PRINCE BISMARCK'S DANGER.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1961, 17 April 1875, Page 3

PRINCE BISMARCK'S DANGER.

yTko following de/patohes from The ' Times'* correspondent at Paris and Berlin, relate tO:#^j?pc>sed plot for the ajsassination, '■'.. of P(incei Bismarck : ~ "Paris, December |2nd. The North Germaa Gazette gljea an account of a J lot for the assassination of Prince jismarck, the particulars of which have been kept / secret for fifteen months. In September, 1873, a "French H^^^^shoptt^tfve^an anonymous letter world of a monster beautiful France to was exhibiting tin-, against Catholicism./ to effect his purpos^ f'ho year if the arcyV\4O,QOOf ip insure Jrtis iron a^ain^t want, md. if. In cpder noj' to Ciiplier, aud't>ouuwhen replyiW, to tb.ip envelope/) from letter answer, enclosed his \ photograph/ ami disclosed his name and address —' Duehense Poncelet, Leopold, Seraingi' -The very] properly communicated the letters to the J French Government, who lost no time in j ) informing Prince Bismarck. The Belgian police made inquiries, and/found that Poncelet was a mechanic, of irreproachable; habits,' respectabtyMconnected, a regular attendant at massand confession, in good circumstances,/iind of average education. In the 'first half of 1873 he, was employed at .A^x-la-chapelle, and specimens of his hand-wiitmg correspond with the two .tetters^ The "photographs, however, were not his 6w,n, but*that of a former, fellow-workman* named Gaudy, "then- luting -afrliilfe/ *Iwr ial suspectedof bging an to" the plot.; The "archbishop fmeanwhile received: another lettef^jn/- cipher, ■ pressing" for, an«nswer ozitherground that there wa*' to time toJoseii/Pbncefcfc was thereupon watched, land'^pacl© -preparations as for a, Tlsit to Germany ; but' a. comrade in t^tha^ conntf^,' to whom the 'iiix-la-chapoEs policy had appiirently put incautious ■quef^iphs, sent- himiford that it wouldjb? dangerous -for ""hijpa^to oross the frontier,^ac^ib^ abandonecßhe journey. What MS/fince becomeii.of^liim is not atatef^f^^^ette simply remarking that the rj^^Jg^nOft divulgiig the affair ." hsm,/^^ol j£t&^existi—B:irli£ December ?of—jjs\e r: B^lih^police Jhale cautioned i^ofito!: continue going Kjut alone-jlri^n;; : lp^t:,iß»."».. his wont, discloiiurls respecting "•^o'-'p)^ ; ':<>ff-IJit*a lifl'fntah^Tassaßsins. do iL^^pl^^*^^^ h^- -tPa'*.:- is known BjNj-he police*" ' ' * ]