Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1900 — BOER PLOT IS FOUND. [ARTICLE]

BOER PLOT IS FOUND.

Discovery of n Fcheme to Make Lord Roberts a Prisoner. A plot to seize General Roberts and to shoot as many as possible of the British officers in Pretoria wns discovered, and ten men charged with complicity arrested. Everything was prepared in the plot to make Lord Roberts a prisoner and shoot the British officers and the conspiracy was only discovered at the last moment. The conspirators numbered about fifteen. They had planned to set tire to the houses in the extreme western part of the city, hoping that the troops would be concentrated there. The plan was that then the conspirators were forcibly to enter all houses occupied by British officers, these having been previously marked, and to kill the occupants. All the Boer sympathizers were acquainted with the plot and several had been told off to secure the person of Lord Roberts and to hurry with him to ths nearest commando. Horses had been obtained for fhis purpose. Then the British learned the names of the who were put under arrest. This plot is rtMCnrdcd as pnrt of ths conspiracy, of which the recent Johannesburg rising wns the first indication. The plot included a number of the to winpeople, who were in communication with the enemy. General De Wet, the Boer commander, who, according to the English correspondents, was certain to l»o captured by tha British, who had thrown nn unbreakable cordon around him, has succeeded la crossing the Vaal River, and, according to the report? a large part of his force have made good their escape and reached Bnffel's If iek.