Delaware gazette and state journal., 1902-11-20
Sew York Times, yesterday.

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Methodist Episcopal Church Of Ho-
boken on Thursday last listened to an
astonishing tale told by one Of their
number, who asserted that three orders
rad been issued by anarchists to kill
President Roosevelt and that the three
men chosen to commit the crime were
lead, two by their own hand and the
;hird by presumptiye accident. The
story was in the nature of confession,
and was made in a moment of religious
fervor and revealed to others facts
which before that day had been known
only to the woman who told the story,
her husbard, Rev. Charles L. Meade,
the pastor of the church, and two
Secret Service detectives, the last four
named having come into possession OF
the facts within two years.
aS After the confession had been made
&oublicly to the club members effort Is
Fwere made to keep tho matter secret,
out gradually moro or less of the truth
4 leaked out, and the woman finally be-
ing located consented, with the ap-
proval of her husband, to retell the
atory for publication.
The woman is Mrs. Lena Dexheimer.
She is about 40 years of age. She was
an anarchist and associated with an
archists in this city. For over a year
her life, she says, and several times
the family has been forced to move.
For months they have received their
i mail at the general delivery window
Ii of the Hoboken postoffice, lest through
a carrier their address might become
known to those whom they claim to
have cause to fear. They are living
in a tenement house, and the detectives,
who hare known of the matter for
some time past, keep more or less
strict watch over the family to guard
them against annoyance.
As girl, Mrs. Dexheimer says, she
became imbued with the IDEAS of peace
full socialism, and was socialist when
she came to this country, 20 years ago.
When she came here she associated
with persons who hold similar views,
and formed then the acquaintance of
Emma Goldman, then a young woman
with ideas no more rabid than
socialism. 1t was about 1885 or 1886,
Mrs. Dexheimer thinks, that Emma
Goldman took a trip to Europe, and
when she returned she had changed her
belief and began to preach the anarchist
doctrines as they had been taught
TO her in Europe. Through her
Mrs Dexheimer became converted to
anarchism.
She says the followers of anarchy are
much stronger in this country than the
authorities believe, that some of them
are wealthy and own houses, and that
Il it will be almost impossible to root out
the dangerous circles which exist all
4. over the country. There are 100 or
j more meeting places in Manhattan
4 alone She knows Of but two in Brook
lyn. There are several in Jersey City,
Newark and Paterson, and some in
T.. IL
belief has even stronger foothold
! than in the East, judging from the
I glowing report ssnt to New York from
) time TO time from tho leaders in that
section of tho country. The group to
4 which Mrs. Daxheimer belonged for a
i long time met at Litania Hall, Six
d teenth street, Manhattan.
4 Three years ago last May Mrs. Dex-
,eimer and her family moved to
q Ioboken. Her husband had never been
associated with the anarchists and
,d ieyer knew the real object of the
d society to which his wife belonged. He
Y aad always been member of the
Methodist Church. having never tagged
IN his attendance from his Sunday
school days to the present. He says
that he knew his wife was not a be-
lever in Christ, and his constant
prayer was that she be converted.
Something over TWO years ago he in
duoed her to attend service at the
First Methodist Church of Hoboken,
with which he hEa affiliated himself
and his three cbllareu as soon as be
moved to Hoboken. The first visit led
to others, and on January 9th, 1900,
1 Mrs. Dexheimer was aaptiGed by Rev.
Mr.. Meade.
OF things she learned .1afore her con.
version TO aChristiRnity, hlrs. Dex.
heimer is loath to talk, but she says
that for a long tinis, in Iacr, until
within few weeks. her conversion dio
iot become generally known to hei
!ormer associates and see learned much
,f their plans and actions, although
not attending she meetings
OF the plans to kill President Roose
yelt, she says the first she knows ol
was made perhaps a year ago. The
IRA wing of lots resulted in the task
falling upon young Frenchman named
Mellow. He arrived in this country
from England about Christmas, and
she was one of those who met him.
She had long talks with him afterwarc
and tried to dissuade him from carry
ing out the mandate to kill. He al
first threatened to denounce her, but
ended by listening to her appeals. HI
finally told her what she already knew
that his lI1e vas already forfeited
II he killad the President he would b,
executed. If he refused OF failed i
was death by suicide or at the hand
of the order.
He had much personal pride, and die
not want his family to know he was
suicide, and did not want to be BRANDED
as traitor and be executed by his as
eociates. He finally consented to re
turn to France, and it was arranged
that if he sa death was inevitable b,
would kill himself in such manner
that it would be considered an acoiden
by all wAp did not know. He wen
I, back, snt some weeks later was killeC
on the streets of Paris, apparently b.
n accident. but really, Mrs. Dexheimei
n says, by his own choice.
She was next told that Mellow hav
ing fatiai, new lottery had beer
ii drawn. This tire man named Mulle
n or Mueller, living on Avenue B, 143
las or 14T, which Mrs. Dexheimer ii
N not certain, had been chosen. A few
i days later this man was found deaf
4 l from poison self administered.
Sl Again the lottery, and this time
| woman named Schroeder living il
Harlem vas chosen, and she also endes
her life by poison.
This occurred about the time tha
I her former associates became wary in
telling her OF their dcings. She hat
II tbeen inventing excuses for failure t.
u attend the meetings. After suspicion
"a ell on her, Mrs. DexheimeT says sh
N vas abandoned by men and womei