Show T FIENDISH PLOT FOILED conspiracy formed to blow up a chicago distillery CHICAGO ill fob feb ll 11 georgo J gibson secretary cc rotary ol 01 tho the groat whisky trust was arrested dt at tho grand pacific hotel at diao this morning oa on a R chargo charge of conspiring to blow up all the distilleries la in tho the country not belonging to tho the trust mr gibson lire lives at peoria illinois and it ie is said that ho he camo came hero here for tho the express purpose of wroL wrecking klaff tho the distillery in this city several attempt attempts havo have boon been mado made to blow up tho the plant la in one of which young kunio of cronin fame wai was involved it la is aid said that mr gibson tried to bribo bribe a government inspector to blow up tho the distillery and this led to his arrest as ho he alighted a carriage carr lago la in front of the grand pacific hotel thi this morning in a email small satchel carried by gibson was found a number of article articles which aro said to bo be evidence ovid enco of his hi connection with the conspiracy mr gibson was taken to the united marshals office in tho the government Rovern ment building at a preliminary bearing hearing before united estates states commissioner hoy no this afternoon mr gibion gibson waived examination andaas and was bold hold to tb 9 0 federal grand jury on ball solicitor hart of the internal revenue dep department artmen who arrived in tho the city from washington yesterday to tako take charge of the case baa has in bli his tho the dynamite with which tho the destruction of tho the 8 huf distillery distl llory was to bo be effected ind paper papers closing tho the contract for ala diabolical business the specific charge against gibion gibson Is 1 that ho he tried to bribo bribe dewar to blow up tho the plant solicitor general A hart mado made the following startling statement this evening A short timo time ago wo we learned that mr air gibson was in correspondence with a gauger T EL 8 dewar I 1 camo came on here and dewar revealed tho the propositions mado made to him by gibson gibson told him that the trust could not got a foothold in chicago as long as the were located here the obnoxious distillery must bo be removed mr gibson had a perfectly safe plan be he said dewar was to get cash and nad later to introduce Intro duco into tho the big spirit tank of the dist distillery Ulery containing thousands thou sanda of gallon gallons of high spirits an infernal machine that was fixed to explode at a certain timo time the explosion would freo free the spirits and throw the distillery into a mass of flames dewar was led to believe that the machine would give him time to got get out of the piece alive but it would not do to lot him live dewar was to be killed by the explosion which was to occar one second after be he dropped the machine into the vat one hundred and fifty people who are at work in the place day and night would have been killed the ta will lose nothing said gibson because their property Is well insured the government O owns Os s most of it dewar kept ua us posted and helped to tn carry the plan to the point as it turned out today to day the trap was to be sprung before sunday gibson bad the infernal machine we have it now in our possession our confidence in the man was never shaken he fairly trembled when be was informed that be never would have hare lived to claim bis his reward our proof I 1 am sorry to say is most absolute tho the chain of evidence aa against ainest mr gibson Is the strongest ever forged the officials at washington are perfectly dazed ove the dastardly nature of the conspiracy 11 |