Show Spl Cable to the N Y Globe Copy right 189 Cordova July 9A sensation was caused here today by the arrest of Gen Hernando Bosenko charged by President Cuzco with attempting a reV lution The city is wild with excitement excite-ment ceed The revolution will not suc ceedI seems that Saturday night General Bosenko received a cablegram from his New York agent Hosea Boggs as follows fol-lows Shipped by steamer Barcelona 5000 rifles 1000 revolvers 100 cannon rifled 75 good sol iers 1000000 cartridges Government will revolutionists Gvernment wI recognize ists Monroe doctrine goes This cablegram was lying on Gen Bosenkos desk when your correspondent correspond-ent called Sunday morning The general gen-eral was out Your correspondent saw it was important a it was in cipher Fortunately the key was in one of the generals pigeonholes they are very careless down here and your correspondent corres-pondent soon deciphered the message though there were many mistakes evidently evi-dently in transmission With the Globes usual enterprise President Cuzco was informed and last night Bosenko was lodged in jail The United States was wired through the San Casturaguan minister at Washington t arrest Hoses Boggs who it will be remembered was a part ner in the deviltry that old Flamingo was concerned in which came out at his death Reports from New York show that Bog ha been spending a large amount of money and talking myster Lt r ii iously when in his cups I is known that Bosenko was in New York in May The government has made every preparation to seize the Barcelona when i arrives and the revolution will be put down without trouble I is feared that many prominent men are involve Bosenko says it is all a mistake mis-take and he can prove his innocence THOMAS WALLING Then followed this local item Hosea Boggs is well known in this city He w formerly a newspaperman newspaper-man but left that business for trade Since Flamingos death he has been doing little apparently though recently recent-ly as the above dispatch relates he has been spending money freely Yesterday Yes-terday his office was closed not even an office boy being there I is believed be-lieved that he got a tip from Bosenko and has left the country I nearly fainted I couldnt be true I read It again and again but all I could make of it was that Tommy Walling Wal-ling was trying to throw me down again I resolved to go straight to my office and write a letter to the Globe demanding a retraction My message was not in cipher and I could prove that it wasnt so I felt sure of making a good case of i but resolved to drop Bosenko forever On arriving at my office I found a lot of newspaper men and two dignified digni-fied strangers who demanded to see me privately at once I told the boys that I would see them later that it was all right and asked the strangers in One was the San Castaruguan consul at New York and the other was a United Uni-ted States deputy marshal In a few words explained that the dispatch was a lie but they did not seem convinced con-vinced whereupon I handed them the original cablegram which I had written writ-ten and fortunately preserved They studied it for some time and finally the marshal said I would be much more satisfactory Mr Boggs to see the one you sent away Can you send for it to the telegraph tel-egraph office Certainly said I ringing a messenger mes-senger call and writing a note to the superintendent asking for the message on file This seemed to satisfy the two men and I told them that in the meantime I would write out a statement for the newspaper men who were waiting They agreed and I went to the typewriter type-writer and began lam a good operator opera-tor and seldom look at my copy while writing but I was very nervous I started out to explain the situation Having written three lines I turned up the cylinder to look at i and my hair stood on end Here is what it read afr frtm bm htb htbrd B dadtilyll mhagod kowlhtdlau cmfwtya yaf tmeroian paomt ctamowoytaow famb tgadow fawoltw acmfwy uaytft bfg voo sihaf llnyaouof I rubbed my hand across my brow pulled out the sheet tore it up and put in another This time I went more slowly I could not see how I had been so nervous a to make so many mistakes mIs-takes After three lines I looked again andgreat heavens there it was acain Ny garf daoftmtb htbetmtf daw har iaofamtbtham raffhshrdlu up meahw yalow tmemhtar baomo Txam kI htmahtdawk fabt Upid fw mth voos notpUt amv I began o think I had gone insane and the consul and marshal looked at me suspiciously I made a third attempt at-tempt with the same result and was about to say I was U when an official from the telegraph office entered with my cablegram saying we could look at It in his presence but the company must keep possession of i There it is I shouted that will show my innocence I only shipped some provisions to Bosenko who is a merchant The consul took It read i frowned and handed it to the marshal who did the same and looked at me saying I am sorry Mr Boggs but this is bad business I grabbed the message and read to my horror Bosenko Cordova Doaarf nu drsrt Nstvr pms 5000g pit 1000 vjrrdrd 1000 rdd aptl 25 vsdrd nodvjy 1000000 jstf ysvl Nohhrtdysgg etat ftse pm dohgfyjy Rbtahrdtia raoif amtmepp Jpdrs Nphhd Did you