Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1899-08-17
PLOT IS FRUSTRATED.
Accused of Conspiracy to Overthroye
the Government, Many Prominent
Frenchmen Are Arrested.


IL Paris, Aug. Il IN. Paul Deroulede,
founder of the League of Patriots and
a member of the chamber Of deputies,
for the Angoulenea division of Char
ente. was arrested at four O 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.
MN. Deroulede, chief of the League
Of Patriots, and Marcel-Habert, mem-
Der Of the chamber of deputies, were
arrested on the evening of February
q last ION the. charge of melting sol-
sdiers to insubordination 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 acquitt ted, although dur
ing the proceedings M. Deroulede ad-
mitted he wished to lead brigade to
overthrow the parliamentary republic,
that his action was fully premeditated
and that he would not cease his att
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 leader
Paris, Aug. IA semi-oficial note
issued this morning reads as follows:
"a certain number OF arrests made this
morning as the result of a magisterial in
quiry and by virtue Of article SO of the
penal code regarding conspiracy organ
lied for the purpose Of accomplishing
change in the form of government
'The persons implicated belong to the
groups of the Royalist youth and the Pa
triotic and AnIi-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, 1888,
and of plot to seize the government by
force. The documents leave no room for
doubt, either H. regard to the existence
of the plot or 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-
affair is intrusted to M. Fabre. examining
magistrate. ;"
When an attempt was made to arrest
M. Guerin, president of the Anti
Semitic league, he refused to surrender,
and barricaded himself in mis- house.
He says he is prepared to hold out for
three weeks, having a good stock Of
food and firearms.
The doors nd windows of his resi-
dence are barricaded and NJ. Guerin an
nounces he will blow up his house be-
fore he surrenders.
Paris, Aug. demonstration &C.
Cured Sunday evening outside the of
fees of the Anti-Semite league, where
Jules Guerin, president Of the league,
and Max Regis, the former Jew-baiting
mayor of Algiers, against whom orders
of arrest were issued Saturday on a
charge of conspiring to bring about a
change of government, are still be-
sieged by the police. Fifty anti-semites
took upa position in restaurant oppo-
site, and NJ. Guerin harangued them
from a window. Finally the police
closed the thoroughfare to prevent the
demonstration becoming serious. In
the course of the evening NJ. GODFREY,
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 M. 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.