The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-02-10
PLOT TO MURDER
QUEEN vICT 0RIA.
Pulitzer Refused to Attend 5oth
Celebration OF Sovercign's
Reign.
STORY JUST MADE PUBLIC
Royal Family of Belgium Refuse
to Pay Surgeon for Operat-
ing on Late King.
STORY JUST MADE PUBLIC
my IA MARau1sE DE roNrENoy.)

(DY ia MARQU1sE DE EONTtINOro
WJllEN in 1887 Joseph Pulitzer, the
N/ owner Of the New York World,
Wv declined at the last moment to
avail himself Of the two tickets
placed at his disposal by the late Sir
phillp Cunliffe-Owen, for seats IN
Westminster Abbey to, witness the
great religious pageant there in honor
OF the tiftietll anniversary Of the access
sion OF Queen Victoria, on the ground
with danger there was a disposition
among those cognizant of the trcmen-
dous demand for these tickets 70 attri-
butte his approximations to his imagina-
published in the. number, Of BLACK.
woods Magazine for the current
month, by Sir Robert Anderson. .who
was for 50 manv years the head of the
of the secret police service Of the Eng
l'sh government. it Is shown Tor the
first time that the apprerensions of the
owner of the New Sorli World were
an inklins of tho knowledge pos
scsscd bv Sir Robert. Assistant COM
missioner of Police Monro and super
intcndent Williamson.
! In Sir Roberts own words there was
"a hellish plot to bring about dyIa-
into explosion in Westminster. AbboS
DURING the historic ceremony of Queen
| Nietoria's jubilee. and ono OF the two
principal agents in that plot was for
tunltclv bought over by us at a con-
siderable pricc.'" Through this agent
| his principal associate III the con-
apirncy rs quietly cllminated-that
I! lis to say. locked III 81. the continent
!unler a specious prctcSt. the CONT
[ mental police being a.wavs ready to
accommodate their foreign contreres
( IN such matters as tnesc' oSpeciaily
| where plots of an anarchist character
4 arc concerned.
nate agents in the afaii. and the 20
lice We're unable to trace them. I've
| dnncer was. lest finding they were De,
serted by their two chiefs they should
uc:. on their owa account The hoDe
was that If left to themselves they
would remain inactive Ihis hope was
| fulflled. and the Tears fdlsiiied. But
| it was not until the ceremony was over
tia. Queen Victoria lad safely re-
| tu:.eu fro,r Westminster Abbey to
Buckingham Palace. and that the sa-
cred cdi,ice had hcer cleared OF ne
witnesses of the ceremony. that Sif
| Tnber, Anderson. Commissioner Monro
and Superintendent Williamson were
able to breathe easily, and to feel that
| the peril was really ever.
4 Sir Robert is one Of the most cele-
b:ated criminologsts and authorities
on police work in Europe. and IS eH.
cced;ngly cautious ana soher IN ms
statern- The charges which II:
makes in comedian with the existence
OF this conspiracy by the Clan-na Gao
land Fenian movements. to perpetual
a dynamite outrage while Queen VIC
toria's golden jubilee service, was II
] progress and the venerable fan'
crowded with rulers and royal person,
ages from every country in the world
ana with the greatest dtgnitarles 0
the realm, cannot be treated as
mere IRRESPONSIBLE assertion by Il mal
Of 10 consequence or position. Tn
story is an interesting one, ana De
serves further calculation and con
sGcration.
$4,000 Surgeons Fec.