write that message asked the consul I did not I said choking with race Is that your signature on the back asked the marshal Sure enough it was but could have swore I had not written it Does anyone else in this country I use the cipher asked the consul No sir I replied and I did not use i on this occasion I do not think it is anything at all The fact is I was excited when I wrote i and probably hit the wrong key on the typewriter The address I admit is in my handwriting hand-writing I wrote it with a pen before using the typewriter You see its all a horrid mistake Let us have your key then said the consul and see if It fits I handed it to him and in a few minutes min-utes he said Mr Boggs it is useless to play this double game any longer Though there are some errors I is easy enough to translate This message is exactly the one published in the Globe this morning morn-ing Mr Marshal I am sorry but you must execute that warrant and hold Mr Boggs for trial I is useless to tel how I expostulated expostu-lated swore pleaded and explained The damning evidence was against me and all they would allow me was time to write out the statement for the press which I had commenced A fourth time I began it and agoim the letters came all wrong I was fairly dozed Finally an idea seized me I picked up my cablegram I had origin aiiy written and read it Strangely enough ic come out in the cipher just as I had sent it t the telegraph office I showed it to the consul in triumph There I said it is the machines fault Someone has tampered with my machine and it writes cipher instead of English SeeThe See-The didnt see at first but when I showed how it worked the consul showe i Dked te remarked re-marked Very Ingenious Mr Bosrgs but you are a fool to have changed the letters on your machine so a to write a cipher Its a clean give away But I didnt do it I cried some enemy has done this to ruin me Nonsense sold the marshal do you suppose anyone could accidentally misplace the lines in that machine o fit ynur cipher Do you remember that example in permutations in the arithmetic arith-metic about the number of was in which the letters of the alphabet can be placed Why theres trillions of billions of ways and no one could do it but yourself Come along and we will se about bal Bitterly did I curse the cay thq t Teen T-een set eyes ore Bosenko I was held in 25000 bal for court I ser to H < > different selling agents o arms with whom I had dealt but they nfl indignantly indig-nantly denied any knowledge o me They were afraid of big coht In the game So I staid in jail but was saiMsfied that as soon a the Barcelona reached Cordova with the provisions I would be released UnfortvatMT t Barcelona went down with all on board off Cape Haititeras and I should prooa bly have been sent to the penitentiary Cor years had not Genera Moreno suddenly sud-denly recovered from the gout descended de-scended on Cordova and carried ou a I successful revoluon Bosenko was released but exiled1 at the demand o the syndicate and his property confiscated confis-cated After long negotiation I was released three weeks before Cuzcos last successful counterrevolution But my money is now gone I am broken in reputation and am an outcast out-cast I have at 1t however solved the whoCe mystery On the day I discharged dis-charged my office boy he performed the deed that undid me He has confessed the whole story under my threat o prosecuting him though I dont know what I could prosecute him fo I seems that enraged over his discharge j d < he resolved to dt me as much mischief as he could and looked around tor a I I opportunity Finally he lighted on the typewriter as the best object and from pure malice decided o change some of the letters so a to annoy me He was familiar enough with the machine to do this with a few tools he borrowed bor-rowed from a neighboring office on the plea thait he wanted to repace some battered letters First he exchanged a for z Then he exchanged b I for m This was about all he had intended to do but seeing that it was easy he concluded to change them all which he did with the exception of the figures and odd characters He claims that he did thIs in hit or miss fash twt ion without any idea of my cipher which he had never seen and which had never left my possession Nevertheless Never-theless the changes he made did exactly ex-actly fit the cipher with a few trifling exceptions which Walling had noted but which were easily adjusted to trans hating That he should have accomplished accom-plished this may seem beyond belief but I can only point to the above official of-ficial records for proof When I think that I might now be a major general and secretary of the treasury of Castaragua worth 1000 00 at least i makes my blood boil to know I was kept out of it all by an accident that might happen only once in a billion decillion times I am getting 6 a week as barker for a second hand clothing store on the Bowery waiting for another accident to land me on velvet again but the waiting is tiresome and the chances seem much against me I have written this truthful narrative narra-tive in justice to myself to prove that I am an innocent man who has suffered suf-fered from a tragedy in permutations I am sure no one can doubt it |