Millionaires Threatened.

Hastings Standard, Issue 108, 31 August 1896, Page 4

Millionaires Threatened.

+ Baron Albert Rothschild, bead of the Vienna banking- house, received a letter from Budapest, in which he was called upon to deposit 120,000 florins at a post office in the Hungarian capital, addressed "Work, 1890.'' Should he not do this he was threatened with death by pistol or dagger. The letter was signed " The Vampires of Anarchy," and contained the information that an international Anarchist Club had been founded in Budapest for the purpose of obtaining money from millionaires. Baron Rothschild sent the letter to the Budapest police. Similar letters have been forwarded to them from Temesvar and Orsova, rich merchants in both towns having being threatened in the same way. The writing in each case was the same. A letter was deposited by the police at the post office with the desired address, and a number of detectives kept constant watch. After two days a l*K>tm;tk«.r'- apprentice asked for a letter with tit;- :>d,!r. ss, •• Work, 1896." As he was U-:i\the office with the letter in his pocket the detectives pounced upon him. He confessed, after manf denials, that a soldier had sent him to the post office. . The boy w&s therefore released and told to return to ibis man, being, of course, followed. It, was thus that the writers of the anonymous letters were dis-" covered to be two soldiers of the 32nd infantry regiment. The police communicated with the military authorities, who have taken the case into