New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-08-15
SIX WEEKS IN PRISON.
TRENCHERY OF FORMER FRIEND.
INvE?r0ATING THE CONDUCT OF BRITISH
CONSUL IN MEXICO.

INvE:T0ATING THE CONDUCT OF BRITISH
CONSUL Iy MEXICO
F. b. Bliss. Englishman who mas apartments
temporarily at the Grenoblc, in fiysevonthst, has
Just returned from long stay in Mexico and be tells
n remarkable story about the conduct Of one OF the
rep,vsenstives Of the English Government at the
Mexican capital during tho time three British subjects
wers In iai there. And the outcome of the affair."
Mr. Bliss SAYS. will be that the representative will
be asked 20 resign before long The story Is as
follows:
The Rev T. d. Sherlock. the minister connected
with the English Legation at Mexico lives In brai
tiu country home at Coyoc about twelve miles
from the Mexican capital. He is bachelor, and a
man OF considerable wealth, havins inherited
comfortable fortune the death of his mother
During lie first week In July Sutton wyman, j. H.
Clinchen ana Douglas Crosby the guests OF
Mr. Sherlock. They are men OF wealth
and have good family connections abroad
one moonlight night rabbit hunting expedition was
proposed and the three guests and their host started
for the fields. The hunters separated after time.
Mr.. Sherlock and Mr. Wyman were tn. first to return
home. half hour afterward Mr.. Chlnchen came
in with several rabbits. Mr.. Crosby however, did not
return and after an hours the three men, be-
coming nxious about him. started 10 look Tor him.
After q long search they found him living neer IA
fence with wound IN hls chest. They carried the
wounded to the minister's house. and therc nc
was tenderly card for for two days when ne died
Mr. Crosby as soon his friends carried him to
the minister's house. explained that his gun had aeci-
dentaly been discharged when he was attempting 10
Get over fence He perfectly rational during
the two days OF his Illness before his denh and be
made a deposition TO the effect t!at it was his own
carelessnes that caused the accident But no'"th-
standing the fact that the four men were the BEST Oh
friends and tina, all the circumstances together win
the deposition, went show that the man was acci
dentally wounded Messrs. Sherlock, Wyman and
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penitenary of the city OF Mexico, for six weeks. and
as the Mexican law deals severely with prisoners
charged with murder the men were paced III solitary
confinement for II large part OF that time
The Mexican authorities did not seem anxious to
impnson the men but lionel Cardin, the British
Consul In the city of Mexico, who appears to have
exer,et more influence than usual during the ab,
ssnce of sir Spencer ST. john the English Minister
Induced the local authorities TO accuse the three
men OF murder and have them placed In jail.
Once In y Mexican prison. II is most difficult to
get out and it proved In the case OF Mr. Sherlock
and bis friends. IL would not have been such
hard matter the English representative had not
Jeen 90 hostile At hrst II not known by the
English American residents Of the Mexican csmuu
mat Cardin not willing and anxious 10 heip
the prisoners out OF their dinicuty. but when The
English and American rends Of the prisoners urged
him 10 use his influence to assist In securing Their
release he declined to himself and IT was sub
seouen,ly learned that the not only declined
to try TO get prisoners out but that he actually
brought about their arrest and WAS the one obstacle
In the way Of their release
Mr.. sherlock, in speaking Of the affair, after me
Mexican authorities had 10 the conclusion that
they were beng msled and had released him. said
An enforced incarceration Of six weeks Is bad enough
In ITSELF but 1t is doubly gnevous when one reject"
that IL been brought about BY the piemcdltsted
treachery Of a previously well-trusted friend" IL ap
pears that the British representative and the Kew
MIR Sherlock bad been the best Of friends up W
short ums before the death Of Mr. Crosby The men,
Il Is understood, had had o misunderstanding iew
eayy before tie accident and when he saw al oP
portuny to make II unpleasant for the misster and
bis guests Cardln stopped To treachcry 70 90 So Ac
counts Of accident and Of the death OF br crosby
were published IN many OF the newspapers n England
and America but the news OF the arrest and lmpns0h
nent OF the three did not get outside OF Mexico.
as the prisoners friends used the! Influence 20 keep
the disgrace Of the affair from getting abriad
Al London by cabls ate: the mer had been IN Jail
nvo weeks, and he called on The state authorities IN
England who in turn teegrsphcd u the brtish rep
resentatyr who had been most active In keeping the
men behind bars. To his influence 10 secure their
release.
An investigation of the affair Is being made at at
Mexico at present. and In a short time when Dir
Spencer 81. John returns to the Legal0n, IL IL ex-
pected that CaIdins Official career will come to
sudden and ignomlnOus end