The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-09-13
FlEIl On THE STAND.
., rsstifes in His Own Be.
half at San Francisco.
ocnIyG OF DISPOSITIONS ENDED

I'll. Case VIII be Decided According to
evidence Unless Habeas Corpus
n-,,eedings Are Begun-Depositions
~, Entirely satisfactory.
re,vrrsco oeptember z. - The
.,,.,+ of san Salvador has ex-
-''s i-- stock of dispositions, and
l'' have no oral testimony to offer
'',4a.vrradition proceedings now pend
j." ~ ~ aa United States District Court
.'- ,.,o,n.t General Ezeta and his fell
! ~, The dispositions presented
=. have not been entirely satisfactory
.,r. prosecution, inasmuch as great
I,,ror testimony has been stricken out
.I,rtberuIing Of the court that Amerl-
law relating to admissibility of evil
,.... ,onst obtain during the proceed
wv. The first deposition relates to the
L;T;,, Of Thomas Canas, a teamster
.I.n, General Ezeta and Juan Glen
t S"r encountered during their flight to
. .'' .aa The second accuses General
,ae and Manuel Cassin with
otoDt;ng at Andres Amaya, with whom
r,ysin was at war. The third deposit
,;n, i in connection with the forcible
t,L,nr n S. 5S4 from the International
Gsrtof salvador and Nicaragua by Gen
ar9I Fzeta. Then came a long accusation
cfsraipg the refugees with shooting
Cassr lIfaro and the hanging of Cas-
s:ro Uenriouez, reyOlutionists who had
onnos4l Eztta's cause. Other charges
II Burning houses and shooting other
npr,ons were brought out.
Very soon after the converting of the
court This morniag counsel for the prose-
rrtion announced that it had no further
dqnositions at hand. DIR. Calderon, the
heal Consul for San Salvador, was sworn.
He testified that documents intended as
evidence against the accused had been
DISPATCHED to him, and would arrive on
fine next steamer from Central America.
Upon this showing the prosecution
moved for a continuance Of the case.
Judge Morrow refused to grant a con-
tipuance The defense then moved for
dismissal OF the charges, asserting that
sufficient evidence to hold the prisoners
had not been adduced. This motion,
too, was overruled. The defense after
some delay decided to put in evidence to
substantiate their plea of lack of juris
dicton OF the United States courts.
Commander Thomas of the gunboat
Bennington was called to the witness
stand. 1t was the announced intention
OF the defense to prove that the prison
ers had really been kidnapped into the
country, their 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 briefly as TO the incl
dents Of the rebellion in Salvador, but
was prevented from stating why he had
detained the refugees on board the Ben
nlngton. Judge Morrow finally ruled
that the province of the court was to
consider the prisoners within its juris-
dlcton and not to consider the means by
which they had reached there. In other
words, the court decided not to go be-
Mnd the returns of the United States
Marshal. This means that, unless re-
sort Is had to habeas corpus proceedings
IN another court, the prisoners will be
iHed on the merits of the evidence pre-
sfnted against them by the government
OF San Salvador.
tzeta was called as witness in his
own behalf He denied the charge that
ne caused Henriquez to be hanged, and
SAID that he did not know of his death
u4ilI informed OF it by his officers. Ezeta
aided however, that he thought Henri
qoez had been well hanged, because he
", WAS rebel. He said that he killed
l u Canas in self-defense, and that
Tue money taken from the Bank of Mic
ar3Sua was merely borrowed to pay his
So1erS. General Colcho was also ex-
anInet, but there are no specific charges
"sAIilst HIN. The case went over.