The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-03-02
THE OFFICIAL JOURNAL
OF THE
CITY and COUNTY of DALLAS.
COOKED.
The Story of General CHARLES James
Leo Cooke, Cuban Chiefiain.
From the 1t. Louis Globe pemocrat.

From the ~. Louis Globe democrat
An individual claiming the high
sounding name of General Charles Jane,
Lee Cooke, "of the Cuban army" hai
been in Texas working upon the credu
lily of the unsophsticated Long Horns
lie managed to work himself into print
by giving reporter of the Galveston
Ntms n most extraordinary sketch of his
career-hair-breadth escapes and all
while lighting to free the gem of the
Antilles from tho clutch of The Spanish
butcher. And when he left Galveston
he caused TO he circulated the report
that he was en- route for Washington to
confer with the State Department re-
garding the Cuban affairs.
But it seems that before calling on
Secretary Fish he dropped in ON san
Antonio, and for certain little idiosyn-
cracles, made manifest during his stay,
received notice from the Express, of
that city more extended than hatter-
ing, In other words the impression he
left was bad, and by general consent he
was dubbed beat Just what his
transactions in San Antonio were, does
not appear, but that they were of II
character making him legally answera-
able is clear, if circumstantial evidence
may be accepted as competent to prove
the same, THE General found it con-
genial to leave Texas for the Nouh-in
finding cause for his haste, one should
not leave out the consideration altogeth-
er of his desire to be "up and doing for
the Cuban cause--and, as the evidence
goes to show, arrived in st. Louis about
February II. On the l4th inst, the
following letter was mailed from here to
the editor Of the San Antonio Express.
EAST ST. Louis, ILL.,, February II,
lSIo,-Editor of San Antonio Express,
San Antonio, BeXarC County, Texas: SIR
Deeming it of interest to you, ! beg
leave to notify you of the death of Gas
his papers show him to be citizen of
your city, General Charles James Lee
Cooke, formerly Of the Cuban army.
He died at the Southern Hotel, in this
city, of brain fever, cmanating as his NJ.
D. said, from disappointed love affair
He will be buried by the military au-
thorltles here Yours, very truly,
GEORGE RoBBINs.
P. 81 am from Dallas Texas.
If the letter does not satisfactorily
show that "the General" was fraud, it
shows that e. R,-George Robbins, Tor
grand rascal) was, and as Robbids and
Cooke are pronounced by the Express
to be one and the same person, the re,
suit is the same either way, The pre-
sumption is both strong and reasonable
that Cooke had been caught in some il
legal transaction, and having to flee the
country made it point to dic-on pa
per-of a broken heart, to stop pursuit,
should it be contemplated by those
whom he had wronged The letter car
ries upon its face the strongest evidence
of fraud, and, if not written to screen
an Illicit transaction, was intended to
Now, for further proof. According to
the letter, General Cooke" died in !
East Saint Louis at the Southern Hotel, |
some time sprior to February 1.-THE
date of the letter-whereas on the l4th |
uay Oh fcDrualy, ne wrote 10 tne SOUTH |
ern Hotel, Saint Louis, from Chicago,
asking that all letters coming to his adj
dress be forwarded to the town on the
lakes. In accordance with such request
several letters were sent him. He was
never registered at the Southern Hotel,
never died at that hostelry; and as the
East Saint Louis military authorities"
could not be found Short of micro
scopic investigation, it is safe to say they
did not turn out to do the Cuban hero
honor. On the oath instant, telegram
came to the Southern for the Genera"
from f. Simon, of San Antonio, saying
that valuable documents had been sent
to Galveston; but, as the hero had not
been u guest Of the hotel, the stamp was
not advanced to forward the dispatch to
Chicago. Whether the General has
San Antonioed any one is not yet
known, but revelations may be antici-