The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-09-06
THE. EzETA PUZZLE.
Prisoners May Be Freed on the Mer-
its of the Evidence Presented
Against Them BY the Government
of San Salvador.

| of San Salvador.
| San Francisco, Sept. 5.-The govern
ment of San Salvador has exhausted
! it's stock of dispositions and seems to
have oral testimony to offer in the ex-
tradition proceedings now pending in
the United States district court here
against General Antonio Ezeta and his
fellow refugees. The dispositions pre-
scented so far have not been entirely
satisfactory to the prosecution, mas
much as a great deal of the testimony
has been stricken out under the ruling
of the court that the American law rel
alive to the admissibility of evidence
must obtain during the proceedings.
The first deposition relates to the
killing of Thomas Canas, teamster
whom General Ezeta and Juan Glen
fuegos encountered during their flight
to the sea. The second accuses General
lCienfuegos and Manuel Cassin with
shooting at Andres Amaya, with whom
Cassin was at war. The third deposit
ton is in connection with the forcible
taking of 1854 from the International
bank, of Salvador and Nicaragua, by
General Ezeta.
Then came a long accusation charg-
ing the refugees with shooting Cesar
Alfaro and the hanging of Casino
Henriquez, revolutionists who had OPP
posed Ezeta's cause. Other charges of
burning houses and shooting other per-
sons were brought out.
But very soon after the converting of
the court this morning counsel for the
defense announced that they had no
further dispositions at hand.
DR.. Calderon, the local consul from
San Salvador. was now sworn. He
testified that important documents in
tended as evidence against the accused
had been dispatched to him and would
arrive on the next steamer from Cen
trail America. Upon this showing, the
prosecution moved for a continuance
of the case. Judge Morrow refused to
grant a continuance. The defense then
moved for a dismissal of the charges,
asserting that sufficient evidence to
hold the prisoners had not been ad-
duced. This motion. too, was over
ruled. The defense. after some delay,
tiate their plea, lack of jurisdiction
of the United States courts.
Commander Thomas, of the gunboat
Bennington, was called to the witness
stand.
1t was announced that the intention
of the defense was to prove that
the prisoners had really been kid
Iidppeu I1ltO Tic GUILTY., lIelT demands
to be permitted to leave the gunboat
at La. Libertad and Acapulco having
been refused. and that they could not
be considered within the Jurisdiction
of the court, inasmuch as they had
been forcibly and Illegally landed upon
American soil.
Commander Thomas testified brief
ly as to the incidents of the
rebellion in San Salvador but was
prevented from stating why he had de-
tanned the refugees on board the Ben
lfington. Judge Morrow finally ruled
that the province of the court was to
consider the prisoners within it's juris-
diction. and not to consider the means
by which they had got there. In other
words. the court decided not to go be-
hind the returns of the United States
marshal.
This means that unless resort is had
to habeas corpus proceedings in anoth-
er court the prisoners will be tried on
the merits of the evidence presented
against them by the government of
San Salvador.