The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-06-06
A PLOT is CONFESSED.
Sultan OF Sulu Was Pretending Friendship
and Buying Arms
THE PART TAKEN BY CAPTAIN GRIMES
American Consul Aided AGuinnldo 20
Get Rifles aud nu American
Taught Their Use.

New York, June 5.--A dispatch to the
Journal and Advertiser from Hong Kong
says; The sultan of sulu, who was sup
posed to be favorably disposed towards the
United States, It now turns out, has i'm
ported large quantities OF arms from
Singapore via saniaken. with view OF re-
sIsting the Americans These arms he has
stored on the island OF siasl and he is
raising force of sepoys at Singapore. 1t
is believed the decision OF the sultan to
fight the United States is a result OF Pray 5
mission to Singapore in April.
Joseph Henry Grimes has a suit in the
supreme court against Aguinaldo, through
his attorneys, Agoncillo and Lychance, for
SS5 900, which he alleges is one-fourth Of
the profits Of the Abbey expedition, to
which he is entitled.
special from Washington says: Cap
tain Joseph Henry Grimes has made a
complete confession of the part he took in
aiding the Filiplnos and the document Is
/ in the possession Of the government He
! is a British subject, born in Hong Kong
| twenty-nine years ago. He was office
manager at Shanghai for l.. Seltzel & CO..
and there became acquainted with the
agents of the Filipino rebellion. On June
l. Grimes firm contracted with Agoncillo
10 supply 5000 Mauser rifles, two Maxim
guns. 100000 cartridges, the steamer
Pasig and provisions, etc, at cost OF
Sl3S GOO The outfit was seized by the
British authorities at the request OF the
Spanish consul. Then, says Grimes, K.
F. Sylvester. a member OF his Arm, ar
ranged WA DR.. Edward Bedloe, Ameri-
can consh at Cantoa. to send the arms
to that port by means OF a false sale TO
! the Chinese government
/ The Chinese viceroy was TO reject them,
hut as It turned out. he seized $500 and
kept them 10 suppress a rebellion IN MS
own territory. The local authorities, re-
msing permission for the Pasig to SAIL
she was transferred from British to Amer
lean registry BY Consul Bedloe. her name
changed to the Abbey, aud Bedloe cleared
her and the supplies for the Filpinos for
Singapore on August o. the Abbey, fly
ing the American flag and commanded by
Captain G. W Ellis an American citizen,
left Whampoa, fifteen miles from Canton.
on board was Lewis Leonard Etzel, an
American citizen whose mission it was to
teach the Filipnos how to use the Maxim
guns
Sylvester, Grimes asserts, falsely told
him that the facts about the expedition
we're known to Admiral Dewey and Con-
sui General Wildman, The cargo was
taken to Batangas, eighty miles south OF
Manila and turned over to the insurgenJ
governor Of that town. It consisted Of
400 rifles, 100000 cartridges. two Maxim
guns and 1000 rounds OF Maxim ammuni-
ton
After disohlre!ng the cargo, Grimes
went to Blcoor. where he met Agulnaldo,
who saii he wanted more ammunition.
Grimes returned to Hong Kong, but was
nor successful in his further plans SyI-
yester visited Aguinaldo, and Called to
conclude a contract with him to procure
arms ia Germany.
1T viii be seen by the above state
ment, Grimes says. that both Sylvester
and EtzeI plotted on American soil against
the American government"
The Abbey was seized about September
% last by the American revenue cutter
McCull0ch. which was attached to Ad-
m!Ia Dewey's hotilla. Grimes was ar
rested in Manila on November 5.