A RUSSIAN CONSPIRACY.

Evening Post, Volume XLIII, Issue 61, 12 March 1892, Page 1 (Supplement)

A RUSSIAN CONSPIRACY.

It ia reported from St. Petersburg "that the Central Committee of Nihilists" there declares that the conspiracy recently mentioned was not the work of St. Petereburgh Nihilists, but, as was plain from certain circumstances, was an affair of the Socialists. Of this plot and its discovery (saya a Berlin correspondent) I have received the following details: — In that part of St. Petersburgh where tho workmen were arrested there are several low-class eating-houses close together. In one of them the members of "the society for saving and lending money" met twice a month every other Saturday evening. The name I have just quoted was, however, chosen only in order to deceive the police as to the character and object of the meetings, which was really to prepare the plot. The preparations had already reached a rather advanced stage, when several women, including the wife of a teacher of drawing, were admitted. The latter always arrived very late, and completely muffled up. The proprietress of the nearest eating house, actuated by trade jealousy, told the police that she believed orgies were being carried on upon her neighbours premises, for every second Saturday evening she had seen women entering the place. At the next meeting the police appeared and arrested all persons present, 22 in number, including the owner of the eating-house, her sister, and a. third woman.