The true northerner., 1899-08-16
PLOT IS FRUSTRATED.
Accused Of Conspirscy 10 Overthrow
the Government. Many Prominent
Frenchmen Are Arrested.

Paris, Aug. 14.-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 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.
NM. Deroulede, chief of the League
of Patriots, and Marcel-Habert, MEM
ber of the chamber of deputies, were
arrested on the evening of February
23 last on the charge of melting sol-
diers to characterization 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. Deroulede ad-
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 astray
without a leader.
Paris, Aug. IA 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 SO Of the
penal code regarding conspiracy organ
ized for the purpose of accomplishing
change in the form of government
m belong
groups Of the Royalist youth and the Pa
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, 1898,
and of a 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 a fresh attempt at an early
| 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 Nj. Fabre, examining
magistrate"
When an attempt was made to arrest
NJ. 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 for
three weeks, having a good stock of
! food and firearms.
The doors and windows of his resi-
| dence are barricaded and M. Guerin an
nounces he will blow up his house be-
! fore he surrenders.
Paris, Aug. 14.-Demonstrations 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 Jewbaiting
mayor of Algiers, against whom orders
/ of arrest were issued Saturday on
! charge of conspiring to bring about a
change of government, are still be-
sieged by the police. Fifty anti-semites
took up position in a restaurant oppo-
! site, and NJ. Guerin harangued them
from a window. Finally the police
closed the thoroughfare 10 prevent the
! demonstration becoming serious. In
! the course of the evening NJ. Godefrey,
president of the committee of the Jeu-
! 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 25 have been executed.
Those already arrested include Comte
! De Sabran Ponteves, Comte Chevilly. NJ.
De Monicourt, secretary of the Jeu-
nesse royalists, and M. De Frechen-
court, vice president of the Oeillet
Blanc, or White Carnation society.