Three days ago the evening paper bills came out with startling lines about a plot to kill Mr. Chamberlain; but we are getting used to these scare lines now, an are sensible we take them witha salt. Tu this case the story of the plot w: really told in a police court, but in circumstances which cast the gravest doubt on its credibility. Last week, aman named Jung, a well-known Clerkenwell democrat who was closely in touch with foreign revolutionaries, was murdered by " Frenchman and it was this Frenchman who, when charged with the crime at Clerkenwell Police Court, told the story of the plot. He declared that he had killed Jung in self-defence. Jung, he said, had attempted to bribe him to assassinate Mr. Chamberlain, and when he refused had attacked him. The case being sub judice, the newspapers here are, of course, precluded from commenting on the story; but I do not think there is much doubt that when it is investigated it will prove to be a pure invention of the prisoner's, concocted for the purpose of gaining sympathy and clearing himself. Jung, with all his extreme political views, was a man held high estimation by those who knew himn—and they numbered many prominent me from the Continent; but he had a reese, fe was very generous to political refri
able objection to being imposed upon, and the theory of his widow is that a efural on his part to give further assistance to the Frenchman was the cause of the fatal dispute.
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