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Show SCOFFS AT M'KINLEY PLOT" B. B. ODELL LAUGHS AT ALLEGED ALLEG-ED CONSPIRACY TO KILL. Says the Story Originated in "Either a Crank or a Munchausen" and Was Trifling Matter. Newburgh, N. Y., July 11. Chairman B. B. Odell of the Republican state committee said today concerning the alleged plot to assassinate President McK!n!ey: "I read the account in a newspaper this morning with reference to an alleged al-leged plot to assassinate President Mc-Kinlev, Mc-Kinlev, and also as to the part which I am suonosed to have taken in the matter. "I have nothing to say upon the subject, sub-ject, except that I have made an investigation, inves-tigation, which I started with the state committee detective on the line of what I supposed to be political information, and I discovered either a crank or a Baron Munchausen, and on the principle prin-ciple that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, it is probable i that my report to Secretary Dick is the cause for the extra care now being taken of the president. "I have nothing further to say upon this subject except that I regret -that some one has been indiscreet enough to make of a trifling matter the gigantic plot exposed in the papers. |