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Arthur was arrested in 1882, to be put on trial as a British agent provocateur stirring up further insurrection.

His journalistic sources were not acceptable friendships to the authorities.

He spent six weeks in prison awaiting trial, but at the trial nothing definitive could be proved.

His wife was interrogated.

She found most offensive the reading of her love letters before her eyes by a hostile police agent.

Arthur was expelled from the country.

Gladstone had been appraised of the situation immediately, but, as far as the public knew, did nothing.

The government in Vienna similarly disavowed any knowledge of or connection to the actions of the local authorities.

Whatever deal may have been struck remains unknown, at least to the public.

The Evans ' returned home to rent a house in Oxford, abandoning their villa, which was turned into a hotel.

However, Arthur's reputation among the Slavs assumed unassailable proportions.

He was invited later to play a role in the formation of the pre-Yugoslav state.

In 1941 the government of Yugoslavia sent representatives to his funeral.