The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1900-08-24
MCKINLEY IN DANGER.
L Number Of Anarchiass Charged with
Being In . Conspiracy TO Assassinate
tho President

New York, Aug. 20.-The Evening
World Saturday prints the following
relative to the news received from
Washington Friday of the detention
at the barge Office in this city by Sc
cret service agents of Notable Maresca
and Michil Weida, supposed anarchists
who arrived yesterday on the Kaiser
Wilhelm III. These two men are I'M
derstood to have come to this cOun-
try as conspirators whose object it
Is alleged was the assassination of
President Mckinley. The Evening
World says:
Instead of two, high government Off
cial informed the Evening World that
there were IA anarchists under arrest at
the detention prison of the bureau of
immigration. They are all charged with
being in a conspiracy to assassinate
President Mckinley and have been arriv-
ing singly and in pairs from incoming
ocean liners within the last ten days.
United States secret service agents
learn that an anarchist circle in Naples
had cast lots to determine who should
be the assassin. Eleven Italians and
three Austrians were selected. Closely
followed, they sailed for different ports.
Their object was to strike individual
blows at the president at the same time.
They would make success sure.
AS fast as the men arrived, secret SER
vice agents disguised as emigrants. went
among them and they were arrested.
Maresca and Weida. caught yesterday,
were the two Of four.
The conspiracy was made on night
early in August. The men selected for
the work in this country were quickly
notified what they were to do. separated,
going singly or in pairs to different ports
in Europe. Some went to France, others
to Germany, while still others crossed
the channel to England. Step by step
they were followed to the gang plank Of
steamers.
, The fourteen are now detained by the
emigration authorities and are either at
the barge office at the battery or the
detention quarters at quarantine.
One report is to the effect that some
are in the Ludlow street JAIL having been
taken there from Ellis island in order to
thwart any attempt to rescue them by
Paterson anarchists.
So far as known, according to the
Evening World, the plan was for each
man to proceed to Washington at once
on a certain day. They were to sur
round the president and await an OPP
portunity to strike. The blow was to
be by a pistol and knife. One of the
NUMBER IL was certain would De Sue
cessful. The question of escape was
not considered, the men being willing
to sacrifice their lives for their prin-
ciples. The two men who did not
meet their fellow-anarchists were
Maresca and Weida. Chief Will1ie, of
the secret service division of the treas
ury department. had his agents at the
pier when the steamer locked. The
two men did not come in the steerage
as did the others. Maresca came as
a steward in the steerage and Weida
as Il coal passe-.
Ma esa Fanatical Anarchist.
london, Aug. 20.-The Rome CORE
spondent of the Daily Mail says:
"Thc arrest of Maresca and Guida in
New York arose out of some letters
received at Bresci's lodgings subse-
quent to the assassination of King
Humbert. One of these, dated New
York. July Is. and signed 'Mabor.'
urged Bresci to commit the crime,
urging that Maresca and Gui1a would
do their duty toward President Nc
Kinley. Maresca is known to the
Italian police as most fanatical an
archiSf