The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-05-22
AUSTRIA RESENTS
BRITISH INQUIRY
Sensational Army Poisoning
Mystery Is Searched Out
and Solved.
BY EMIL ANDRAssy.
Special Cable to The Tribune


VIENNA, May 21.-Eneland had better
attend TO her own business. That is
the attitude of the yiennese nress and
unoffcially of tho Austro-IIuugarian
government towards the more or less
anxious Inquiries which arc being made
IN London as TO Austria's naval pro
sralnne and the suggestions that hcr
new Dreadnoughts arc really beinr
bullded for Germany.
The disposition IS to regard the Eng
iish attltude as closely bordering on the
The general feeling is that Austria has
preclsely the same right 10 build Dread :
nouShts as Germany, Russia Italy and
occasion for England 10 assume In this
iact any hostile intention on the part
of Austria
In a leader recently tho Neue FreIe
Presse dwells upon the necessIty for
the maj intenanco of confidential relations
between Vienna and London. and re-
marks that great praise is due to Sir
Fairfax Cartwright. who has rescued
English policy from tho deep embarrass-
ment into which IL had fallen Then
follows Violent attack upon Great
Britain:
'It IS childish to attempt to place
our Dreadnoughts under German COM
Inand, and u is mere nonsense to invent
the fable OF the common navy Of the
triple alliance. The Dreadnought scourgc
is devastating Austria only because Eng
land has let loose this deccitful vampire
which sucks the blood OF the nations. For
this reason alone are Dreadnoughts built.
England has, by her recent inventions.
turned nearly all the navies OF the world
into old iron and rendered them useless
for warfare, and therefore Dreadnoughts
are being laid down"
AS matter of fact. there iB little love
for Great Britain here. IT is felt that
the recent trouble between Russia over
the Bosnts- Herzegovina coup was large
~ due TO British intrigue.
Army Poisoning Mystery.
The clearing up of the sensa tional
sion OF the accused officer Lieutenant
Adolf Hofrichter, has caused general
feeling OF relief.
richter has just confessed Is among the
most remarkable III the annals OF crini-
nology. In the late autumn OF last year
a large number OF officers attached tc
the general staff of the army at Vienna
received packages containing small boxes
OF pills. accompanied by circulars, bear
ing a name which was later discovered
TO be spurious. praisinG tho virtues oi
these specifics for the treatment OF va
rious ailments. Most OF the gentlemen
thus favored paid no attention 10 whai
was supposed TO be merely the methods
adopted by some enterprisins firm oi
Unfortunately however, one officer
Captain Nader Of the staff. thought
that he might as well experiment or
QlmSeI, ana dCcOTOinBiN le lOOh Sp'iiS
of the pills. He was almost Immediately
seized with illness, and. despite all ef-
| forts to save him. he expired. This rata
occurrence aroused suspicion, the pills
were analy2ed and II was discovered
that their principal ingredient was III,
terribly poisonous drug called cyanide
| of potassium. which belongs 10 the same
| chemical family as prussic acid
| An Investigation was at once set OF
| foot and various circumstances even
! tuaIly led TO the arrest OF Licutonan
| Hofrichter, who was placed in jail a
| the close OF November Further inquiries
showed that ne had bought number o.
| piIl boxes exactly similar 70 those IL
| which the fatal pills were enclosed, aTc
/ some were actually found at his resi-
dence Al the same time the authorize!
| were not able TO trace the purchase o.
| the cyanide of potassium. which, now
| ever. might easily have been in the lieu
| tenants possession for some time. az
| he was AN amateur photographer; ant
would have no difficulty In obtaining
supply Of cyanide. which Is used In va
rlous Photographic processes. From IN
| time Of his arrest down 10 his suddei
and dramatic confession. Lieutcnah
| Hofrichtcr had persisted in rnaintainini
| his innocence. and Austria was divided
| into two camps the one comprising
those who believed Hofrichter guilty anr
| those who did not.