The morning call., 1894-08-31
EZETA HELD FAST.
The Guards Around Him
Increased.
is CONFINED TO HIS ROOM.
Marshal Baldwin Afraid of an
Escape.
PAROLE OF HONOR WAS PLEDGED
Windows Barred and Doors Locked
Tightly on the General and
His Companions.
Is CONFINED TO HIS ROOM.
PAROLE OF HONOR WAS PLEDGED

United States Marshal Barry Bald win
has made up his mind that General An
tonic Ezeta has planned TO escape. He
has doubled the guards around him, has
him cooped in room in the California
Hotel where he is denied to visitors, the
doors are locked and the windows barred.
No condemned felon was ever more closely
guarded.
And yet Marshal Baldwin is fretting
and fussing continually. Since the exiled
San Salvadoran has been placed in his
custody it is evident TO all that Grover
Cleveland's excitable appointee has aged
immensely. That air of vacuity which
had hitherto lowered on the face of the
Marshal like a duck on an autumn lake
has vanished. In its place is the gloom of
fear and the wrinkles of dire forebOding.
There are crowsfeet in the corners of his
eyes and painful droOp to his lips. He
is distinctly uneasy.
When General Ezeta was first placed In
the custody of the Marshal it was under
stood on all sides that he was to be cour-
teOusly treated as became one of his
prominent station, and that while a care
full surveillance was to be kept and no
chance left for escape all efforts should be
directed to making the prisoner as COM
Portable as possible. With this under
standing the general and his companions
were allowed to take rooms at the Califor-
MIA Hotel. at their own expense, being
guarded constantly, however, by two depu-
ties. He was notified in a general way
that he would be allowed the liberty of the
corridor on the sixth floor under the watch
full eye of deputy, This was Of course,
with the idea of giving him a chance to
exercise. On his own part and for his
companions General Ezeta gave his parole
of honor as soldier and a gentleman that
no effort would be made to escape.
This arrangement went along without a
clash until recently. He walked the cor
ridOrs and was courteous and pleasant
with visitors. chatting freely with those
who spoke his own language. His COM
panioDs in arms were equally comfort
able, and peace and harmony dwelt in
their quarters. Calmly the lives Of the
prisoners we're rolling on awaiting the day
day of happy delivery which they so con-
fGentlY expected
Then the change. Tuesday the general
was notified that he would be required to
keep himself closely 10 room $50. being al
lowed TO leave it only at mealtimes for
room COS. where the dining-table was set.
There was to be no more exercising in the
corridors. he explained that be thought
this rather peculiar order, considering
that his word as a soldier had been placed
that no attempt would be made to escape.
His attorney eXpoStulated in the same
hnf fo IN
general has since been confined. An extra
guard has been placed inside with him,
the door locked on the outside and another
deputy placed there to see to it that no
attempt is made 10 sortie through that.
In the dining-roOm and in 6C6. next to it,
where Attorney Quesada sleeps, more
wonderful precautions have been taken
the windows have been actually fastened
down and cannot be raised without the
permission of the Marshal. This last
move is evidently the outcome of fear
that the imprisoned exile will take wing,
fly ous of the window and away 1t is
particularly hard on Attorney Quesada.
he sleeps in the room at night and, under
the conditions, must swelter without the
hope Of zephyr
No reason for keeping these windows
sealed at night, with EZeta closely guarded
in another room far away, has been as
signed. 1t may be that Marshal Baldw
has bean studying up on theosophy and by
peculiar jumbo of ideas may figure that
Ezeta's astral body might be projected into
the physical clay of bis attorney and
gently float on the midnight streets of San
Francisco for some inscrutable purpose.
Or maybe it's the parole of honor. Mar
shall Baldwin had probably never heard of
such thing un til General Ezeta gave it to
him. At least if he had he failed to COM
prehend the force when coming from a
soldier, and didn't know that it has proved
more effective than bolts and bars and
guards and locks in keeping prisoners
close. For soldier to break it, so the uu-
written and the military laws point out.
is to lose caste and what is more dear to
him than life ana station, honor. That
was evidently the spirit in which it was
given. General EZeta. feeling confident
of a speedy conclusion in his favor wished
to set the Marshal at ease once and for all
that he would make no attempt to avoid
an appearance in court when the time
came. He didn't wish to pain the Mar
shaPs feelings by calling to his mind that
it would be utterly foolish for him TO
. escape had he the chance: that the arm OF
the United States If it wished him could
as easily grasp him IN Timbuctoo as in San
Francisco. He tactfully refrained from
wounding the official dignity of Mr. Bald.
win aud gave him. as from soldier to
captor. the word of honor, never to be
doubted, never to be broken
Marshal Baldwin has ignored, IL he
knows, its significance. Or. maybe be
thinks it runs out as terms of Office do, and
has had midnight visions of EZsta and his
faithful followers jumping from sixth-story
windows. or descending from fre-escapes
and that sort Of thing. AT any rate, be
now has the exiles cooped up like sardine.
in box. There is no chance of escape
were one intended. And yet the Marsha
doesn't appear contented. There is nj
telling what he may do yet. Plainly