The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-13
IN PRISON IN HAVANA.
P. c. Oglesby, Formerly of Savannah,
Seized by Cuban Soldiers.

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Seized by Cuban Soldiers.
P. c. Oglesby. formerly proof reade
and compositor on the MORNING News, is
in trouble in Havana.
/ A New York dispatch to the MORNING
! News says Oglesby writes to the World
| that on the night of Oct. 2S he was at
/ tackled by two soldiers in Havana. who
/ rified his pockets, bound his hands be-
| hind his back and took him TO a magis-
/ trate, where they charged him with as
saulting them. Oglesby says he was
| given no trial, but was thrown into the
royal prison, where he suppOses he is
to be held until the authorities get
ready 10 give him trial. He says Harry
Howard of Boston, has been in the same
prison for five months awaiting trial, hav-
ing been put there under exactly the'same
circumstances.
Oglesby says the American consul gen
erals Office win give him no satisfaction.
He says he went 10 Cuba to collect data
for a work upon which he has been en-
gagged for year.
The specific charges against him,
Oglesby says, was "assaulting the mill
tary police
OGLEsBY's LETTER.
Proceeding, Oglesby says: "The sim
pie facts in the case are that on the eve
ming of Oct. 2S, about 10 o'clock, was as
saulted by two soldiers of the Orden Pub
leo, military police, who bound
my arms behind my back: ran
sacked my pockets, dragged me before an
officer, and preferred a charge against
me for assaulting them. BY some means
the fact of my arrest had reached the
American consulate. and about one hour
after my arrival at the prison / was Wis
tied by Spaniard. who informed me that
he was a clerk of the consul general
That functionary took down my state
ment took my passports and babe me
gOod-by. have never heard from him
since, or from the consulate.
A MIxED-UP LOT.
Meanwhile, / am confined in a ward
with twenty-fOur male-factors, whose Of
fences range all the way from fraud to
murder For bed there are soft granite
flags. Twice daily the prisoners are fed
with food that well-bred hog would de-
cline with disdain. There are present
the amount of vermin and filth to be eX-
pected under such circum stances
perhaps if the press of America calls
the attention of the state department to
this outrage, and to the fact that similar
Outrages are frequently committed upon
our citizens visiting Havana, there might
be something done.
AMoTHEs IN THE SAME FIX.
''There is now confined in the same
ward with myself a young American
named Harry Howard, a native of Boston,
who has been waiting trial for five months,
with no prospect of getting one in the near
future. The charge against him is Gag
gression de fuerza armada The fact is
that he defended himself when attacked
by four soldiers.
81 am native of Georgia, 80 years of
age. l am well known in Nashville, Biz
mingham, Chattanooga, Savannah, and
other cities as a printer, proof-reader,
telegraph editor, editorial writer, and all
round newspaper man. I came to Cuba
for the purpose Of obtaining data for a
work 1 have been engaged on for year
past, prosecuting it solely on my own ac-
count"
Oglesby was three years resident of
Savannah He came here from Nashville
He left Savannah year ago and went to
Key West, Fla, and from there to
Havana