THREATENED WITH DEATH.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 189, 30 December 1912, Page 7

THREATENED WITH DEATH.

AMERICA'S NEW PRESIDENT. MENACED BY MOUNTAIN BANDITS. London, December 12. A sensational story comes from New York of an assassination plot of which Dr. Woodrow Wilson was the intended victim. The facts have just transpired with the arrest of the three men hv whom the life of the new President was threatened.

These men, who were apprehended at Dover. New Jersey, sent a letter to Dr. Wilson demanding payment of £IOOO in gold, on pain of death.

The ruffians had written to Dr. Wilson on more than half-a-dozen occasions, declaring that if he failed to satisfy their demands he would assuredly share the fate of President McKinley, who was shot at the Buffalo Exhibition in 1901.

All the letters, of course, were handed to the police authorities. The latter had a pretty good idea of the source fioin which the threats had emanated' and with this information to go upon the officers to whom was entrusted the task of running down the would-be assassins had little difficulty in getting on their tracks. The men were traced to the New Jersey highland, where they were surprised and captured niter a desperate encounter, the fellows offering a most savage resistance. Wlu n. their mountain abode was searched it was found to be packed with guns, for which, of course, there was an adequate supply of ammunition.