semitic and Patriotic Leagues We're
also arrested this morning. A semi
official note issued this morning reads
as follows:
"A certain number of arrests made
this morning as the result of magis-
teriai inquiry and by virtue of article
50 of the penal code regarded con-
spiracy organized for the purpose of
accomplishing a change in the form of
government. The persons implicated
belong TO the groups of the royalist
youth and the patriotic and anti-Se-
mite leaves.
AT the trial of the Neully barrack
affair, facts relating TO that incident
alone We're used as the basis of the
prosecution, but searches We're then
made and documents were seized which
led to the discovery of an organization
dating back to July 1895, and of q
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 proof was OBJ
tanned that the same groups were pre-
pairing for a fresh attempt d t an early
date, the proof being such as to enable
the disturbances to be aVerted by i'm
mediate measures. The investigation
of the affair is instructed TO NJ. Fabre,
examining magistrate
More Arrests Expected
NJ. de Roulede was taken into Gus
tody by four gen darmes and was
driven to Paris. On his arrival here he
was incarcerated in the Conciergerie
prison. The arrest of NJ. Marcel Ha-
bert is expected. The police have closed
the offices of the Patriotic League,
which are now guarded by gen darmes.
When an attempt was made to ar
rest NJ. Guerin, president of the anti
Semitic League, he refused to surren-
der and barricaded himself in his house
He says he is prepared to hold out for
three weeks, having a good stock of
food and firearms. The doors and win
tlows of his residence are barricaded
and NJ. Guerin announces he will blow
up his house before he surrenders.
On the application Of NJ. Fabre, fresh
searches OF various houses were made
this morning, including the headquar-
tiers of the anti-Semites. where only I'M
papers were SelZtu- "A Ilul1l-
her of additional arrests of unknown
persons have been made in connection
with the conspiracy.
The Conspiracy Leader.
NJ De Roulede. chief of the League
of Patriots, and Marcel-Habert,
member of the chamber of deputies,
were arrested on the evening of Feb.
% last on the charge of melting SOL
ders to INSTRUMENTATION in connection
with the election of President Loubet.
on May 81 the prisoners, who had
been on trial before the assiZe court
in Paris. were acquitted, although dur
ing the proceedings NJ de Roulede adj
mitted he wished to lead a 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 except the allegation that
he wanted to lead the soldiers astraN
without a leader. He said:
Il wanted a general at their head. /
would have preferred the commander
in-chief. Unhappily. l had no choice
He finished his harangue by asking a
plebisciary republic, asserting at the
same time that he never intended TO
turn the soldiers from their duty, but
only wished 10 carry General Roget.
who was in command of the troops.
with him.
NJ. Marcel Habert also admitted that
he wished to cause a revolution, but