The New York herald., 1873-12-03

they should be taken havana for trial. but three
hours aiseI s9nrise shey were all taken OUTSIDE o
excitement at the time, but as it was imprlson
ment 70 speak OF u, 10 was soon hushed mp.
Ine iaInines OF those men thus shot were placed
on trial ior the acts OF the heads Of those amlies
and as result their property was conscated, they
were declared paupers and at the same time. tue
popuiace was forbidden, under pain OF tmprlsOn-
ment. TO render any Of them any assistance. Thus.
being deprived OF home and shelter, food and the
means oi obaining IL, forbidden TO leave the Jurs-
dictfon OF santiago de Cuba these poor. HELPLESS
creatures sought shelter in the woods near here
and became one common family.
But the lnhumanties, crueltles and barbaritleS
when these women and children have been sub
Jected TO passed the belief OF civilized being.
could not describe what have seen and been un-
able 10 prevent All rObberes are laid to their
door. and even supposed robberies were gotten
up, so that the chase OF the bloodhound might be
witnessed by the rabbe and the suffering OF some
one OF the poor beings added TO their thirst for
morDiu depravlty II was not two mcnths AFTER
the executions That saw one OF the women. who
was about to become mother, placed between
two boards upon which sat a heavy burly savage,
surrounded ny q dozen soldiers and several ofi-
GERS VINO were trying 70 compel this helpless being
TO confess crime Of robbery which had pre-
Tously investigated and could find nothing That
warranted the belief OF robbery having been
committed Her dead body left there, and
iour days after, wnen the stencil compelled its
burial. IL was found TO have been partly devoured
by dogs. Since that time 10 tho present these poor
creatures nave been subjected 20 ontrages beyond
community such as you live in.
ONLY A FEW LETT
IHeTe are now Dut lew nving, perhaps 30 TO 10
souls, though in 1869 they numbered in all over 800.
some died rom starvation, others from exposure,
while the majority oi them were killed by blood
hounis, for II IS or the sports of these brutes
10 hunt these poor people a. game. | have seen
bodies OF those thus killed whose sex coul. not
be distinguished by reason OF mutllation. An
attempt TO exterminate them was made lew DAYS
ago by the volunteers ana some OF the crew oI the
Tornado. When the Virginius was brought into
tue naroor 1t was made the
OCCASION or GREAT FESTIVITIES,
and liquor lowed freely. Toward midnight party
or three men, With hounds to iunt their victims,
started ior the woods. No one dared to prevent
what IT was known would follow. The next morn
place, and related with pride and pleasure the vio-
lence to which they mad subjected these women
and girls some Of the latter being only 10 years old
BuRYING NINE VICTIMS.
With an associate Official we that afternoon pro-
ceeded into the woods and ordered the burial or
nine, whom we found dead. Seven were suffering
from violence that ] cannot describe one was
black in the face she having been choked to death,
while another had her entire breast bitten OF.
returned sick at heart, unable to render the slight
est assistance, though had been compelled 10 look
on with apparent Indifference.
BY means OF negroes we render them what as
sistance we can. Clothing we cannot send as this
might be identified, but food and medicines we
have so Iar been able SAFELY to send through slaves.
who have more pity for these beings than they
wno once shared the bounty and hospitality Of
those they now DersecuIe.
need not ask you to keep my name to yourself
You know where all
THE PROoF CAN re HAD
of this and other matters. nave not gone into
the matter in the full detail that the case deserves
Ii the people in tue United States should petition
their government to give the moral influence OF
some kind OF protection the money could easily
be had to either take them out OF the country or
munty. In Gods name do what you can tor
humanity.